Nova is a collection of libraries for primarily graphics focused application development
Common utilities, collections, macros, and 3rd party libraries.
An experimental Vulkan GPGPU library.
- Combines Resizable-BAR with VK_EXT_host_image_copy to elimate nearly all host -> device staging
- No renderpass/framebuffer management - just start rendering
[TODO]Retain tile-based rendering optimizations via VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read and VK_EXT_shader_tile_image
- No explicit descriptor management
- Image and sampler descriptors handled automatically
- All buffers handled with buffer device addresses
- Simply request bindless descriptors and pass into shaders as data
- No pipeline management
- Hash'n'cache supporting any mix of pipelines, pipeline libraries, and shader objects
- Sensible comprehensive default state
[TODO]Allow static state to be requested for potential optimizations
- SBT table generation with sensible defaults
- Build and update supplementary hit group table on CPU or GPU
- Acceleration structure builder for building/updating/compacting/querying acceleration structures
- Vulkan 1.3
(1.2)Descriptor Indexing(1.2)Timeline Semaphores(1.2)Buffer Device Addresses(1.3)Synchronization 2(1.3)Dynamic Rendering
- Full coherent host access to device heap (Resizable BAR or similar)
- VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library
- VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer
- VK_EXT_host_image_copy
- VK_EXT_shader_object
- VK_EXT_mesh_shader
- VK_KHR_fragment_shader_barycentric
- VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock
- VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline
- VK_KHR_acceleration_structure
- VK_KHR_ray_query
- VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder
- VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch
Simple, work-in-progress immediate mode drawing library
- Procedural antialiased rounded quads
- Basic text rendering
Tiny SQLite database wrapper
- (Lot's of work to be done here)
Windowing and input library
- Planned cross-platform support (Windows only currently)
[TODO]Extensible input system
Simple ImGui backend for Nova::RHI and Nova::Window