Synapse Engine Roadmap

Tracking the current development directions, active tasks, and future ideas for the engine.

Ideas / Backlog

Render Graph: Automatic DAG

Build an automatic Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) for image and memory barriers.

Global Pipeline State Tracking

Implement a robust system for global pipeline state tracking.

DirectX 12 Backend

Complete DirectX 12 rendering backend implementation.

Shader Tangent/Normal Bits

Configure and fix Tangent Dx/Normal bit settings within the shader pipeline.

Skybox / HDRI Support

Add rendering support for skyboxes and HDRI environment maps.

Subgroup Size Requirement

Enforce Vulkan subgroup size requirement to strictly 32.

Device Generated Commands

Modern GPU-driven rendering approach using Vulkan DGC.

CMake & Linux Support

Migrate build system to CMake to introduce cross-platform Linux support.

Nvidia ReBAR Toggle

Add functionality to enable/disable Nvidia Resizable BAR.

Work Graph Abstraction

In Progress

Triangle/Convex collider visualization

Done

Ecs Parent-Child Hierarchy

Implement parent-child relationships with flat tree indexing for parallel transform updates.

ECS Scene Serialization

Implement Nlohmann JSON and data-oriented binary serialization for the ECS.

SAH BVH Animation Integration

Integration

Animation Global Colliders

Calculate and update global frame colliders for animated entities.

Morton Radix Sort Fixes

Fix Morton Radix sort bugs and implement wireframe visualization.

Forward+ Tile Debugging

Fix rendering bugs related to the Forward+ tile-based pipeline.

CPU Reduced Model Rendering

Create a reduced CPU representation/proxy for loaded models.

Physics: Jolt & Taskflow

Integrate Jolt Physics utilizing the Taskflow threadpool for jobs.

Triangle / Convex Colliders

Add support for model-level triangle and convex colliders.

Dynamic Resource GPU Buffers

Implement dynamic GPU buffer management for loaded models, animations and materials.

Meshlet Collider Visualization

Add debug visualization specifically for meshlet-based colliders.

Model Binary SSD Cache

Implement binary caching for models to SSD for faster loading times.

Point Light Gpu Driven and Work Graph based shadow culling

Spot Light Gpu Driven and Work Graph based shadow culling

Direction Light Gpu Driven and Work Graph based shadow culling

Box/Sphere/Capsule collider wireframe visualization

SSAO

Vulkan Validation Error fix

Scene Serialization

Serialization Pipeline

Binary, Json, Xml, Yaml, Toml