Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook E-Book

Sergey Kosarevsky

• Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 902

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Written by experts with decades of rendering experience, this cookbook equips you with practical, hands-on recipes to master modern 3D graphics development by using bindless Vulkan.
Focusing on Vulkan 1.3, this second edition starts by setting up your development environment, and quickly transitions to building a robust 3D rendering framework using self-contained recipes. Each recipe helps you incrementally enhance your codebase, integrating a variety of 3D rendering techniques and algorithms into a cohesive project. You’ll get to grips with core techniques, such as glTF 2.0 physically based rendering, image-based lighting, and GPU-driven rendering. The chapters help you grasp advanced topics, including glTF animations, screen-space rendering techniques, and optimization strategies. You’ll also learn how to use glTF 2.0 advanced PBR extensions and handle complex geometry data, ensuring your rendering engine is both powerful and performant. These new additions will enable you to create dynamic and realistic 3D graphics environments, fully utilizing Vulkan’s capabilities.
By the end of this 3D rendering book, you’ll have gained an improved understanding of best practices used in modern graphic APIs and be able to create fast and versatile 3D rendering frameworks.

Leseprobe

Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook

Second Edition

Implement expert-level techniques for high-performance graphics with Vulkan

Sergey Kosarevsky

Alexey Medvedev

Viktor Latypov

Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook

Second Edition

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Second edition: February 2025

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Dedicated to my grandmother, Liudmila Fedorovna Sitorkina, and my mother, Irina Leonidovna Kosarevskaya.

– Sergey Kosarevsky

Dedicated to my family, friends, colleagues and Khronos fellows. I’m thankful, grateful and blessed to have you all in my life!

– Alexey Medvedev

Foreword

In the modern ocean of GPU APIs, Vulkan is gaining popularity for rendering, thanks to its high performance and cross-platform nature. Thanks to the dedication of the authors, this book covers a lot of ground, from the very first steps to modern and advanced topics. A graphics programmer who wants to start with Vulkan can find an easy-to-follow guide on how to set up the system and get to the first frame. A seasoned practitioner can find modern practices of physically based rendering, advanced resource management, and GPU-side optimizations. What I really like is the “There’s more…” section at the end of every section, where the authors make the topic truly open-ended, leaving useful references, suggestions, and room for you to improve upon the material in the future.

One thing that makes this book special is its practicality, with the abundance of code available and explained right in the book. This way, you can both immediately see how Vulkan works and read about the reasons behind it. The book also goes way beyond just the API level, introducing higher-level rendering pipeline architecture and related concepts, such as the material system or geometry and asset formats. This enables you to be able to write not just a Vulkan-based renderer but also a small end-to-end experience with user interaction and advanced content.

The authors are well-renowned experts in the field with a lot of experience writing real-time engines and shipping AAA game titles, so you are in good hands. I was delighted to see the second edition of this book coming out with more elaborate and advanced topics. If you were looking for a comprehensive handbook on Vulkan and modern real-time rendering, you are holding it!

Anton Kaplanyan

VP, Graphics Research at Intel Corp.

Contributors

About the authors

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.

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to my dedicated reviewer and friend, Alexander Pavlov, for his incredible commitment over the past 13 years, meticulously reviewing all our books. I also extend my sincere thanks to all my friends, colleagues, and reviewers whose support made this book possible!

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.

I would like to first and foremost thank my family for their continued support, patience, and encouragement throughout the long process of writing this book.

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++.

About the reviewers

Marco Castorina is the co-author of Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan. He has been working on graphics since completing his Masters in Digital Games at the Dublin Institute of Technology. First as a hobby and then as his day to day job when he joined Samsung as a driver developer. Here he got familiar with Vulkan and mobile rendering architecture. Later he developed a 2D and 3D renderer in Vulkan from scratch for a leading media-server company. He currently works on the games graphics performance team at AMD, focusing on DX12. In his spare time he keeps up to date with the latest techniques in real-time graphics, likes to cook and make music.

David Sena is a Graphics Technnical Director at NaturalMotion where he works on the CSR Racing game series. Before that, he was a Senior Graphics Software Engineer at Samsung R&D UK where he worked on solutions for different mobile devices and platforms. While at Samsung, David did research on solutions for global illumination, point clouds and VR/AR. David has been working as a graphics software engineer for over 12 years, with a focus on real-time rendering as well as developing and researching novel graphics solutions for mobile and handheld console platforms.

Alexander Pavlov is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with over 20 years of experience in industrial software development. He specializes in large-scale system design, many of the systems he has worked on are used daily by millions of people. His areas of interest include compiler theory and 3D graphics. Alexander also contributed as a technical reviewer and proofreader for the Android NDK Game Development Cookbook and the 3D Graphic Rendering Cookbook (1st ed.), published by Packt.

Contents

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Get in touch

Establishing a Build Environment

Getting the most out of this book – get to know your free benefits

Setting up our development environment on Microsoft Windows

Getting ready

How to do it...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2022

Git

CMake

Python

There’s more...

Setting up our development environment on Linux

Getting ready

How to do it...

Installing the Vulkan SDK for Windows and Linux

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Managing dependencies

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There’s more...

Getting the demo data

How to do it…

Creating utilities for CMake projects

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Using the GLFW library

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There’s more...

Multithreading with Taskflow

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Compiling Vulkan shaders at runtime

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There’s more...

Compressing textures into the BC7 format

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Getting Started with Vulkan

Technical requirements

Initializing Vulkan instance and graphical device

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Initializing Vulkan swapchain

Getting ready

How to do it...

