Laugh Engine

Built on the low-overhead Vulkan API, enabling high-performance rendering with benchmarks on GTX 1080 showing efficient frame times for features like bloom and MSAA.

Implements physically based rendering with image-based lighting, delivering realistic shading at minimal extra cost compared to Blinn-Phong, as shown in performance charts.

Uses spherical harmonics to compress diffuse irradiance, saving over 99% memory compared to cube maps, detailed in the optimization section with specific byte calculations.

Includes performance-optimized bloom with half-resolution filtering and hardware linear filtering tricks, plus custom MSAA resolve shaders that boost speed over SSAA.

Loads geometry and materials from glTF 1.0 and 2.0 files, supporting scene hierarchy and extensions like FRAUNHOFER_materials_pbr for PBR textures.