Learning Vulkan

I'm currently learning the API by reeding tutorials and experimenting things. My goal is to have a general comprehension of the API, and to learn commons graphics technics.

Examples

• Shadow mapping

TODO LIST

• Renderer
  • Memory allocator (VMA ?)
  • Rendering technics:
    • Shadow maps:
      • PCF
      • Cascaded
    • PBR materials
    • Deferred rendering pipeline
    • Forward+ rendering pipeline
    • SSR (Screen Space Reflections)
    • SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion)
    • SSSSS (Screen Space Sub Surface Scattering)
    • SMAA (Subpixel Morphological Anti Aliasing)

How to build

Dependencies

• Vulkan SDK >= 1.1.126 : Download LunarG's SDK, install vulkan packages for your Linux ditribution or build it for sources.
• GLFW >= 3.2.1 : Download and compile GLFW or install GLFW dev and regular packages.
• GLM >= 0.9.7 : Download GLM or install GLM packages.

Generating workspace

I use premake 5 to generate build files used by tools like Microsoft Visual Studio or GNU Make. --> Premake Wiki

Simply run premake5 [action] in the root directory (premake5.exe for Windows, and premake5 for Linux). It will create a "build" directory where you will find all the project files needed to build the lib and examples.

Shipped Libraries

• STB_image 2.22
• Tiny_Obj_Loader 2.0