Vulkan C++ examples and demos

Table of Contents

Official Khronos Vulkan Samples

Cloning

Assets

Building

Running

Shaders

A note on synchronization

Examples

Basics

First triangle

Pipelines

Descriptor sets

Dynamic uniform buffers

Push constants

Specialization constants

Texture mapping

Texture arrays

Cube map textures

Cube map arrays

3D textures

Input attachments

Sub passes

Offscreen rendering

CPU particle system

Stencil buffer

Vertex attributes

glTF

glTF model loading and rendering

glTF vertex skinning

glTF scene rendering

Advanced

Multi sampling

High dynamic range

Shadow mapping

Cascaded shadow mapping

Omnidirectional shadow mapping

Run-time mip-map generation

Capturing screenshots

Order Independent Transparency

Performance

Multi threaded command buffer generation

Instancing

Indirect drawing

Occlusion queries

Pipeline statistics

Physically Based Rendering

PBR basics

PBR image based lighting

Textured PBR with IBL

Deferred

Deferred shading basics

Deferred multi sampling

Deferred shading shadow mapping

Screen space ambient occlusion

Compute Shader

Image processing

GPU particle system

N-body simulation

Ray tracing

Cloth simulation

Cull and LOD

Geometry Shader

Normal debugging

Viewport arrays

Tessellation Shader

Displacement mapping

Dynamic terrain tessellation

Model tessellation

Hardware accelerated ray tracing

Basic ray tracing

Ray traced shadows

Ray traced reflections

Ray traced texture mapping

Callable ray tracing shaders

Ray tracing intersection shaders

Ray traced glTF

Ray query

Headless

Render

Compute

User Interface

Text rendering

Distance field fonts

ImGui overlay

Effects

Fullscreen radial blur

Bloom

Parallax mapping

Spherical environment mapping

Extensions

Conservative rasterization (VKEXTconservativerasterization)

Push descriptors (VKKHRpushdescriptor)

Inline uniform blocks (VKEXTinlineuniformblock)

Multiview rendering (VKKHRmultiview)

Conditional rendering (VKEXTconditionalrendering)

Debug markers (VKEXTdebugmarker)

Negative viewport height (VKKHRMaintenance1 or Vulkan 1.1)

Variable rate shading (VKKHRfragmentshadingrate)

Descriptor indexing (VKEXTdescriptorindexing)

Dynamic rendering (VKKHRdynamicrendering)

Graphics pipeline library (VKEXTgraphicspipelinelibrary)

Mesh shaders (VKEXTmeshshader)

Descriptor buffers (VKEXTdescriptorbuffer)

Shader objects (VKEXTshaderobject)

Misc

Vulkan Gears

Vulkan demo scene

Credits and Attributions