Vulkan GPU-Driven Renderer

Built a Vulkan renderer in C++ from scratch, starting from a basic triangle and core engine systems (ECS, mesh loading, etc.). Extended it with three main rendering features:

• GPU-driven rendering: a compute shader generates VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommands per frame, rendering 636K objects in a single draw call at 60 FPS
• Visibility buffer: a pre-pass rasterizes triangle + draw IDs into a single uint32 per pixel (4 bytes/pixel), with a compute shader reconstructing attributes via manual barycentric interpolation with perspective correction
• Frustum culling: plane extraction from the view-projection matrix on the CPU and then a compute shader culling objects in parallel before writing to the indirect buffer

Cross platform (Linux/Windows), shaders written in Slang.

Self study project for block B and C of my third year at BUAS (students choose a project to work on alongside main coursework).