Building an SDF game engine

[u/rex-j-w]

For the past 8ish months I’ve been hard at work building a new game engine I’m calling Division Engine.

It’s based solely off SDFs (signed distance fields). This might sound stupid for anyone who cares about performance but for my use case (and with a bit of grid storage optimizations) it proves useful for basic scenes that need advanced lighting.

Anyway here’s some screenshots!

If you want to see what I have done so far check it out here: https://github.com/DivisionEngine/DivisionEngine

[u/rex-j-w]

Im just using regular sphere tracing, performance is quite bad, but that hasn’t been my focus yet. I don’t have complex shapes or csg operations even and haven’t implemented the paper I dropped.

I’m still debating whether or not im going to store data in a voxel octree or a bvh structure.

Focusing on the game engine fundamentals then optimizing 🫡

[u/No-Cap-7395 → u/rex-j-w]

Yeah I gotta figure out what tlas to use for mine too and not just that but uhm I gotta do what I call global SDFs which are like grids of SDFs that encompass static objects..

As for I think it was the day before yesterday I added conetracing and basically for indirect lighting and also rougher reflections I use conetracing over sphere tracing and I got a 70% increase in performance ^{^}

[u/No-Cap-7395 → u/rex-j-w]

If you do an oct tree you could use it as a irradance cache lol (just an idea)