[bob1029]

> you're writing a "software-based" 3D renderer, right?

Yes. This is 100% what you are familiar with.

> What features does your renderer support in terms of shading and texturing?

I have a software-defined pixel shading approach that allows for some degree of flexibility throughout. Each object in the scene currently defines a function that describes how shade its final pixels based on a few parameters.

> Are you writing this all in a high-level language, e.g. C, or assembler?

I am writing this in C#/.NET6. I do have unsafe turned on for pointer access over low-level bitmap operations, but otherwise its all fully-managed runtime.

> And of course, why?

Because I want to see if I can actually build an effective gaming experience without a GPU in 2022. Secondary objective is simply to learn some new stuff that isnt boring banking CRUD apps.

[kingcharles]

That's awesome. I think the advantage of a software renderer is that you can adapt your inner loops to do things that a GPU can't do. You can create some new form of polygon-fill that isn't supported by Direct3D or OpenGL etc.

Plus, of course it will run on anything.

I hope you'll be willing to open the code at some point...