frozein / VkGalaxy

a simple galaxy renderer with Vulkan

VkGalaxy

A simple galaxy renderer/simulation written in C/C++ with Vulkan. This project was simply for me to learn vulkan, my process is documented in this video: https://youtu.be/Pj1P0zV4zDI

The galaxy simulation is based off of this article: https://beltoforion.de/en/spiral_galaxy_renderer/?a=spiral_galaxy_renderer

Building

This project has the following dependencies:

• CMake
• GLFW
• The VulkanSDK (from LunarG)

To build this project on any platform, simply clone the repository, and run cmake ., and the appropriate build files will be generated.