Roadmap

1. Exploration Phase, June-September 2018 (completed)

Goal : Establish which technologies and broad techniques to use

Learn and experiment with Vulkan, modern C++, and possible 3rd party dependencies. Experimenting with different approaches to object/scene graph design and implementation. Exploration Phase Materials :

• Principles and Philosophy
• High Level Design Decisions
• Exploration Phase Report
• Areas of Interest
• 3rd Party Resources

2. Prototype Phase, October-December 2018 (completed)

Goal : Rapid prototyping of main classes, library and test applications to establish how the scene graph API will broadly look and work.

Prototype Phase Materials:

• Prototype Phase Workplan
• Prototype Phase Report

3. Core Development Phase, January-Summer 2019

Goal: Create the final class interfaces and implementation

Using the prototyping work as a guide implement the final scene graph library with the aim of creating a solid interface and implementation.

• Development of final VSG Library
• Support for multi-threaded database paging
• Support for multi-threaded viewer, cull and dispatch traversals
• Support for multi-pass rendering
• Support for large scale whole world databases (double support for scene graph transforms)
• Development of add on libraries that provide:
  • Support for major image formats
  • Support for major 3D model formats, including FBX, glTF.
  • Support for PBR shaders
  • Support for Text rendering
• Development of test suite of programs and data
• Support for RTX Mesh shaders and ray tracing
• Port to iOS

4. Release Phase, Fall 2019 onwards

Goal: Test scene graph library against real-world applications and shake down the API and implementation for it’s first stable release.

• Refinement of API and implementation
• Build relationships with application developers and involve them in testing
• Create tutorial and example programs to illustrate how to use VSG
• Test, debug, refine and release 1.0.0!