BRE Engine

Historical R&D · Graphics · DirectX 12 · Rendering Architecture

Historical project — 2017

This page documents BRE as it was developed at the time. It was lightly edited in 2026 for clarity and portfolio context; the project itself is not presented as current production work.

BRE (Bertoa Rendering Engine) is a rendering framework I built from scratch as a focused environment for studying modern real-time graphics architecture, DirectX 12, and rendering techniques.

BRE rendering architecture diagram showing DirectX 12 rendering passes

Why I built it

I wanted more than isolated graphics demos: a codebase where I could reason about renderer architecture and then add techniques on top of a system I understood end to end. I originally explored DirectX 11, then restarted around DirectX 12 to learn the lower-level API and the architectural changes it introduced.

Architecture

Managers, helpers, scene representation, scene generation, render orchestration, and command-list execution.

Rendering passes

Geometry, environment lighting, skybox, tone mapping, post processing, and ambient occlusion.

What this project taught me

Renderer architecture becomes much easier to reason about when the full resource and command flow is visible rather than hidden behind a high-level engine.
Building a reusable framework creates a better experimental environment than collecting disconnected graphics demos.
Low-level graphics work strengthens the ability to reason about performance, data flow, synchronization, and rendering trade-offs even when working later inside a larger engine.

BRE is historical work, not my current production stack. I keep it visible because it documents the C++ and graphics foundation behind my current Unreal Engine and real-time R&D work.