Vulkan Learning Resource

這篇主要在於集中整理先前在 Facebook 分享的各類 Vulkan 資源

Tutorial 類

Vulkan Tutorial
相當高品質的 Vulkan 教學網站, 甚至提供了電子書版本
https://vulkan-tutorial.com/

LunarG Tutorial
這是 LunarG 提供的 Vulkan SDK 文件的一部份
https://vulkan.lunarg.com/doc/sdk/latest/linux/tutorial/html/index.html
另外 LunarG 提供了相當有用的 Spec 參照
https://vulkan.lunarg.com/doc/view/latest/linux/vkspec.html

Intel  - API without Secrets: Introduction to Vulkan series
這系列文為 March, 2016 開始連載, 至今都還在更新, Part 7 為 April, 2018 發表, 日後會持續在此更新文章聯結
Part 0: Preface
Part 1: The Beginning
Part 2: Swap Chain
Part 3: First Triangle
Part 4: Vertex Attribute
Part 5: Staging Resource
Part 6: Descriptor Set
Part 7: Uniform Buffers — Using Buffers in Shaders

ARM
Vulkan API Tutorials

Misc
http://ogldev.org/www/tutorial50/tutorial50.html
https://gist.github.com/graphitemaster/e162a24e57379af840d4

主題文章

在各大 GPU vendor 有著許多說明 Vulkan 特定設計或設運作機制的說明文章, 不一定是 programming 教學, 文章都有所要深入探討的主題.

GPUOpen/AMD
以下項目主要是 GPUOpen 頁面上 Vulkan 標籤選取的

• Vulkan Renderpasses
• Using the Vulkan Validation Layers
• Slides from our 「The most common Vulkan mistakes」 talk
• Vulkan Device Memory
• Vulkan barriers explained
• Leveraging asynchronous queues for concurrent execution
• Understanding Vulkan objects
• Reducing Vulkan API call overhead 
• Performance Tweets Series
• Command lists
• Barriers, fences, synchronization
• Shaders, Threading, Compiling 
• Resource Creation 
• Multi-GPU
• Root signature & descriptor sets
• Rendering and Optimizations 
• Debugging & Robustness
• Streaming & Memory Management

Nvidia
以下項目主要透過 Nvidia Developer 頁面的 Vulkan 標籤取得

• Vulkan Shader Resource Binding
• Vulkan Memory Management
• Transitioning from OpenGL to Vulkan
• OpenGL like Vulkan
• Vulkan & OpenGL Threaded CAD Scene Sample
• Vulkan C++ Bindings reloaded
• What's your Vulkan Memory Type?
• Reading Between The Threads: Shader Intrinsics

ARM

• Multi-Threading in Vulkan
• Vulkan & Validation Layers
• Moving to Vulkan : How to Make Your 3D Graphics More Explicit
• Using Compute Post-Processing in Vulkan on Mali

Imagination

• Learn more about the Vulkan API from these five webinars
• Vulkan: Scaling to multiple threads
• Vulkan: Explicit operation and consistent frame times

Intel

• Parallel Techniques in Modeling Particle Systems Using Vulkan API
• Rendering Objects in Parallel Using Vulkan APIs

Khronos

• Moving to Vulkan : How to make your 3D graphics more explicit
• Vulkan Subgroup Tutorial