SmiledMark / LearnVulkan

Learn Vulkan. Advanced examples of Vulkan and QT.

LearnVulkan

This project is mainly faced to GUI engineering applications and advanced backend computing, such as X11, Qt, ffmpeg, OpenCV, CUDA and so on. Combining Vulkan with engineering applications, not a pure demo.

Planned Application Areas:

1. Imaging Proceessing of Vulkan
2. Medical Imaging of Vulkan
3. Vulkan on Qt (GAMES)
4. Vulkan on XWindow (GAMES)
5. Vulkan with CUDA
6. Vulkan server rendering with ffmpeg
   
   

What is more than SaschaWillems's Project

This project is partly based on SaschaWillems's Project, add some functions of cross-platform window operation , deleted MFC code of the main function(WinMain), and provides a unified interface api for cross-platform.
Use sharelib (libvulkanbase.so, libvulkan_basicengine.so) instead of static lib.
For examples of cross-platform api:

int main(int argc,char** argv){
    bool debug=false;
    StaticTriangle* statictrianglePtr=new StaticTriangle(debug);
    statictrianglePtr->initVulkan();
    statictrianglePtr->initWindow();
    statictrianglePtr->prepare();
    statictrianglePtr->renderLoop();
    delete statictrianglePtr;
    return 1;
}

The libvulkan_basicengine.so also integrates 'stb_image' from https://github.com/JoeyDeVries/LearnOpenGL, supporting jpg and png image loading, and you don't need to generate ktx images for Vulkan Texture now. See 'vulkan_basicengine_texture.h'.

Finally, welcome to clone or fork my project, remember to star if you consider my project is quite good.

Requirements

Supported System:

Now: Linux(Mainly) Windows(Partly) Planned supported: Mac Android IOS

Libraries

Vulkan: 1.1.121+ Glm: 0.9.9+ Xcb & Xlib GLFW3
OpenCV: 4.0+ (Some projects need) CUDA: 10.0+ (Some projects need) Qt: 5.12+ (Some projects need)

C/C++ Compiler

GCC 7+ using -std=c++17 MSVC 2017

Compile & BUILD

For Linux/UNIX

If you don't have GLM, GLI, IMGUI, you need "git submodule update --init" first.

   git submodule update --init

Compile

    cmake ..
    make
    make install

The programs will be installed in the {PROJECT_DIR}/bin .

For Qt

    cmake .. -DBUILD_QtExamples=ON

For Windows

Compile

    cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" -T host=x64 ..
    cmake --build . --config Release
    cmake --build . --config Release --target INSTALL

The programs will be installed in the {PROJECT_DIR}/Release .

PLANS

1. Simple Examples (doing)
2. Advanced Examples
3. CUDA and Vulkan
4. Qt and Vulkan
5. X11 and Vulkan
6. Vulkan and deep learning
7. Vulkan Server Rendering