- Learning Vulkan
- Learning Vulkan
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started with the NextGen 3D Graphics API
- 2. Your First Vulkan Pseudo Program
- Installing Vulkan
- The Hello World!!! pseudocode
- Initialization - a handshake with the device
- Swapchain initialization - querying the WSI extension
- Supplying shaders - shader compilation into SPIR-V
- Building layouts - descriptor and pipeline layouts
- Creating a Render Pass - defining a pass attribute
- Framebuffer - connect drawing images to the Render Pass
- Populating geometry - storing a vertex into GPU memory
- Pipeline state management - creating pipelines
- Executing the Render Pass - drawing Hello World!!!
- Queue submission and synchronization - sending jobs
- Displaying with presentation layer - rendering a triangle
- Fitting it all together
- Summary
- 3. Shaking Hands with the Device
- 4. Debugging in Vulkan
- 5. Command Buffer and Memory Management in Vulkan
- 6. Allocating Image Resources and Building a Swapchain with WSI
- Getting started with image resources
- Understanding image resources
- Memory allocation and binding image resources
- Introducing swapchains
- Understanding the swapchain implementation flow
- The swapchain implementation's class block diagram
- Renderer - a window management custom class
- VulkanSwapChain - the swapchain manager
- Creating the surface with WSI and associating it with the created window
- The graphics queue with present support
- Querying swapchain image formats
- Creating the swapchain
- Creating a depth image
- Summarizing the application flow
- Summary
- 7. Buffer Resource, Render Pass, Framebuffer, and Shaders with SPIR-V
- 8. Pipelines and Pipeline State Management
- Getting started with pipelines
- Caching pipeline objects with a PCO
- Creating a graphics pipeline
- Understanding compute pipelines
- Pipeline State Objects (PSO) in Vulkan
- Implementing the pipeline
- Summary
- 9. Drawing Objects
- Overview of the drawing process in Vulkan
- Preparing the drawing object
- Rendering the drawing object
- Rendering an indexed geometry
- Understanding synchronization primitives in Vulkan
- Resizing the display window
- Summary
- 10. Descriptors and Push Constant
- 11. Drawing Textures
- Image resource - a quick recap
- Prerequisites for texture drawing
- Implementing the image resource with linear tiling
- Implementing the image resource with optimal tiling
- Loading the image file
- Buffer object memory allocation and binding
- Populating the allocated device memory
- Creating the image object
- Image object memory allocation and binding
- Creating a command buffer object
- Setting the image layout
- Buffer to image copy
- Setting the optimal image layout
- Submitting the command buffer
- Creating an image sampler
- Creating the image view
- Copying data content between images and buffers
- Updating the descriptor set
- Summary
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