Link

This guide does not cover everything you could need, so this is a compilation of high quality vulkan related materials and resources.

Other Tutorials

  • Vulkan-Tutorial. The most popular vulkan tutorial on the internet. Goes a lot more into detail on vulkan initialization, also talks about things we don’t do here.
  • LearnOpenGL. OpenGL tutorial. While we use vulkan, this tutorial talks a lot more about graphics programming basics such as graphics pipeline, transformation math, and lighting techniques. Recommended you try to go through its chapters but using vulkan instead.
  • Filament Engine PBR Documentation. Best in class documentation about high performance PBR lighting shaders.
  • Writing an efficient vulkan renderer. High level overview of good design choices and practices on a Vulkan game engine.

Talks/Slides

Code

  • Sascha Willems Vulkan samples. Great set of vulkan samples, with a lot of features implemented on them.
  • Official Vulkan samples. Newer samples, has tutorials about specific ways of implementing things well.
  • V-EZ. Abandoned. Minimal simplification layer on top of vulkan. Very useful to see how can one abstract vulkan.
  • Filament Engine. Mobile first rendering engine by google. Great vulkan backend for mobile.
  • Niagara Engine. Small vulkan-first rendering engine built on stream. Uses very advanced draw indirect and mesh shader techniques to render huge object counts.
  • Quake 1 Vulkan port. Port of quake 1 engine to vulkan.
  • Doom 3 vulkan port. Port of doom 3 engine to vulkan. More advanced and modern than the quake 1 port.

Debuggers/tools

  • Renderdoc. Vendor agnostic graphics debugger.
  • Nsight Nvidia profiler and debugger.
  • Radeon tools. Profilers and debuggers from AMD.
  • Intel GPA Profiler and debugger from Intel.
  • Tracy. Great profiler library for Cpp programs. It can also profile GPU executions.

Blogs/websites

  • Vulkan Spec Highly necessary resource for information about the API.
  • Vulkan GPU Info Database of specifications for the different GPU vulkan implementations.
  • GPU Open AMD graphics resources and blogposts.
  • Nvidia gameworks Nvidia graphics resources and blogposts/tutorials.
  • TheMaister blog Low level graphics programming blog. Lots of vulkan posts.
  • Bitsquid engine blog Blog of game engine development by the developers of Bitsquid/Stingray game engine. Can be a bit old.
  • OurMachinery engine blog. From the same devs as bitsquid/stingray, their next development blog. A lot of vulkan related articles.