Setting up Vulkan debugging capabilities

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more…

Using Vulkan command buffers

Getting ready…

How to do it...

How it works…

There’s more…

Initializing Vulkan shader modules

Getting ready

How to do it...

Initializing Vulkan pipelines

Getting ready...

How to do it...

How it works…

There’s more…

Working with Vulkan Objects

Technical requirements

Dealing with buffers in Vulkan

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

Implementing staging buffers

Getting ready…

How to do it…

There’s more…

Using texture data in Vulkan

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

There’s more…

Storing Vulkan objects

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Using Vulkan descriptor indexing

How to do it...

How it works…

There’s more…

Adding User Interaction and Productivity Tools

Technical requirements

Rendering ImGui user interfaces

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

Integrating Tracy into C++ applications

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using Tracy GPU profiling

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding a frames-per-second counter

Getting ready

How to do it...

Using cube map textures in Vulkan

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Working with a 3D camera and basic user interaction

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There is more...

Adding camera animations and motion

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There’s more...

Implementing an immediate-mode 3D drawing canvas

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

Rendering on-screen graphs with ImGui and ImPlot

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Putting it all together into a Vulkan application

Getting ready

How to do it...

Working with Geometry Data

Technical requirements

Generating level-of-detail meshes using MeshOptimizer

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

There’s more...

Implementing programmable vertex pulling

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Rendering instanced geometry

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There’s more…

Implementing instanced meshes with compute shaders

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There’s more…

Implementing an infinite grid GLSL shader

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Integrating tessellation into the graphics pipeline

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Organizing mesh data storage

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There’s more...

Implementing automatic geometry conversion

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Indirect rendering in Vulkan

Getting ready

How to do it...

Generating textures in Vulkan using compute shaders

Getting ready

How to do it...

Implementing computed meshes

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

There’s more…

Physically Based Rendering Using the glTF 2.0 Shading Model

An introduction to glTF 2.0 physically based shading model

Getting ready

What is PBR?

Light-object interactions

Energy conservation

Surface properties

Types of reflection

Transmission

Fresnel equation

Microfacets

What is a material?

glTF PBR specification

There’s more...

Rendering unlit glTF 2.0 materials

Getting ready

How to do it…

Precomputing BRDF look-up tables

Getting ready

Why precompute?

How to do it...

How it works...

There’s more...

Precomputing irradiance maps and diffuse convolution

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Implementing the glTF 2.0 metallic-roughness shading model

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There’s more...

Implementing the glTF 2.0 specular-glossiness shading model

What is specular-glossiness?

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Advanced PBR Extensions

Introduction to glTF PBR extensions

Getting ready

How is the glTF 2.0 PBR model designed?

Getting ready

How to do it…

There’s more...

Implementing the KHR_materials_clearcoat extension

Clearcoat parameters

Specular BRDF for the clearcoat layer

Getting ready

How to do it…

There’s more...

Implementing the KHR_materials_sheen extension

Sheen parameters

Simulating the sheen effect

Getting ready

How to do it…

There’s more...

Implementing the KHR_materials_transmission extension

Transmission parameters

Transmission BTDF

Getting ready

How to do it…

There is more…

Implementing the KHR_materials_volume extension

Volumetric parameters

Getting ready

How to do it…

There is more…

Implementing the KHR_materials_ior extension

IOR parameters

Getting ready

How to do it…

There is more…

Implementing the KHR_materials_specular extension

Specular parameters

Specular-Glossiness conversion

Getting ready

How to do it…

There is more…

Implementing the KHR_materials_emissive_strength extension

Getting ready

How to do it…

Extend analytical lights support with KHR_lights_punctual

Image-Based Lighting vs Punctual lights

Getting ready

How to do it…

Graphics Rendering Pipeline

How not to do a scene graph

Using data-oriented design for a scene graph

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Loading and saving a scene graph

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Implementing transformation trees

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Implementing a material system

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Implementing automatic material conversion

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There’s more...

Using descriptor indexing and arrays of textures in Vulkan

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Implementing indirect rendering with Vulkan

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Putting it all together into a scene editing application

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There’s more...

Deleting nodes and merging scene graphs

Getting ready

How to do it...

Rendering large scenes

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There’s more...

glTF Animations

Technical requirements

Introduction to node-based animations

Introduction to skeletal animations

Importing skeleton and animation data

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Implementing the glTF animation player

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There’s more…

Doing skeletal animations in compute shaders

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Introduction to morph targets

Loading glTF morph targets data

Getting ready

How to do it…

Adding morph targets support

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There’s more…

Animation blending

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There’s more…

Image-Based Techniques

Technical requirements

Implementing offscreen rendering in Vulkan

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Implementing full-screen triangle rendering

Getting ready

How to do it…

There’s more...

Implementing shadow maps

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There’s more…

Implementing MSAA in Vulkan

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There’s more…

Implementing screen space ambient occlusion

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

There’s more...

Implementing HDR rendering and tone mapping

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

There’s more...

Implementing HDR light adaptation

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Advanced Rendering Techniques and Optimizations

Technical requirements

Refactoring indirect rendering

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Doing frustum culling on the CPU

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There’s more...

Doing frustum culling on the GPU with compute shaders

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There’s more...

Implementing shadows for directional lights

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more...

Implementing order-independent transparency

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There’s more…

Loading texture assets asynchronously

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

There’s more...

Putting it all together into a Vulkan demo

Getting ready

How to do it...

There’s more…

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