Black Engine 1.0 is a game engine that supports multiple backends. The goal is to consolidate all of the stand-alone renderers I’ve written into a single project.

In progress support: Direct3D12, Vulkan 1.4, software rasterizer, software ray-tracer. The following video has an overview of the current features:

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DirectX 12

Gaussian Splatting

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Skeletal Animation

5/18/2025

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Deferred Lighting and Shadows ☀️

3/23/2025 – Cascaded Shadow Maps

3/8/2025 – 1 Directional light, 1 ambient light, 400 point lights

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Mesh Particles

3/5/2025

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Breakables ⛓️‍💥

2/28/2025 – Crate modeled, rigged, and cut up in Blender. Black Engine animates the bones with euler integration.

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Software Ray-Tracing:

Supports Direct lighting/shadowing, ambient occlusion, reflections

Software Rasterization:

Vertex/pixel shading and rasterization are done in C++ on the CPU. Supports screen space reflection/refraction.