Vulkan sample projects

This is a collection of open source C++ projects for Vulkan®, the new generation graphics and compute API from Khronos®. It includes the dependencies needed for building a Vulkan project.

Repository content
Dependencies
Building these projects
- Ubuntu
- Windows
Adding a new project
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Repository content

Content of this repository:

src: Different projects that use Vulkan
- Vk_1: The very basics. Triangle
- Vk_2: Buffers (Staging, Vertex, Index). Square.
- Vk_3: Descriptors (layout, buffer, pool, sets). Rotating 3D square.
- Vk_4: Texture mapping (image view and sampler). Rotating 3D textured square.
- Vk_5: Depth buffering. Two rotating 3D texture squares at different heights.
- Vk_6: OBJ models loaders. Loads a 3D scenario.
- Vk_7: Mipmapping. In software generation.
- Vk_8: Multisampling: Shader MSAA (MultiSampling AntiAliasing) & SS (Sample shading).
- Vk_9: Abstracting Vulkan (environment, model, render loop).
- Vk_10: Rendering many models simultaneously.
- Vk_11: Camera system (free camera).
- Vk_12: Render same model several times.
extern: Dependencies
files: Scripts and images
textures: Images used as textures in our Vulkan projects

Dependencies

Dependencies of these projects:

GLFW (Window system and inputs)
GLM (Mathematics library)
stb_image (Image loader)
tinyobjloader (Load vertices and faces from an OBJ file)
Vulkan SDK (Set of repositories useful for Vulkan development) (installed in platform-specfic directories)
- Vulkan loader (Khronos)
- Vulkan validation layer (Khronos)
- Vulkan extension layer (Khronos)
- Vulkan tools (Khronos)
- Vulkan tools (LunarG)
- gfxreconstruct (LunarG)
- glslang (Shader compiler to SPIR-V) (Khronos)
- shaderc (C++ API wrapper around glslang) (Google)
- SPIRV-Tools (Khronos)
- SPIRV-Cross (Khronos)
- SPIRV-Reflect (Khronos)

Building these projects

Steps for building this project:

The following includes the basics for setting up this project. For more details about setting up Vulkan, check Setting up Vulkan.

Ubuntu

Update your GPU's drivers
Get:
1. Compiler that supports C++17
2. Make
3. CMake
Install Vulkan SDK
1. Download tarball in extern\.
2. Run script ./files/install_vulkansdk (modify pathVulkanSDK variable if necessary)
Build project using the scripts:
1. sudo ./files/build_dependencies_ubuntu
2. ./files/build_project_ubuntu

Windows

Update your GPU's drivers
Install Vulkan SDK
1. Download installer wherever
2. Execute installer
Get:
1. MVS
2. CMake
Build project using the scripts:
1. build_dependencies_Win.bat
2. build_project_Win.bat
Compile project with MVS (Set as startup project & Release mode) (first glfw and glm_static, then the Vulkan projects)

Adding a new project

Copy some project from /project and paste it there
Include it in /project/CMakeLists.txt
Modify project name in copiedProject/CMakeLists.txt
Modify in-code shaders paths, if required

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