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You're reading from Vulkan Cookbook Work through recipes to unlock the full potential of the next generation graphics API—Vulkan

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786468154

Length 700 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Visual Studio

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Author (1):

Pawel Lapinski

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Instance and Devices FREE CHAPTER

2. Image Presentation

3. Command Buffers and Synchronization

4. Resources and Memory

5. Descriptor Sets

6. Render Passes and Framebuffers

7. Shaders

8. Graphics and Compute Pipelines

9. Command Recording and Drawing

10. Helper Recipes

11. Lighting

12. Advanced Rendering Techniques

Image Presentation

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Creating a Vulkan Instance with WSI extensions enabled
Creating a presentation surface
Selecting a queue family that supports presentation to a given surface
Creating a logical device with WSI extensions enabled
Selecting a desired presentation mode
Getting capabilities of a presentation surface
Selecting a number of swapchain images
Choosing a size of swapchain images
Selecting desired usage scenarios of swapchain images
Selecting a transformation of swapchain images
Selecting a format of swapchain images
Creating a swapchain
Getting handles of swapchain images
Creating a swapchain with R8G8B8A8 format and a mailbox present mode
Acquiring a swapchain image
Presenting an image
Destroying a swapchain
Destroying a presentation surface

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Authors (1)

Lapinski

Pawel Lapinski is a graphics software engineer at Intel Corporation. His professional career started 10 years ago when he and his friends were hired to develop a 3D training/simulation application using C++, OpenGL, and Cg, which was later improved with added head-mounted display support and stereoscopic image generation. Since his studies, Pawel has been interested in 3D graphics and especially in the open multiplatform OpenGL library. He wrote a diploma about the Effective usage of vertex and fragment shaders. Since then, he has continued to pursue opportunities to work with 3D graphics and expand his knowledge in the field. He had the opportunity to join a team that was developing one of the biggest CAVE-like installations at the Polish Gdansk University of Technology. His responsibility was to prepare 3D visualizations using Unity3D engine and add stereoscopic image generation and support for motion tracking. Pawel's whole career has involved working with computer graphics, the OpenGL library, and shaders. However, some time ago, already as a programmer at Intel, he had the opportunity to start working with the Vulkan API when he prepared validation tests for the Vulkan graphics driver. He also prepared a series of tutorials teaching people how to use Vulkan and now he wants to share more of his knowledge in the form of a Vulkan Cookbook.

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