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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

Converting GLSL shaders to SPIR-V assemblies

The Vulkan API requires us to provide shaders in the form of SPIR-V assemblies. It is a binary, intermediate representation, so writing it manually is a very hard and cumbersome task. It is much easier and quicker to write shader programs in a high-level shading language such as GLSL. After that we just need to convert them into a SPIR-V form using the glslangValidator tool.

How to do it...

Download and install the Vulkan SDK (refer to the Downloading Vulkan SDK recipe from Chapter 1, Instance and Devices).
Open the command prompt/terminal and go to the folder which contains shader files that should be converted.

To convert a GLSL shader stored in the <input> file into a SPIR-V assembly stored in the <output...

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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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