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Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook

You're reading from Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook Implement expert-level techniques for high-performance graphics with Vulkan

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803248110

Length 714 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

OpenGL

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Authors (2):

Alexey Medvedev

Sergey Kosarevsky

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Establishing a Build Environment

2. Getting Started with Vulkan FREE CHAPTER

3. Working with Vulkan Objects

4. Adding User Interaction and Productivity Tools

5. Working with Geometry Data

6. Physically Based Rendering Using the glTF 2.0 Shading Model

7. Advanced PBR Extensions

8. Graphics Rendering Pipeline

9. glTF Animations

10. Image-Based Techniques

11. Advanced Rendering Techniques and Optimizations

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

13. Index

Rendering ImGui user interfaces

ImGui is a popular bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++ and is essential to the interactive debugging of graphics apps. ImGui integration comes as a part of the LightweightVK library. In this recipe, we go step by step through the code and show how to create an example app with ImGui rendering.

Getting ready

It is recommended to revisit the Using Vulkan descriptor indexing recipe from Chapter 3, and also recall the Vulkan basics described in the other recipes of that chapter.

This recipe covers the source code of lightweight/lvk/HelpersImGui.cpp. The demo code for this recipe is in Chapter04/01_ImGui.

How to do it...

Let us start with a minimalistic ImGui demo application and take a look at how to use the ImGui Vulkan wrapper provided by LightweightVK:

First, we create an lvk::ImGuiRenderer object. It takes in a pointer to our lvk::IContext, the name of the default font, and the default font size in pixels...

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Authors (3)

Sergey Kosarevsky

Sergey Kosarevsky

Sergey Kosarevsky is a former rendering lead at Ubisoft RedLynx. He currently leads Vulkan development at Meta. He worked in the mobile industry at SPB Software, Yandex, Layar and Blippar, TWNKLS, and DAQRI, where he designed and implemented real-time rendering technology. He has more than 20 years of software development experience and more than 12 years of mobile and embedded 3D graphics experience. In his Ph.D. thesis, Sergey employed computer vision to solve mechanical engineering problems. He is also a co-author of several books on 3D graphics and mobile software development in C++, including “3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook”.

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Alexey Medvedev

Alexey Medvedev

Alexey Medvedev is the AR Tech Lead at Meta, with over 20 years of experience in software development, primarily in game development. He has worked as an engine, graphics, and rendering engineer at renowned companies like Crytek, Blizzard, and Hangar 13, contributing to the release of several AAA games. At the time of writing this book, Alexey also serves as the Khronos Chair of the 3D Formats Working Group, which develops the glTF standards..

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Viktor Latypov

Viktor Latypov

Viktor Latypov is a software engineer specializing in embedded C/C++, 3D graphics, and computer vision. With more than 15 years of software development experience and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, he has implemented a number of real-time renderers for medical and automotive applications over the last 10 years. Together with Sergey, he has co-authored two books on mobile software development in C++.

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