- (At least) Vulkan API version 1.3 must be used. This version greatly reduced the extension/feature fragmentation in the ecosystem and makes the engine both concise and portable.
- The chosen physical device must support the following device features. These features are common in modern hardware and allow for better primitives and API usage.
VkPhysicalDeviceBufferDeviceAddressFeatures- This is the least commonly supported, but enables very powerful memory access models from within shaders.
VkPhysicalDeviceDynamicRenderingFeaturesVkPhysicalDeviceSynchronization2Features
- Ray tracing support is conditioned on device support for the
VK_KHR_ray_tracing_maintenance1extension so that the optimal synchronization flags can be used.
In developing this playground I have seeked best-practices from a handful of sources, but the following were most influential:
- Khronos Vulkan® Tutorial
- Vulkan YouTube Channel, specifically the
Vulkanisedseries has good presentations - Sascha Willems Samples
- Vulkan Synchronization Examples
- The Modern Vulkan Cookbook (2024) by P. Kakkar and M. Maurer
- Referenced source code is available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/The-Modern-Vulkan-Cookbook.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.