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Get started with the Vulkan API and its programming techniques using the easy-to-follow examples to create stunning 3D graphics

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Vulkan, the next generation graphics and compute API, is the latest offering by Khronos. This API is the successor of OpenGL and unlike OpenGL, it offers great flexibility and high performance capabilities to control modern GPU devices. With this book, you'll get great insights into the workings of Vulkan and how you can make stunning graphics run with minimum hardware requirements. We begin with a brief introduction to the Vulkan system and show you its distinct features with the successor to the OpenGL API. First, you will see how to establish a connection with hardware devices to query the available queues, memory types, and capabilities offered. Vulkan is verbose, so before diving deep into programing, you’ll get to grips with debugging techniques so even first-timers can overcome error traps using Vulkan’s layer and extension features. You’ll get a grip on command buffers and acquire the knowledge to record various operation commands into command buffer and submit it to a proper queue for GPU processing. We’ll take a detailed look at memory management and demonstrate the use of buffer and image resources to create drawing textures and image views for the presentation engine and vertex buffers to store geometry information. You'll get a brief overview of SPIR-V, the new way to manage shaders, and you'll define the drawing operations as a single unit of work in the Render pass with the help of attachments and subpasses. You'll also create frame buffers and build a solid graphics pipeline, as well as making use of the synchronizing mechanism to manage GPU and CPU hand-shaking. By the end, you’ll know everything you need to know to get your hands dirty with the coolest Graphics API on the block.

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Learn fundamentals of Vulkan programing model to harness the power of modern GPU devices.

Implement device, command buffer and queues to get connected with the physical hardware.

Explore various validation layers and learn how to use it for debugging Vulkan application.

Get a grip on memory management to control host and device memory operations.

Understand and implement buffer and image resource types in Vulkan.

Define drawing operations in the Render pass and implement graphics pipeline.

Manage GLSL shader using SPIR-V and update the shader resources with descriptor sets and push constants.

Learn the drawing process, manage resources with synchronization objects and render 3D scene output on screen with Swapchain.

Bring realism to your rendered 3D scene with textures, and implement linear and optimal textures

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Amazon Customer Feb 20, 2017

A very good, informative and easy to approach book for a beginner. Just finished reading it and learnt a lot.

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Hurricane san Jan 02, 2017

This the best book on Vulkan so far, in my opinion of course. I felt my understanding on Vulkan improving a lot reading this. (Before this I had the Vulkan Programming Guide that for some reason felt like barely an improvement over the public API documents).It may help you too.

Cliente Amazon Jun 02, 2020

Perfect book to start to learn Vulkan.

cybereality Mar 02, 2017

Learning Vulkan by Parminder Singh is an excellent foray into the Vulkan graphics API and quite a competent book. The text is a reasonable 466 pages, and packs a lot in there. Singh covers all the basics of using Vulkan and goes into great detail at each step of the way. Not only is there actual C++ code shown (a lot of it), but he explains each API call and what objects to pass it, a breakdown of each object structure and what it does, what’s valid (or invalid) for data you can put in, and so forth. I have not read the official Vulkan Programming Guide yet (that’s coming next) so I’m not able to compare them here. However, this book is an absolute treasure trove of information, and presented with clear context, not just a copy and paste of API docs.While the book is not particularly long, the author does manage to cover a good amount of ground. Of the topics included are: getting started with the LunarG SDK, initializing the API, debugging, command buffers and memory management, allocating image resources and the swapchain, buffers, render passes, framebuffers, working with SPIR-V shaders, pipelines and pipeline state management, descriptors and push constants, and finally drawing a textured polygon. I’m still getting acquainted with Vulkan myself, but this does seem to touch on all the fundamental topics to get started with the API. It really seems like Parminder Singh knows what he is talking about and feel I learned a lot finishing this text.One thing to keep in mind, this is not really a book about graphics programming techniques, but rather a survey of the API. Meaning, unlike Frank Luna’s DirectX books, you won’t have any cool demos to showcase at the end. Through the whole book you’re basically just working with the initialization of the Vulkan API, though you do end up with a colored triangle and finally a textured cube. This is honestly fine, and just what is needed at this point in the life of Vulkan. Flashy demos are cool, sure, but once you have the fundamentals down, it shouldn’t be hard to apply that knowledge, or port techniques from other APIs.I will note, however, that I wish there was more discussion into the performance cost or characteristics of parts of the Vulkan API. For example, sometimes there are multiple ways to perform an action (like with uniform buffers or push constants getting data into a shader) and there wasn’t much explanation as to when to do one thing over the other. This is not a huge concern, as there are lots of articles online covering these types of things and it seems the book is there to get you familiar with the concepts and data structures to allow you to do your own research later. Certainly, I still have a lot of questions but I can’t imagine a more thorough book as an introduction to this relatively new API.Some familiarity with older graphics APIs will probably help, but I don’t think it’s absolutely needed. In my opinion, if you are wanting to learn graphics programming today, you might as well just jump into Vulkan (or DirectX12, if you prefer) as the industry will quickly adopt these new, lower-level APIs and you will be setting yourself up for the future. Do understand, though, that Vulkan is extremely verbose and needs something like 1,000 lines of code just to get a triangle on the screen. So stark beginners may be put off by that complexity. And you should definitely have good working knowledge of C++ before getting into this. With that in mind, however, I think that Learning Vulkan by Parminder Singh is a great place to start to delve into this exciting new world of Vulkan. Well worth reading.

Alejandro Dec 06, 2017

This book is good for beginners. Everything is properly explained (sometimes using a too much tiring pattern for simple details such as struct fields that after a couple of examples, the reader gets used to the "how it works").The framework provided works perfectly, and lets the user read and study all functionalities.In my opinion, global approach is the main lack of this book: it would help a lot to include good explanations and examples about how the main functionalities in Vulkan piece up together. Also, the last part (specially the shader related chapter) has explanations that could be improved.I'd recommend this book to people trying to learn Vulkan, specially those with at least some knowledge about graphics programming.

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