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Vulkan Abstraction Library

V0.02.1

VAL is still in the Alpha stage and likely contains bugs; use it at your own risk.

The Vulkan Abstraction Library is an experimental abstraction layer written atop the Vulkan Graphics API written almost exclusively in C++. It was built to simplify the process of developing and maintaining Vulkan programs while still keeping most of the functionality and performance that Vulkan provides.

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Examples

VAL/Tests contains several basic examples of the features provided by VAL, including but not limited to:

  • Graphics Pipelines
  • Compute Pipelines
  • Subpasses
  • Render Targets
  • Push Constants
  • Image Samplers (Combined, Immutable, Standalone), Image Views, Images
  • Mipmapping & Anisotropy
  • Depth Buffering
  • Instancing
  • Dynamic States (SCISSOR, VIEWPORT, LINE_WIDTH, DEPTH BIAS, DEPTH_BOUNDS, BLEND_CONSTANTS, CULL_MODE, TOPOLOGY)
  • SSBOS
  • UBOS
  • Array bindings
  • Utilities for loading .obj meshes
  • Specialization Constants
  • Push Descriptors

Building and Linking

Compiling VAL is rather straighforward; included is a python script to install all external dependencies (except for the Vulkan SDK, the instructions to install this are given in the dependency installer)

VAL\TOOLS> py installDeps.py

VAL builds to a linked library titled "VAL.lib" located in your configuration directory. For example, if you're building for x64 and debug, the VAL .lib will be located under "VAL/x64/Debug"

Contributing

The Vulkan Abstraction Library is in a relatively early stage of development and help is greatly appreciated. To get started with development, refer to VAL/notes/to-do.txt and the issues page.

The Vulkan Abstraction Library is missing the following features:

- Proper Queue Ownership Transfer
- Proper optimization for Semaphore wait stages
- Raytracing support
- Multi-threaded rendering
- SSBO & UBO array binding
- Externally Sourced Buffers
- Pipeline disk caching
- Dynamic Rendering