Graphics rendering pipeline without any external graphical dependencies running fully on CPU.

• W/S - camera movement.
• Z/C - model up/down movement.
• E/Q - model yaw rotation.
• R/F - model pitch rotation.
• 4/5/6/8 - light movement.
• 9/7 - light movement closer/further.

• You can move around.
• You can rotate a model and move a point light.
• You can load and render obj file including materials.
• Phong reflection model.
• Blinn/Phong shading.
• Texture mapping.
• Normal mapping.
• Z-buffering.
• Render to texture.
• Rendering process emulating standard GPU pipeline.

There are several stages mimicking standard pipeline.

The stage itself does nothing (yet) but let you set up the vertex and index buffers.

Vertex shader move vertices from model space to clip (projection) space. My renderer is right handed in model space, world space and view space and left handed in clip space.

From the vertices, the triangles are built in here. It is important for input obj mesh to be in CCW orientation. Culling and clipping happens here too. In a classical pipeline, the culling is more like preliminary using flags but in mine the triangle is removed if it fails normal test.

Transformation to NDC and screen space, barycentric interpolation, depth test and pixel shader invocation for all related fragments. In classical pipeline, the depth test in rasterizer is in a form of early one which can be disabled based on following pixel shader procesing or via configuration. In my pipeline, the depth test here is final without any more checks later.

This part is parallelized via std::for_each with std::execution::par_unseq.

Every pixel is processed here. Texture is applied including normal map and lit according to Phong model. The material information can be supplemented via mlt file.

Final stage where pixel is written to an output buffer.

The project is built on tPixelGameEngine for basic window handling.