zeux/niagara

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1760 stars · 93 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Vulkan renderer written from scratch in C++ during live-streamed development sessions, experimenting with modern Vulkan rendering techniques. It implements GPU culling, cone culling, automatic occlusion culling, and task/mesh shading without Vulkan-specific third-party code.

Use cases

• learn modern Vulkan rendering techniques from a from-scratch renderer
• study GPU-driven culling and scene submission implementations
• see task and mesh shading pipelines in practice
• explore automatic occlusion culling with depth pyramids
• benchmark mesh shading pipeline performance
• follow along with a streamed renderer development series

When to choose

• you want a real-world reference implementation of GPU culling and mesh shading in Vulkan
• you are learning Vulkan graphics programming and want streamed, incremental lessons
• you need example code for occlusion culling or draw call compaction

When to avoid

• you need a production-ready, general-purpose rendering engine
• you require cross-platform support beyond Windows and Linux desktops
• you need a renderer with a high-level API or extensive documentation

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graphics simulation developer-tools graphics developer-tools tutorials windows cpp vulkan renderer mesh-shading gpu-culling occlusion-culling streamed-development learning-resource game-development linux gpu

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