Intro to Vulkan - Building a Vulkan renderer | Cross Platform Game Engine Development

Finally, we reach one of our bigger lessons: Intro to Vulkan. This time, I provide a fairly in-depth intro to the Vulkan API and go through the process of adding a Vulkan renderer to our game engine.

I thought about splitting this beast into multiple videos, but figured Youtube's Chapter system does a good enough job of allowing you to jump around to what you're looking for.

Application Repository:
https://github.com/mauville-technologies/youtube_project/releases/tag/tutorial-03

Engine Repository:
https://github.com/mauville-technologies/youtube-engine/releases/tag/tutorial-03

Heavily referenced: https://vkguide.dev

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:59 Getting Libraries
9:15 Vulkan Window
14:03 Detour: Namespacing
16:55 Renderer Interface
19:03 Provide Renderer Service
24:03 Vulkan Renderer Class
26:50 Setting up Render loop
30:45 Vulkan Helper files
37:08 Initialize Vulkan Core
1:02:11 Summary: Vulkan Core
1:02:40 Create Swapchain
1:12:24 Live Debugging =D
1:16:56 Summary: Errors we just fixed
1:17:51 Clean up on shut down
1:22:31 Command Queue, Pool, and Buffer
1:37:00 Setup Render Pass
1:47:00 Summary: Render Pass
1:49:31 Create Framebuffers
1:58:43 Render Frames (Clear Colour!)
2:24:38 It Renders!
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