A custom game engine with OpenGL rendering.

I started this project to develop my understanding of real-time graphics. Other students on my course joined the project, while my focus remains the graphics.

A shader diorama featuring Nightbird's shadow mapping and Blinn-Phong lighting model

I chose to take the opportunity to continue to develop Nightbird, while the assignment expected the use of an existing graphics engine.

Why is the real-time graphics industry adopting low-level graphics APIs such as Vulkan over high-level APIs like OpenGL?

I am researching the adoption of low-level graphics APIs by the real-time graphics industry.

A custom offline ray traced renderer. Currently developing a command-line interface.

In future a Blender add-on will be developed to render scenes.