Luigi De Marco - Dev Portfolio

Vulkan Renderer

This was submitted as the final deliverable for the Games Programming university course at DMU Leicester. It is a rendering application which utilises the Vulkan API to render a 3D scene with PBR lighting.
The entire project, including build files and dependencies, were made from scratch.
It is currently still in development as more features are being added, with plans to develop it into a game engine for learning purposes.

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Asteroid Belt

This was the project we worked on during our "Performant Rendering" class. A working game was provided, using an existing game engine, and our goal was to use modern optimisation techniques to improve frame times and memory utilisation.
For this, I implemented:

• Entity Component System (ECS)
• Removed redundant GPU bindings
• Deferred rendering
• Level of Detail (LOD) using MeshOptimizer
• SIMD instructions
• Broadphase collision detection
• Instanced rendering

Throughout the project, I tracked and recorded performance differences using the Tracy profiler, assisted by RenderDoc and Nvidia Nsight usage.

After all the techniques were implemented, I saw a performance difference in frame time of about 500%

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Advanced Shaders demo

This was the project we worked on during our "Advanced Shader Programming" class. For this class, a game renderer was provided, the goal was to implement modern rendering techniques and shaders.
For this, I implemented:

• Shadow Mapping
• Several material and post processing shaders
• Deferred rendering
• Noise generation applied to terrain
• Particles using compute shaders
• SSBOs
• Physically Based Rendering

Most of the parameters are modifiable using an ImGUI interface using uniforms

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Witch Hunt

This is a prototype for an online multiplayer ARPG game. Developed using Unreal Engine, "Witch Hunt" was a group project. The purpose of which was to learn how to utilise C++ efficiently within Unreal Engine, as well as implementing an online multiplayer aspect.
I was responsible for:

• Player Movement
• Creating a modular spell system
• Implementing each team member's code within the project

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Space Fighter

A very simple spaceship shooter game made for my JavaScript module during the second year of University. The goal was to demonstrate an understanding of the JavaScript language focusing on real time graphics. The inspiration for this project was a PlayStation2 game called "Psyvariar".

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