Luminx is a basic OpenGL application set for testing and exploring various lighting effects.
Luminx is a useful tool for those interested in the world of lighting effects. As a basic framework, it provides users with the opportunity to experiment and test different lighting techniques in a controlled environment using OpenGL as the graphics API. This allows for a better understanding of how different lighting effects work without having to deal with a verbose API and focus on the impact of lighting algorithms on the overall visual aesthetics of a scene.
As mentioned earlier, Luminx framework focuses on exploring shading techniques, so neither the best performance nor the best scene abstraction should be expected in these applications.
The applications are organized as follows within the Luminx workspace:
- Basic: These are fairly simple applications with the objective of getting in touch with the Luminx framework.
- Lighting: In these applications, lighting techniques are tested using Phong materials as the base shading model.
- Camera: Here we test different effects that have to do with camera properties (To Be Done).
- Screen Space: Applications in this group test different lighting effects that use information from the screen (To Be Done).
- PBR: Physically Based Rendering applications explore different physical aspects of lighting that can be implemented in real-time applications (To Be Done).
- NPR: Non-Photorealistic Rendering applications explore different realtime rendering techniques to implement artistic styles based on drawing and illustration (To Be Done).
- OS: Windows (Luminx has been tested only on Windows at the moment)
- Visual Studio 2022 (not strictly required, however included setup scripts at the moment only support this)
Once you've cloned this repository using the command:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Frollo24/Luminx
Run Scripts/SetupVS2022.bat if you're using Visual Studio 2022 to generate correct Visual Studio solution and project files.