Intermediate Samples

This section contains intermediate samples that demonstrate modern rendering techniques.

#	Walkthrough	Topic
1	Bindless	Unbounded arrays and instanced drawing
2	Compute pipelines	Compute shaders, queues and synchronization
3	Mesh shaders	Generating geometry in task and mesh shaders
4	Ray tracing	Acceleration structures and ray tracing pipelines
5	Ray queries	Inline ray tracing without a pipeline
6	Indirect rendering	GPU culling that fills the draw calls

The samples in the repository build on each other: each one starts from the basic rendering sample and adds one technique. These walkthroughs follow that structure and describe only what each sample changes, so start with basic rendering and then pick whatever you need.

Running the samples

All samples share the same controls:

Key	Action
F7	Toggle V-Sync
F8	Toggle full screen
F9	Switch to the Vulkan backend
F10	Switch to the DirectX 12 backend
Esc	Exit the application

F11 and F12 are deliberately unused, as debuggers such as Visual Studio, RenderDoc and PIX reserve them.

To build the samples, configure the engine with LITEFX_BUILD_EXAMPLES enabled, which is the default. The executables and their shaders and assets are placed in the binaries directory of your build.