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Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan
Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan

Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan: Develop a modern rendering engine from first principles to state-of-the-art techniques

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  • Use a pre-built "Raptor" engine to abstract tedious aspects like file systems, memory allocation, and utility functions
  • Delve into advanced graphics programming by taking advantage of Vulkan's cutting-edge features, including mesh shaders and ray tracing
  • Optimize your engine without reinventing the wheel
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Vulkan is now an established and flexible multi-platform graphics API. It has been adopted in many industries, including game development, medical imaging, movie productions, and media playback but learning it can be a daunting challenge due to its low-level, complex nature. Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan is designed to help you overcome this difficulty, providing a practical approach to learning one of the most advanced graphics APIs. In Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan, you’ll focus on building a high-performance rendering engine from the ground up. You’ll explore Vulkan’s advanced features, such as pipeline layouts, resource barriers, and GPU-driven rendering, to automate tedious tasks and create efficient workflows. Additionally, you'll delve into cutting-edge techniques like mesh shaders and real-time ray tracing, elevating your graphics programming to the next level. By the end of this book, you’ll have a thorough understanding of modern rendering engines to confidently handle large-scale projects. Whether you're developing games, simulations, or visual effects, this guide will equip you with the skills and knowledge to harness Vulkan’s full potential.

Who is this book for?

This book is for professional graphics and game developers who want to gain in-depth knowledge about how to write a modern and performant rendering engine in Vulkan. Familiarity with basic concepts of graphics programming (i.e. matrices, vectors, etc.) and fundamental knowledge of Vulkan are required.

What you will learn

  • Understand resources management and modern bindless techniques
  • Get comfortable with how a frame graph works and know its advantages
  • Explore how to render efficiently with many light sources
  • Discover how to integrate variable rate shading
  • Understand the benefits and limitations of temporal anti-aliasing
  • Get to grips with how GPU-driven rendering works
  • Explore and leverage ray tracing to improve render quality

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Salim Pamukcu Feb 06, 2024
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this is an excellent book which you understanding from the beginning ; including the build systems, how to get the drivers and very useful information that can be used if you are dealing with Vulkan Api
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Very well explained with good examples and useful code.
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Zach Peterson Apr 16, 2023
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Reading through this book has been a pleasure, I've been impressed by how well these advanced topics have been explain with not only text, but with images and code. You learn topics such as multi-threading, ray tracing, and temporal anti-aliasing.
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Anton Oct 20, 2024
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Extremely good written! I'm not Vulkan fun and bought this book only just to review new render techs, anyway it was cool to read it.I would add an addition 'star' in review for organized code samples. Despite duplicated sources, it was pleasant to play with sources without making an own repo to track changes.NOTE: ideas in this book supposed to be used by the Top GPU for current day( some samples only for NVidia GPU ). Samples work fine, but for using them with Intel's GPU( or other mobile GPU ), you need to fix some Vulkan stuffs. I saw it as homework for every chapter but can be kinda confused for first impression.
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OB2K Jan 26, 2024
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It's a bit advanced for my son of 11 year but he acknowledges that it is definitely worthed to have in collection. I will be looking forward to beginner's book for him. Thanks.
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