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Porting Detroit Become Human from PlayStation® 4 to PC

In this three part series AMD and Quantic Dream break down the process of porting the hit title Detroit Become Human to PC.

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Exploring ray tracing techniques in Wolfenstein: Youngblood

Get an in-depth look at hybrid rendering in Wolfenstein: Youngblood

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The essential resources for Vulkan development

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Thanks to the support of the Khronos membership and our passionate developer community, there is a full set of well-supported developer information and educational resources to help quickly get you up and running with your Vulkan application development.

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The essential resources for Vulkan development

Key Resources

Thanks to the support of the Khronos membership and our passionate developer community, there is a full set of well-supported developer information and educational resources to help quickly get you up and running with your Vulkan application development.

The most popular tutorials for getting started

Vulkan Tutorials

Vulkan is by design a low-level API that removes many of the abstractions found in previous generation graphics APIs. This is great for delivering maximum performance, but has the side effect of exposing more complexity to the developer. Fortunately, several excellent tutorials exist to help clear this hurdle and get productive quickly.

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The most popular tutorials for getting started

Vulkan Tutorials

Vulkan is by design a low-level API that removes many of the abstractions found in previous generation graphics APIs. This is great for delivering maximum performance, but has the side effect of exposing more complexity to the developer. Fortunately, several excellent tutorials exist to help clear this hurdle and get productive quickly.

  • New to Vulkan? This Vulkan tutorial will teach you the basics of using the Vulkan graphics and compute API.

    The ideas behind Vulkan are similar to those of Direct3D 12 and Metal, but Vulkan has the advantage of being fully cross-platform and allows you to develop for Windows, Linux and Android at the same time.

    Come take the tour to start familiarizing yourself with this powerful graphics API can deliver outstanding performance no matter what you are developing for.

    he Khronos Vulkan® Tutorial is based on the "Vulkan Tutorial" by Alexander Overvoorde licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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  • Sascha has developed a comprehensive collection of open source C++ examples for Vulkan, the new generation graphics and compute API from Khronos.

    These are a great way to get familiar with the basics of Vulkan from drawing your first triangle to learning many of the key constructs of the API (pipelines, descriptor sets, render passes, and much more).

    These samples are an even more effective resource when used alongside the Vulkan Samples.

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  • For some good perspective on how to think about Vulkan and the steps needed to get proficient, check out this blog by Jeremy Young.

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  • For those who have a good grounding in existing APIs (e.g. D3D11 and GL) and understand the concepts of multithreading, staging resources and synchronisation but want to know how to implement these with Vulkan.

    The RenderDoc team provides us with a whirlwind tour of what the main Vulkan concepts look like.

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  • Vulkan’s barrier system is unique as it not only requires you to provide what resources are transitioning, but also specify a source and destination pipeline stage.

    This allows for more fine-grained control of when a transition is executed. However, you can also leave quite a lot of performance on the table if you just use the simple method. This tutorial will cover how to handle this properly.

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  • AMD sponsored GPUOpen provides a set of resources to help you learn about Vulkan's low-level graphics APIs for creating games and other graphics applications.

    It also includes a number of developer case studies on developing with and porting to Vulkan.

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  • The goal of this guide is to understand Vulkan correctly, and act as a stepping stone for then working in your own projects.

    With a focus around dynamic rendering, this guide is intended to act as a strong base code for a game engine

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  • Arseny Kapoulkine covers a wide range of topics in this break down of Vulkan performance. Originally part of the GPU Zen 2 book this section is now available for free and a must read for developers looking to squeeze the most out of Vulkan.

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  • Brendan Galea has created a nice set of video tutorials that walk developers through a number of Vulkan technical topics including introdcutory topics like opening a window to more advanced topics like Fragment Interpolation, Pipeline Setup, Swap Chains, Push Constants, etc.

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  • A Vulkan Lecture Series from Johannes Unterguggenberger explaining some of the basics for Vulkan developers getting started with Vulkan.

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Guides to best practice Vulkan development

Vulkan Best Practice

Here you'll find guidelines and tips for how to get the best performance from your target platform direct from the hardware manufacturer.

Vulkan Best Practice

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Guides to best practice Vulkan development

Vulkan Best Practice

Here you'll find guidelines and tips for how to get the best performance from your target platform direct from the hardware manufacturer.

Latest Videos on Vulkan

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From the experts: Hear real-world examples of how developers are getting the most from Vulkan as well as tips and tricks from hardware vendors.

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Vulkan Documentation Just Got Easier!
We have gathered all the key documents including the specifications, guides, tutorials and samples into a single website to allow developers to easily find the right documents and navigate quickly to the information they need.

January 16th at 5:46pm

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My toy renderer
Alongside my latest papers I released the underlying renderer as open source. It is a real-time deferred renderer with ray traced shadows based on Vulkan and written in C. I'm writing this blog post series in hopes that others may learn from it as well. And maybe some others want to toy with this code base.

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New to Graphics Programming?

If you're just starting out in your Graphics Programming journey, we've listed a few recommended resources to help get you spun up on the basics.

New to Graphics Programming?

New to Graphics Programming?

If you're just starting out in your Graphics Programming journey, we've listed a few recommended resources to help get you spun up on the basics.