Resources for learning the Vulkan API?
14 hours ago, ForsakenLive said:This is the best place to go to:
https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/xhtml/vkspec.html
They made it, they know how it works. This is official documentation.
14 hours ago, AresKrieger said:Same thing happened with open gl, it's a decent api and in many aspects better than the dx of it's time, but the info on it is scarce and scattered
Anyway I found a quick reference guide that may or may not be useful https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/refguide/Vulkan-1.0-web.pdf
9 hours ago, mathijs727 said:For me, the lack of good documentation is the reason why I started learning d3d12 instead of Vulkan.
For OpenGL, beginners also have to rely on external tutorial websites.
Unfortunately, not many exist for Vulkan that are complete.
I think a good place to start is:
vulkan-tutorial.com
So in summary, there isn't a lot of good documentation for Vulkan. While it is an amazing API i'm sure there just isn't enough resources for learning it just like it's predecessor OpenGL. I'd like to thank everybody for these answers as they are all super helpful and useful.
For anyone looking for more resources, I found a cheap $6.00 book on Amazon that is worth a read: https://goo.gl/5zgmVc
While I personally can't say if the book is really good at explaining Vulkan in detail, it's only $6.00 and is worth it in my opinion to pick up and skim through.
As explained in the comments above, vulkan isn't where anyone should be starting out. While I don't think anyone should be making their first project with vulkan, it doesn't hurt to study and learn for the future. I plan on using this experience to become a even better programmer.
If anyone has more resources they'd like to share please do and i'll ad them into this post.
Thank you
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