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• Introduction

• Overview

• Development environment

• Drawing a triangle

  • Setup

    • Base Code

    • Instance

    • Validation layers

    • Physical devices and queue families

    • Logical device and queues

  • Presentation

    • Window surface

    • Swap chain

    • Image views

  • Graphics pipeline basics

    • Introduction

    • Shader modules

    • Fixed functions

    • Render passes

    • Conclusion

  • Drawing

    • Framebuffers

    • Command buffers

    • Rendering and presentation

    • Frames in flight

  • Swap chain recreation

• Vertex buffers

  • Vertex input description

  • Vertex buffer creation

  • Staging buffer

  • Index buffer

• Uniform buffers

  • Descriptor layout and buffer

  • Descriptor pool and sets

• Texture mapping

  • Images

  • Image view and sampler

  • Combined image sampler

• Depth buffering

• Loading models

• Generating Mipmaps

• Multisampling

• Compute Shader

• Ecosystem Utilities and GPU Compatibility

• Vulkan Profiles

• Android

• Migrating to Modern Asset Formats: glTF and KTX2

• Rendering Multiple Objects

• Multithreading

• Ray Tracing

  • Overview

  • Dynamic rendering

  • Acceleration structures

  • Ray query shadows

  • TLAS animation

  • Shadow transparency

  • Reflections

  • Conclusion

• FAQ

• GitHub Repository

• Building a Simple Engine

  • Introduction

  • Engine Architecture

    • Introduction

    • Architectural patterns

    • Component systems

    • Resource management

    • Rendering pipeline

    • Event systems

    • Conclusion

  • Camera Transformations

    • Introduction

    • Math foundations

    • Transformation matrices

    • Camera implementation

    • Vulkan integration

    • Conclusion

  • Lighting & Materials

    • Introduction

    • Lighting models

    • Push constants

    • Lighting implementation

    • Vulkan integration

    • Shadows

    • Conclusion

  • GUI

    • Introduction

    • ImGui setup

    • Input handling

    • UI elements

    • Vulkan integration

    • Conclusion

  • Loading Models

    • Introduction

    • Project setup

    • Model system

    • Loading glTF

    • PBR rendering

    • Multiple objects

    • Scene rendering

    • Animations

    • Conclusion

  • Subsystems

    • Introduction

    • Audio basics

    • Vulkan audio

    • Physics basics

    • Vulkan physics

    • Conclusion

  • Tooling

    • Introduction

    • CI/CD

    • Debugging & RenderDoc

    • Crash minidumps

    • Extensions

    • Packaging & distribution

    • Conclusion

  • Mobile Development

    • Introduction

    • Platform considerations

    • Performance optimizations

    • Rendering approaches

    • Vulkan extensions

    • Conclusion

  • Advanced Topics

    • Introduction

    • Rendering pipeline overview

    • Forward vs Forward+ vs Deferred

    • Forward+ rendering

    • Culling

    • Mipmaps & LOD

    • Push constants per object

    • Synchronization & streaming

    • Synchronization2 & frame pacing

    • Descriptor indexing (UpdateAfterBind)

    • Separate image/sampler descriptors

    • Shader tile image

    • glTF animation

    • Planar reflections

    • Ray query rendering

    • Ray query: reflections & transparency

    • Dynamic rendering local read

    • Robustness2

  • Appendix

    • Appendix

• Advanced Vulkan Compute

  • Introduction

  • The Compute Architecture and Execution Model

    • Introduction

    • Workgroups and Invocations

    • Occupancy and Latency Hiding

    • Vulkan 1.4 Scalar Layouts

  • Memory Models and Consistency

    • Introduction

    • The Vulkan Memory Model

    • Shared Memory (LDS)

    • Memory Consistency

  • Subgroup Operations: The Hidden Power

    • Introduction

    • Cross-Invocation Communication

    • Subgroup Partitioning

    • Non-Uniform Indexing

  • Heterogeneous Ecosystem: OpenCL on Vulkan

    • Introduction

    • Setup and Installation

    • The clspv Pipeline

    • Kernel Portability

    • clvk and Layering

  • High-Level Abstraction: SYCL and Single-Source C++

    • Introduction

    • Setup and Installation

    • Single-Source GPGPU

    • Vulkan Interoperability

    • Unified Shared Memory (USM)

  • Advanced Data Structures on the GPU

    • Introduction

    • GPU-Resident Trees

    • Global Atomic Management

    • Device-Addressable Buffers

  • Indirect Dispatch and GPU-Driven Pipelines

    • Introduction

    • Indirect Dispatch

    • GPU-Side Command Generation

    • Multi-Draw Indirect (MDI)

  • Asynchronous Compute Orchestration

    • Introduction

    • Concurrent Execution

    • Timeline Semaphores

    • Queue Priority

  • Cooperative Matrices and Specialized Math

    • Introduction

    • Cooperative Matrices

    • Mixed Precision

  • Performance Auditing and Optimization

    • Introduction

    • Instruction Throughput Analysis

    • The "Divergence" Audit

  • Diagnostics and AI-Assisted Compute Refinement

    • Introduction

    • Compute Validation

    • Assistant-Led Optimization

  • Conclusion