I was able to build the HelloCube project successfully !! Some observations

[Blackhawk95]

Hey @Ravbug, awesome project. I am a beginner to modern C++ and coding in general, so thought to try making a project with Ravengine to learn C++.

I was able to get spinning cube working. ( with the HelloCube repo).

Few Notes :-

I tried to build the project on 3 setups ( all Windows + VS 2022 ),
( I should have collected proper error messages but forgot, if you need I can update later - only 2 setups are mine)

• Snapdragon Elite X lap - ( arm64 )
  • Vulkan didn't work due to missing extensions
  • Dx12 didn't because it wasn't supporting highest shader level needed by Ravengine
• Windows PC with Nvidia GTX 960 ( older lap )
  • Vulkan worked
  • Dx12 didn't work - some error wrt missing fp16 support for shader compilation
• Windows PC with AMD 6700XT (newer)
  • Both Vulkan and Dx12 worked
  • In Dx12 cube was not present (background was visible), but blinked into existence once every few secs.

BlinkingCube.mp4

I had trouble building following the steps mentioned in the HelloCube and RavEngine repo.
Few extra things I had to do (could be useful in readme / docs )

• Download Graphics Tools for windows - from Settings > System > Optional Features ( without which Dx12 compilation was failing missing something related to dx12 debugging )
• Had to enable long path support in Windows
• Intellisense in vs 2022 is not working. I am seeing Intellisence failure error badge once a while.

Had few more trouble when I tried VS2022's Cmake (maybe not relevant here)

• Had to use #define GLM_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL on deps/glm/glm/details/glm.cpp. ( cmake was failing there )
• Then I had to make this change too
  

Final question - Is it called "Rav"Engine or "Raven"gine ? 😃

[Ravbug]

Hey, thanks for checking out this project!

I am a beginner to modern C++ and coding in general, so thought to try making a project with Ravengine to learn C++.

Just a warning, this engine isn't really meant for programming beginners. You might want to consider starting with a more beginner-focused engine like Godot to build up your programming and debugging skills before tackling something with this engine.

Snapdragon Elite X lap - ( arm64 ) ...

This is expected. Qualcomm has not yet updated their drivers to support the features that this engine uses.

Windows PC with Nvidia GTX 960 ( older lap ) ...

Also expected. Sometimes the D3D12 driver for a given GPU supports different features than the vulkan driver.

Windows PC with AMD 6700XT (newer). In Dx12 cube was not present (background was visible), but blinked into existence once every few secs.

This is not expected. Could you please open an Issue and attach a PIX capture? I don't have that GPU so it might be difficult for me to fix it at the moment.

Few extra things I had to do (could be useful in readme / docs )

Thanks for the suggestions! I also get the Intellisense errors but that's a bug in Visual Studio and all we can do for now is wait for them to fix it.

Had to use #define GLM_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL on deps/glm/glm/details/glm.cpp. ( cmake was failing there

Can you please provide the exact error message that CMake was giving you?

Then I had to make this change to DXTex CMake

Not sure what that is, ARM64 Windows builds work fine on our CI.

Final question - Is it called "Rav"Engine or "Raven"gine ? 😃

I haven't decided yet 😃