Replace the megakernel @compute entry with five wavefront kernels sharing one module, connected by GPU ray/hit/payload buffers and a GPU-driven indirect bounce loop: GENERATE -> (PREP -> TRACE -> SHADE) x maxDepth -> RESOLVE - TRACE contains zero user code (pure _rtwTraverseTlas/Blas, opaque-only). - PREP publishes dispatchWorkgroupsIndirect args from the live ray count; the indirect-args buffer lives in its own bind group so it is never bound read-write in the same dispatch that consumes it as INDIRECT. - New emit/accumulate API: rtEmitPrimaryRay / rtEmitRay / rtAccumulate, plus an optional user Resolve stage (tonemap hook; identity by default). - Per-pass WfParams via a dynamic-offset uniform ring (curIsA/bounce vary between passes within one submit). - Payload-typed wfPayload binding emitted in the codegen region after the user's struct Payload; payload travels with each ray (2*W*H slots). - Request maxBufferSize / maxStorageBufferBindingSize / maxComputeWorkgroups PerDimension so the W*H-sized work buffers fit past the 128MB baseline. VulkanTriangle ported to the new API and renders bit-identical to the megakernel baseline at maxDepth=1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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| closesthit.glsl | ||
| closesthit.wgsl | ||
| main.cpp | ||
| miss.glsl | ||
| miss.wgsl | ||
| project.cpp | ||
| raygen.glsl | ||
| raygen.wgsl | ||
| README.md | ||
VulkanTriangle
The minimal ray-traced example. Renders a single static triangle through
vkCmdTraceRaysKHR. No UI.
What it shows
Device::Initialize()+Window+ swapchain bring-up.- A
DescriptorHeapVulkansized for one image + one buffer slot, with slot ranges allocated via the bump-allocator API (AllocateImageSlots,AllocateBufferSlots). - A
PipelineRTVulkanbuilt from raygen / miss / closesthit SPIR-V shaders compiled at build time. Mesh::Buildconstructing a BLAS andRenderingElement3D::BuildTLASthe per-frame TLAS.- Direct descriptor writes via
vkWriteResourceDescriptorsEXTfor the swapchain views and TLAS device addresses. RTPass{&pipeline}plugged intowindow.passes— the canonical way to add ray tracing to a window in this library.
It's the smallest sensible test of the bindless VK_EXT_descriptor_heap
- ray-tracing path.
Run
cd examples/VulkanTriangle
crafter-build -r
You should see a 1280×720 window with a triangle filling roughly the centre.
Notes
raygen.glsl's traceRayEXT call is currently commented out — the
example exercises the dispatch and imageStore paths only. Uncomment
it to actually trace into the BLAS.