Project Status

vkShade is currently in the PRE-ALPHA phase of development. The core shader runtime and preset system are functional and increasingly feature-complete, while the GUI and other user-facing components are still under active development. Expect bugs, incomplete features, and breaking changes as the project continues to mature.

Current Features

See also Limitations.

• ReShade FX shader support
• Configuration system with ReShade-like presets and hot-reloading
• Interactive GUI overlay with keyboard and mouse support
• Cross-platform input (Wayland, Xlib, XCB)
• Modern C++ RAII wrappers around the Vulkan C API

Limitations

Some ReShade effects and preset features do not work properly yet. For example:

• Effects relying on the depth buffer
• Effects with multiple techniques
• ReShade's Techniques and TechniqueSorting preset parameters
• Possibly more...

Roadmap

Near-term (v0.1.x)

• Chain together multiple effects
• Configuration system
  • Application-level config file
  • Per-game effect presets using ReShade's INI format
  • Hot-reload config/preset files on changes
• GUI overlay
  • Browse, apply, and re-order effects
  • Save and reload preset
  • Uniform enumeration and adjustment (in-progress)
• ReShade FX integration
  • Basic ReShade FX support
  • Full support for ReShade's time-based runtime uniforms
  • Stub support for ReShade's other runtime uniforms
  • Image and sampler reflection
  • Support for effects with multiple passes
  • Pipeline state reflection (stencil and blending)
• Various fixes and improvements

Mid-term (v0.2.x+)

• Support for effects with multiple techniques
• Full support for ReShade's input-based runtime uniforms
• Full support for ReShade's overlay-based runtime uniforms
• Hot-reloadable effects
• Depth buffer access

Long-term

• Community effect repository
• Performance profiling tools