Sidreal Engine 2026

Sidreal Engine 2026 is a small rendering engine project intended for learning modern Vulkan rendering and C++ game engine concepts. It is an educational codebase and playground for experimenting with pipelines, resource management, model loading, and other rendering systems.

Features

• GPU-driven vertex/index buffer pulling
• Automatic model instancing
• Slang shader compilation to SPIR-V
• JSON scene composition with transforms
• GLTF 3.0 model loading via tinyGLTF v3
• Modern Vulkan API Usage
  • Dynamic rendering (no render passes)
  • Timeline semaphores for frame synchronization
  • Buffer device addresses for GPU-driven rendering

Building

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 or later
• Visual Studio 2022/2026
• Vulkan SDK installed (LunarG Vulkan SDK) and up-to-date GPU drivers

Instructions

1. Install the Vulkan SDK and ensure VK_SDK_PATH is available in your environment.
2. Run the according build script for Windows in the Scripts folder to generate project files.
3. Open the solution file in Visual Studio
4. Build the project and run through VS or the App executable.

Included Third-party Libraries & Tools

• tinyGLTF
• GLM
• SDL2
• Vulkan Memory Allocator
• Premake
• JSON for Modern C++