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

• Destiny’s Multithreaded Rendering Architecture. Advanced. Talks about the design and general architecture of the game engine for the game Destiny.
• The Devil is in the details Talk about the Doom 2016 render engine. Goes alongside its graphics study
• Rendering the Hellscape of Doom Eternal. Advanced. Doom Eternal engine architecture, bleeding edge Vulkan usage. Goes with the graphics study where the exact details are shown.
• Vulkan Fast Paths, AMD. Intermediate. How vulkan structures map to the AMD GPUs, and whats the fastest approach to use.
• GPU Driven Rendering, NVidia How to use vulkan to do very high object counts for CAD. Also talks about how NVidia gpus execute vulkan.
• Vulkan and DX12, lessons learned. Best practises when using vulkan and directx12 for high performance games.
• Most common mistakes. Slides by AMD talking about common errors by vulkan implementations and how to do them right.

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.