--- title: Hazel's New Renderer IS DONE! | daily.dev description: The Hazel game engine's Renderer 2025 overhaul is complete and merged into the main dev branch. The core change replaces Hazel's custom Vulkan-only abstraction... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hazel-s-new-renderer-is-done--ycfykgzsy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hazel's New Renderer IS DONE! | daily.dev og:description: The Hazel game engine's Renderer 2025 overhaul is complete and merged into the main dev branch. The core change replaces Hazel's custom Vulkan-only abstraction... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hazel-s-new-renderer-is-done--ycfykgzsy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YcFYkGzSy.png og:image:alt: Hazel's New Renderer IS DONE! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hazel's New Renderer IS DONE! **[The Cherno](https://daily.dev/sources/cherno)** · 19 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Hazel game engine's Renderer 2025 overhaul is complete and merged into the main dev branch. The core change replaces Hazel's custom Vulkan-only abstraction layer with NVIDIA's NVRHI (Rendering Hardware Interface), which abstracts Vulkan, D3D11, and D3D12 backends. This shifts maintenance of the graphics API abstraction to Nvidia's library while Hazel retains a fork for custom patches. The change improves cross-GPU vendor compatibility (notably AMD) and reduces internal maintenance burden. Shader pipeline abstraction across APIs remains incomplete, as NVRHI doesn't handle shader compilation. Dear ImGui was also upgraded to a much newer version as part of this effort. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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