Hey everyone, I’m Kia! 👋 I’m currently building a custom 3D Engine from the ground up. While it’s definitely a fun passion project, it’s designed to be a genuinely powerful and useful tool.

The scope of this project is pretty massive, but here are the main goals I’m chasing right now:

• 🎨 Multi-Style Rendering: I want this engine to render scenes in highly stylized ways using a variety of techniques. Currently planning support for:
  • Rasterization
  • Path Tracing
  • Ray Marching
  • Ray Casting (Voxels)

• Simple and easy: No one likes being thrown to the wolves. The engine will feature a clean, simple UI that scales in complexity as you learn how to use it, rather than overwhelming you right at the start.

• Accessible Animation: Built-in tools for animations and simulations that are actually easy to understand and use.

🛠️ Latest Update: Path Tracer Rewrite
I recently did a complete rewrite of the Path Tracer! This was a massive step to future-proof the engine. It now supports multiple shader passes, debug textures, and is fully prepped for texture mapping.

Why am I so excited about getting textures working? Because the second they drop, I am immediately rendering 1) The Backrooms 🟨 and 2) the spinning “Oiiaioooooiai” cat 🐈. Texture support should be ready very soon!

Want to check it out (please do)?

• 💻 GitHub: Check out the code and the todo.md to see what I’m working on next: https://github.com/pkncoder/Engine/tree/Phase-III

• 🎮 Live Demo: Try out my almost real-time Path Tracer right in your browser (click and drag to look around): Shadertoy Path Tracer Demo: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/7fBSzR