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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “For host-visible memory, it’s enough to retrieve a pointer to the destination using vmaMapMemory and copy the data using memcpy.”

A block of code is set as follows:

const VmaAllocationCreateInfo allocCreateInfo = {
    .flags = VMA_ALLOCATION_CREATE_DEDICATED_MEMORY_BIT,
    .usage = VMA_MEMORY_USAGE_AUTO_PREFER_DEVICE,
    .priority = 1.0f,
};

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

samplerShadowMap_ = context.createSampler(
    VK_FILTER_NEAREST, VK_FILTER_NEAREST,
    VK_SAMPLER_ADDRESS_MODE_CLAMP_TO_EDGE,
    VK_SAMPLER_ADDRESS_MODE_CLAMP_TO_EDGE,
    VK_SAMPLER_ADDRESS_MODE_CLAMP_TO_EDGE, 1.0f,
    true, VK_COMPARE_OP_LESS_OR_EQUAL,
    "lighting pass shadow");

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “To guarantee that partial updates work, we need to copy the last active buffer, Buffer 0, into Buffer 1 first, and then update viewport matrix.”

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