InceptionEngine is a toy 3D game engine. The active renderer bring-up path is D3D12.

You do not need the Visual Studio IDE. On Windows, D3D12 still needs a Windows SDK and an MSVC-compatible compiler/toolchain.

Install:

• VS Code
• CMake Tools extension
• CMake
• Ninja
• Windows SDK
• Either Visual Studio Build Tools or LLVM with clang-cl
• dxc.exe from Windows SDK, Vulkan SDK, or DirectX Shader Compiler

Open this folder in VS Code, then select:

• Configure preset: windows-d3d12-debug
• Build preset: windows-d3d12-debug
• Launch config: InceptionEngine D3D12 Debug

The executable path used by VS Code is:

build/windows-d3d12-debug/src/InceptionEngine.exe

If CMake cannot find dxc.exe, set DXC_PATH to the directory that contains it, then reconfigure.