Learning Vulkan

by Singh, Parminder

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Full title :Learning Vulkan.

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Publication Date:2016.

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Publisher(s):Packt Publishing
Place of Publication:Birmingham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Getting started with command buffers.

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Description:1 online resource (457 pages)

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ISBN:9781786460844, 178646084X, 9781786469809, 1786469804
oclc:ocn974589557
LC Classification:T385.S564 2016
Dewey Decimal:006.6

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with the NextGen 3D Graphics API; Vulkan and its evolution; Vulkan versus OpenGL; Important jargons before we get started; Learning the fundamentals of Vulkan; Vulkan's execution model; Vulkan's queues; The object model; Object lifetime and command syntax; Error checking and validation; Understanding the Vulkan application; Driver; Application; WSI; SPIR-V; LunarG SDK; Getting started with the Vulkan programming model.

Hardware initializationWindow presentation surfaces; Resource setup; Pipeline setup; Descriptor sets and descriptor pools; Shaders with SPIR-V; Pipeline management; Recording commands; Queue submission; Summary; Chapter 2: Your First Vulkan Pseudo Program; Installing Vulkan; The Hello World!!! pseudocode; Initialization -- a handshake with the device; Swapchain initialization -- querying the WSI extension; Command buffer initialization -- allocating command buffers; Resource objects -- managing images and buffers; Creating a presentation surface -- creating a swapchain; Creating a depth image.

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