ConfettiFX/The-Forge
The Forge
The Forge ist ein Low-Level-Toolkit für den Bau hochperformanter Grafik-Engines und Anwendungen über Desktop-, Mobil- und Konsolenplattformen hinweg. Es bietet ein plattformübergreifendes Engine-Framework und einen dedizierten Shader-Compiler, der eine einzelne Quelle in zielspezifische Sprachen für verschiedene Grafik-APIs und Hardware übersetzt.
Das Projekt beinhaltet einen GPU-Speicher- und Ressourcenmanager, der einheitliche Root-Signaturen für das Resource-Binding nutzt, sowie eine Raytracing-Rendering-Pipeline, die hardwarebeschleunigte Ray- und Path-Tracing-Abfragen implementiert. Das State-Management wird durch ein hochperformantes Entity-Component-System gehandhabt, das Daten und Logik in diskrete Komponenten organisiert.
Breite Funktionsbereiche decken GPU-Leistungsüberwachung mittels Hardware-Breadcrumbs und Micro-Profiling, plattformübergreifendes Input-Handling für diverse Peripheriegeräte und ein Animationssystem für Skelett-Playback und Blending ab. Das Framework unterstützt zudem asynchrones Ressourcenladen, Variable Rate Shading und Non-Uniform Resource Indexing.
Das Toolkit bietet Automatisierung für Echtzeit-Iterationen, einschließlich Live-Shader-Rekompilierung und der Fähigkeit, dynamische Bibliotheken zur Laufzeit neu zu laden.
Features
- Cross-Platform Engines - Acts as a low-level toolkit for building high-performance 3D engines that run across consoles, mobile, and desktop from one codebase.
- Entity Component Systems - Implements a high-performance entity component system for efficient game state management and data-oriented processing.
- GPU Resource Management - Provides a low-level system for allocating hardware memory and binding shader resources via unified root signatures.
- Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing - Implements a rendering pipeline using dedicated silicon for hardware-accelerated ray and path tracing.
- Ray Tracing Query Execution - Implements a cross-platform rendering pipeline for hardware-accelerated ray and path tracing queries.
- Cross-Platform Shader Compilers - Provides a dedicated shader compiler that transforms unified source code into platform-specific binaries for multiple graphics APIs.
- Multi-API Shader Compilations - Implements a unified workflow where shader code is written once and compiled into native formats for multiple graphics APIs.
- Shader Language Conversions - Provides utilities to convert single shader sources into target-specific languages for consoles, mobile, and desktop platforms.
- GPU Memory Allocators - Includes a specialized GPU memory manager and allocators tailored to specific platform hardware limits.
- GPU Rendering and Compute APIs - Provides a high-efficiency API for GPU-accelerated rendering and compute tasks, including ray tracing and variable rate shading.
- Hot Code Reloading - Supports updating source code during runtime by reloading dynamic libraries without requiring a full application restart.
- Extension Hot Reloaders - Allows updating application logic during runtime by reloading compiled dynamic libraries without restarting the process.
- Shader Recompilation - Features a server-driven system that triggers automatic shader recompilation during execution for rapid visual iteration.
- Asynchronous Asset Loading - Ships a system to load textures, buffers, and geometry data asynchronously from disk or memory to prevent runtime stuttering.
- Variable Rate Shading - Implements an optimization that shades different parts of a render target at varying resolutions based on image gradients.
- Shader Variant Compilation - Generates unified binaries containing multiple shader versions based on specific hardware feature flags.
- Shader Binding Managers - Implements a global registry of resources grouped by update frequency to eliminate the need for runtime shader reflection.
- Shader Resource Binders - Implements a system for associating textures and buffers with shaders using compile-time resource indices.
- Skeletal Animation Systems - Implements a multi-threaded skeletal animation system for playing back and blending animations and baked physics.
- Non-Uniform Resource Indexing - Implements divergent resource indexing using lane masking and platform extensions to handle non-uniform indices safely.
- Real-Time Graphics Iteration - Enables updating source code and recompiling shaders during runtime to speed up the visual development and testing cycle.
- Static Resource Indexing - Implements a system to link textures and buffers to shaders using static indices to eliminate runtime string or hash lookups.
- Unified Root Signatures - Utilizes a unified root signature for all shaders to minimize pipeline switching overhead and simplify resource binding.
- GPU Performance Monitoring - Ships a profiling system utilizing hardware breadcrumbs for crash reports and micro-profiling for execution analysis.
- Cross-Device Input Handlers - Offers a consistent interface for processing input and gestures from diverse peripherals across all supported platforms.
- Platform-Specific Input Bridging - Maps native OS events from diverse peripherals into a unified internal format for consistent cross-platform input handling.
- Texture Samplers - Provides a standardized set of cross-platform functions for sampling read-only and read-write textures.
- Engines and Frameworks - Cross-platform rendering framework.
- Graphics Libraries - Cross-platform rendering framework for major consoles and platforms.
