Understanding the Vulkan buffer resource type
A buffer resource represents a contiguous array of data in a linear fashion. Buffer resources are commonly stored attribute data information, such as vertex coordinates, texture coordinates, associated colors, and more. The buffer resource in Vulkan is represented by the VkBuffer object, unlike the image resource (VkImage), which is represented in the view form (image view, VkImageView), the buffer resources can be used directly as the source of vertex data or accessed by shaders through descriptors. They need to be converted explicitly into a buffer view (VkBufferView) to allow the shaders to use buffer data contents in the formatted form. In this section, we will make use of the buffer resource directly using the API commands.
First, this section will discuss the buffer resource concepts covering the API specifications to use them in the implementation. Next, we will use these APIs and implement the buffer resources to store the geometry data...
