VQE v0.1.0 - Hello Triangle!

Release Notes

First version release of the modern VQEngine: v0.1.0 - Hello Triangle!

Features

Multi-threading

• 3 Independent threads
  • Main Thread : Handles Windows events and buffers the events for consumption in other threads, ensuring seamless application behavior
  • Update Thread : Simulates scene, prepares data for the Render Thread, doesn't run ahead more frames than the back buffer has.
  • Render Thread: Picks up scene data from the Update Thread and issues draw commands
• Thread Pools as worker threads for the Update and Render thread for parallelizing workloads, scaled by available threads on the system.

DXGI Window Management & D3D12 Rendering

• 3 Display Modes supported
  • Windowed
  • Borderless Fullscreen
  • Exclusive Fullscreen
• Multiple windows supported on multiple monitors
• Alt+Enter Fullscreen transitions for both Borderless & Exclusive modes
• Hello World Triangle rendering in D3D12 with synchronized Update & Render threads

Utilities

• Logging to File and a separate Console window
• Command-line parameters
• Configurable settings through EngineSettings.ini file in Data/ folder next to the executable
  • Set resolution
  • Set preferred monitor
  • Set fullscreen window
  • Set Debug window properties (visible, resolution, fullscreen, preferred monitor)

Automated Build & Testing

• Build/PackageEngine.bat to sync dependencies, generate project files, build in release mode and package the binaries for distribution
• Build/GenerateProjectFiles.bat to sync dependencies and generate project files
• Scripts/TestVQE.bat to test run VQE.exe for a specified number of frames (1000 default)

Known Issues

• Memory leak on Window events (resize + fullscreen). This'll be fixed on v0.2.0.