Developed during my time at Cologne University of Applied Sciences (Start: SS2022)
WARNING : This README is outdated.
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After cloning this repo there are a couple of other tasks which need to be done before executing this project. First off, the Vulkan SDK must be installed on your Operating System. The regarding SDK might be downloaded from here.
Currently this project uses version 1.3 of Vulkan.
Since the goal is to create a cross-platform project with dynamically linked libraries most of the required 3rd party libraries aren't included in the project. The following table shows which other libraries aside from Vulkan are necessary and how they are included.
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Assimp | stb_image.h |
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ImGui is already coming with this repo, but the other libraries need to be installed somewhere on your device. In the next step you will work with CMake Gui to create a build file to then install the respective library on your device. After that, you have to create global variables pointing to the particular installation path.
After opening CMake's GUI you have to select the folders containing the GLM Repo as the source and decide where you want to store the build. Next up, press Configure and stick with the default options. Now you ought to make some changes to the highlighted values and press Configure again what result should look like in the below image. Finally, you press Generate to create the final build folder containing a sln file that needs to be opened to install the library.
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"Where to build the binaries?" => folder with the sln file that needs to be opened in Visual Studio to install GLM
"CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX" => the actual installation path after installing GLM with Visual Studio
Just follow the same procedure as always above.
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Just follow the same procedure as explained for GLM.
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This example displays how to create globale variables on Windows.
WARNING: YOU NEED TO NAME THE VARIABLES EXACTLY LIKE SHOWN IN THE UPCOMING IMAGE!
They hold a path value that is located inside the installation folder of GLM and GLFW.
After finally completing the entire groundwork for this project, you have to open its folder in Visual Studio. You will find a toplevel CMakeLists.txt. Open this file and click inside the text. Then press Ctrl+S resulting in CMake to be compiled. A successful compiling might look like this output:
To start the project you are required to open app.cpp in ../Procedural-Generation-with-Vulkan/applications/demo/src and press the green filled triangle.
