Creating a graphics pipeline

Once all the required states and pipeline properties have been gathered and instantiated, creating a graphics pipeline in Vulkan is a straightforward process. This involves populating the VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo structure and calling vkCreateGraphicsPipelines.

In this recipe, you will learn how to create a graphics pipeline object in Vulkan.

Getting ready

For more information, please refer to the constructor of the VulkanCore::Pipeline class in the repository.

How to do it…

Populating the structures referenced by VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo is not complicated, but a tedious task.

1. Once all structures of all states have been instantiated, all we need to do is create an instance of VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo and call vkCreateGraphicsPipelines:

   const VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo pipelineInfo = {
       .sType=VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_GRAPHICS_PIPELINE_CREATE_INFO,
       .stageCount = uint32_t...