The main idea of creating this engine was to build some voxel engine using OptiX SDK and CMake with vcpkg. I just wanted to learn how to use CMake properly and have some fun with voxels, so the result isn't optimized at all. During implementation I found (and read about it) that using hardware-accelerated ray tracing doesn't perform well with voxels and procedurally generated geometry in general, so I didn't even try to optimize the result. In terms of performance, there are some better techniques like building a mesh from voxels or tracing rays in a fragment shader.
- OpenGL image and text display layer
- Built-in pixel-style font
- Simple user menu
- First person camera
- OptiX AI Denoiser
- Modifiable world generation and render distance
- Ray-marched volumetric clouds
- Procedurally-generated world
- Separate threads for background world/acceleration structures updates
