With most of the pipeline management stuff out of the way, I've started implementing depth buffering support. The difference isn't very obvious in the screenshots!

#Vulkan #gameengine #gamedev #indiedev

Not much visual progress this month. I've been working on the beginnings of a render graph system which is progressing nicely. Now it's able to render more than 1 type of mesh/shader to the same render target.

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With memory allocation out of the way, I've been working on a custom #glTF loader. It's now able to load basic mesh data, but there is still lot of work to do on it.

For the video, I'm using planet.gltf from the vulkan samples library.

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I've been working on a custom #vulkan memory allocator, for self-teaching. Works better than expected, with block allocation, basic defragmentation, typed memory, virtual map/unmap and more.

But, I recommend using VMA if you want to skip memory management: gpuopen.com/vulkan-memor...

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Many hours have gone into implementing automatic shader binding, but it would have been many more without #RenderDoc. This tool helps immensely in finding issues with your vulkan/DX API calls!

It provides a detailed breakdown of the GPU state for any captured frame.

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Everything is back up and running in my vulkan renderer after implementing automatic shader mapping/binding using the @shader-slang.bsky.social API.

It's now possible to set shader parameters by name instead of using the raw descriptor set/write API.

#vulkan #gameengine #rendering #gamedev

Finally completed the initial implementation of @shader-slang.bsky.social in my engine. Now working on descriptor pool/set management and a shader <-> mesh binding system.

Will hopefully have something nice to show soon!
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No fancy engine stuff to show this month, but I've implemented @shader-slang.bsky.social and currently working on automated shader layout + binding. I feel like I'm almost there!

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I've now have basic texture support working my engine, but also spent a lot of time expanding basic/core features, such as proper handling of command pools/buffers across threads and a destructor queue for GPU resources. Small steps, but making progress!

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My first BlueSky post! - I've been working on a C++ game engine in my spare time, using the Vulkan API. Got instancing working this weekend! #gamedev #indiedev #vulkan