This project is a neat path tracer, supporting
- basic features, including diffusive and specular materials;
- Bounding Volume Hierarchy with Surface Area Heuristic for acceleration;
- Multiple importance sampling with power heuristic;
- Customed materials, including transmissive and Disney BSDF materials;
- Customed textures, including color texture and normal map;
- Special visual effects, including motion blur, depth of field, and alpha shadow;
- Anti-aliasing, with multi-sampling and FXAA;
- Simple implementation on homogeneous participant media;
- Classic scenes like Cornell Box and some customed scenes for demo.
Clone the repo (With submodules recursively):
git clone link-to-your-repo.git --recursive
or
git clone link-to-your-repo.git
cd sparkium
git submodule update --init --recursive
Make sure that you installed Visual Studio with component Desktop development with C++.
If not, please open Visual Studio Installer and Modify your installation.
The repo contains configuration file CMakeSettings.json.
You only need to open the repo folder with Visual Studio on your local machine,
then Visual Studio should start CMake configuration process automatically.
When CMake configuration is successfully finished,
you should be able to select build type and debug target.
You should select sparks.exe as the debug target and run the program.
On Windows, you also should install Visual Studio with component Desktop development with C++.
We do this for the MSVC compiler, which has the best compatibility on Windows.
MinGW and MSYS2 are not recommended!!!
The repo also contained a vscode profile.
You can just open the repo folder on you local machine and configure CMake through settings on the bottom bar.
Your VSCode should have installed extensions CMake Tools and C/C++ from Microsoft.
To run your program, you should select target sparks first. Then, you're recommended to use Run->Start Debugging and Run->Run Without Debugging, start from the menu bar.