TakEngine

A Vulkan-based rendering engine featuring PBR with IBL and Linear Blend Skinning support.

Requirements

System Requirements

• C++17 compatible compiler
  • MSVC 2017+ (Windows)
  • GCC 7+ (Linux)
• CMake 3.14 or higher
• Vulkan SDK — Download from LunarG

Automatically Fetched Dependencies

The following libraries are automatically downloaded and built via CMake's FetchContent:

Library	Version	Purpose
GLM	0.9.9.8	Mathematics library
GLFW	3.4	Window/input handling
spdlog	1.12.0	Logging
tinygltf	2.8.21	glTF model loading
simdjson	3.10.1	Fast JSON parsing
zstd	1.5.5	Compression (for KTX2)
Dear ImGui	1.91.5	GUI
libktx	4.3.2	KTX/KTX2 texture loading

Building

Windows

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/your-username/TakEngine.git
cd TakEngine

# Create build directory
mkdir build
cd build

# Configure and build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release

Linux

# Install Vulkan SDK and development tools
# Ubuntu/Debian:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install vulkan-sdk cmake build-essential

# Clone and build
git clone https://github.com/your-username/TakEngine.git
cd TakEngine
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . -j$(nproc)

Usage

Run the executable with an optional scene selector:

./TakEngine [scene]

Available Scenes

Option	Scene	Description
1	TriangleScene	Basic triangle rendering
2	ModelTest	Model loading test
3	PBRIBLScene	PBR with IBL (default)

Examples

# Run default PBR IBL scene
./TakEngine

# Run triangle scene
./TakEngine 1

# Run model test
./TakEngine 2