Welcome to Odin VulkanGuide
End stage after the tutorial
This page presents an Odin adaptation of the vkguide.dev tutorial. Full credit goes to the original authors.
Welcome to a new work-in-progress Vulkan guide. The focus of this guide is to understand Vulkan correctly, and act as a stepping stone for then working in your own projects. Unlike most samples and other Vulkan guides, which like to hardcode rendering loops, in here we will have a focus around dynamic rendering, so that it can act as a better base code for a game engine.
While the guide is focused around game rendering, its concepts can be used in CAD and visualization just fine.
This guide is meant for the people who already know the basics about 3d graphics, and have worked with either OpenGL or DirectX in the past. This guide will not explain 3d rendering basics such as linear algebra math.
The code uses Vulkan 1.3, and directly uses those new features to simplify the tutorial and engine architecture.
If you encounter any issues or need help while following this guide, feel free to reach out through GitHub Issues and Discussions. For general questions about Odin and GPU programming, I recommend Odin Discord and Odin Forum.
The guide is separated into multiple sections for code organization.
- Introduction - Overview about Vulkan API and the libraries used by this project
- Chapter 0 - Setting up the guide initial code
- Chapter 1 - Vulkan initialization and render loop setup. (Draws a flashing clear color)
- Chapter 2 - Vulkan compute shaders and drawing (Uses a compute shader to draw)
- Chapter 3 - Vulkan mesh drawing (Draws meshes using the graphics pipeline)
- Chapter 4 - Textures and better descriptor set management
- Chapter 5 - Full GLTF scene loading and high performance rendering