evulkan; a Vulkan graphics library

Bournemouth University MSc Computer Animation and Visual Effects 2019/2020 master's project.

Vulkan is a low-level graphics and compute API which aims to provide users with faster draw speeds by removing overhead from the driver. The user is expected to explicitly provide the details previously generated by the driver. The resulting extra code can be difficult to understand and taxing to write for beginners, leading to the need for a helper library - evulkan.

evulkan is for newcomers to Vulkan and helps with setting up some of the more esoteric components of Vulkan including the swapchain, synchronization objects and the command buffers. It is suited to multithreaded programming.

Requirements

evulkan requires the tinyobjloader library (https://github.com/tinyobjloader/tinyobjloader) and the stb_image library (https://github.com/nothings/stb).

Installation

evulkan is built and installed using CMake. Create a build directory at the root of the folder, change to that directory, run cmake .., followed by make, followed by make install. See the instructions below for more information.

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ make install

The evulkan library will then be installed to your computer, along with the necessary header files.

Use

The examples directory within the resulting build directory contain examples of how to use evulkan. You can run the examples as following:

 triangle$ ./triangle
multipass$ ./multipass --num_threads 3
      obj$ ./ obj