Intro

Imagic is a thin rendering framework, implemented by Rust and WGPU.

中文简介：https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/21310925935

For the moment, Imagic is at the startup stage, which supports only a few features:

• Materials
  • PBR Material which supports both direct lighting and IBL (Image Based Lighting)
  • Unlit Material
  • Skybox Material
  • Custom Materials or custom shader
• HDR textures
• Light
  • Point Light
  • IBL
• Multi cameras
• Render textures, both 2D and Cube
• Support two methods to generate mipmaps for a Cube Texture by compute shader.
  • Bilinear Filtering
  • Gaussian Filtering with 4x4 samples
• integrated UI framework powered by EGUI

To do list

• Compete PBR with Imaged Based Lighting
• Improve scene object management. Maybe ECS is a good candidate
• Solve flicker of rendering results when camera moves
• Improve user experience of compute shader
• Improve multi camera (clear color)

Now only the first camera's clear color is supported. I will fix this problem.

• More rendering feature and effects, for example:
  • Directional light, spot light
  • Shadows
  • Transparent
  • Water
  • SSS (Sub-Surface Scattering)
  • Image Processing
  • Terrain generation
  • Light Probes
• Physics

I have plan to make a game with Imagic, maybe physics system is necessary. I'd like to use third party physics crates.

Imagic has two repositories:

• Imagic-gitee
• Imagic-github

Supported platform

• Windows
• Linux
• MacOS

In theory, it will be easy to support Android, iOS and Web, thanks to Rust and WGPU. I will complete this some day.

Examples

You can watch these videos of these examples on Youtube or Bilibili.

• PBR

cargo run --example pbr

This example renders five spheres with PBRMaterial with four point lights and IBL. It tries to reproduce the pbr IBL scene from learnopengl.com.

• IBL

cargo run --example ibl

This example only renders IBL effects without direct lighting. And it supports some UI controls to adjust related PBR parameters.

• skybox

cargo run --example skybox

This example shows LDR skybox. And the sphere in the scene is affetctd by 4 point lights and IBL baked from the LDR skybox.

Other examples use HDR skybox.

• multi_camera

cargo run --example multi_camera

This example use two cameras with different viewports to render a box geometry. The left camera rotates automatically.

• mipmaps

cargo run --example mipmaps

This example provides slider to change lod and show mipmaps of CubeTexture. This example also shows how to custom material. It provide a custom skybox material, which exposed lod parameter.

The name 'Imagic' comes from words 'image' and 'magic'. Initially, I intended to implement an image processing library accelerated with GPU. In fact, I previously created a repository named "imagetoy" locally also powered by Rust and WGPU. I believe Rust and WGPU can do more interesting things beyond just image processing, so I create 'imagic' which provides some basic infrastructures to help me and others deal with more complicated and imaginative things.

Usefull links:

• learnopengl.com
• Digital Signal Processing