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The Modern Vulkan Cookbook

You're reading from The Modern Vulkan Cookbook A practical guide to 3D graphics and advanced real-time rendering techniques in Vulkan

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803239989

Length 334 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Vulkan

Concepts

Game Design

Authors (2):

Preetish Kakkar

Mauricio Maurer

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Vulkan Core Concepts

2. Chapter 2: Working with Modern Vulkan FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Implementing GPU-Driven Rendering

4. Chapter 4: Exploring Techniques for Lighting, Shading, and Shadows

5. Chapter 5: Deciphering Order-Independent Transparency

6. Chapter 6: Anti-Aliasing Techniques

7. Chapter 7: Ray Tracing and Hybrid Rendering

8. Chapter 8: Extended Reality with OpenXR

9. Chapter 9: Debugging and Performance Measurement Techniques

10. Index

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Using the Validation Layer for error checking

In the spirit of a high-performant, low-overhead API, Vulkan does not perform error-checking by default. Doing so would incur a performance penalty, which may be unacceptable for some applications. On the other hand, due to Vulkan’s complexity, it is very easy for the application to make mistakes.

To help application authors detect errors, Vulkan provides layers, which can be enabled during development and later disabled for shipping. That combination isn’t mandatory, as developers don’t have to enable error-detecting layers for testing nor disable them for shipping, although that is the most common scenario.

In this recipe, we will introduce what Vulkan layers are and how their messages are presented, as well as offer tips on how to learn more about the meaning of those messages.

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Layers are provided with the Vulkan SDK, so if you are using Vulkan, chances are you also have access to layers...

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Authors (2)

Kakkar

Kakkar

Arush Kakkar is a computer vision and deep learning researcher and an undergraduate at Delhi Technological University. His primary focus is on autonomous robotics, which includes drones and self-driving cars, and he has been involved in building such systems in different capacities, such as navigation, localization, path planning. He has also leveraged state-of-the art computer vision and deep learning technologies for them. He is the electrical systems head of the Solar Car team of his university, Solaris DTU. He is currently working on his own driverless car company, CruiseX, which uses deep learning to drive more smoothly and with fewer errors.

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Mauricio Maurer

Mauricio Maurer

Mauricio Maurer is a computer graphics engineer with nearly 20 years of experience working with 2D and 3D rendering, computational geometry, and rasterization in the fields of scientific visualization, CAD/CAM, and social networking. He is currently a graphics software engineer at Meta, helping to develop the next generation of AR/VR devices. Mauricio holds two master's degrees in computer science with a specialization in computer graphics from SUNY Stony Brook, NY, and the Federal University of Parana, Brazil.

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