angelocarly / BURN

Generative art Vulkan engine

BURN

Minimal C++ algorithmic art renderer using Vulkan. Made for personal art projects.

Goals of this project

This project is a next iteration of my previous generative art engine..

What I learned from developing it:

• Managing many git submodules is hell.
• Vulkan-hpp and VMA-hpp aren't as useful as I thought.
• I actually would like swapchain resizing.
• I didn't experience much extra usefulness from the layer above Vulkan.
• Presenter framework was nice, but unnecessary. Splitting into modules is nice though.

Building

Firstly, install the required system dependencies:

sudo apt-get install -y libspdlog-dev libglfw3-dev glslang-tools libglm-dev

Secondly, install the Vulkan SDK and set the path environment variables:

export VULKAN_SDK=/path/to/vulkan/sdk
# Required for Mac/MoltenVK
export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/path/to/vulkan/sdk/etc/vulkan/icd.d

Then build BURN:

git clone https://github.com/angelocarly/BURN.git
git submodule update --init --recursive
cd BURN && mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Dependencies

• spdlog (unused) - Fast header only logging library.
• glfw (unused) - Cross platform window and input library.
• glm (unused) - OpenGL Math Library, wonderful to use imo.
• Vulkan SDK (unused) - Low level graphics API.
• VulkanMemoryAllocator (unused) - Easy to integrate Vulkan memory allocator.
• Dear Imgui (unused) - Lightweight, feature full gui library.
• stbi (unused) - PNG library
• ImGuiFileDialog (unused) - File dialog written for Dear Imgui