Toaster is a work-in-progress game/graphics engine framework that can facilitate 3D rendering. Unlike previous iterations of Toaster, Toaster-3.0 is designed to have a much less restrictive API, letting you control exactly what you want to do, while also being easy to use. This is because it is designed in a C-style C++ way that prioritises data locality and cache efficiency over heavy OOP classes and inheritance, thereby decoupling itself
- Data-oriented GPU API instead of highly coupled OOP.
- Aimed at being very CPU cache-friendly, so a lot of operations are able to be executed in batches
- Utilisation of Vulkan 1.4 Descriptor heaps and fully bindless rendering architecture, eliminating the need for pipelines and descriptor sets.
- Orbo
- Have Windows. I do not plan on ever supporting Linux or macOS...
- In previous versions, you would have needed the Vulkan SDK. However, due to Toaster dynamically loading to Vulkan at
runtime Via Volk, you technically don't need it. Although, I believe that validation layers may not work without it.
Importantly, your Vulkan
version has to be >= 1.4 -> https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home as well as having the latest graphics drivers for your system (mostly because of vk_EXT_descriptor_heap) - Git clone with
git clone https://github.com/Deliverooo/Toaster.git
If you want to install Toaster as the SDK (you probably should), then run install.bat (This will take a while
because all dependencies are gathered Via fetchcontent). That will install the Toaster SDK in your
C:/Program Files/ToasterSDK/ directory. Then, to use the generated CMake targets, simply add the bin
directory in the SDK to your System environment varible list.
From here, you can call find_package(Toaster CONFIG REQUIRED) in your CMake projects and use Toaster's subsystems (in CMake the targets are: Toaster::ToastMath, Toaster:: ToastOS, Toaster::ToastLib, Toaster::ToastGPU, Toaster::ToastRender, Toaster::ToastKernel and
Toaster::ToastAsset)
- Even more work on the GPU API to make it essentially a whole library ecosystem
- Possible integration of KTX2 textures and GLTF models/animations to achieve even more peak performance
- Improvements to the TSM (Toaster Math) library to support SIMD without using DirectXMath (I don't like Microsoft's APIs)