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Table of Contents

The book is structured in the following chapters:

• Chapter 00: Vulkan introduction and book pre-requisites.
• Chapter 01: Describes the basic scaffolding code to support rendering.
• Chapter 02: We start with the first Vulkan pieces of code that will create a Vulkan instance.
• Chapter 03: We continue with the definition of more basic Vulkan concepts such as the physical and Logical devices, surfaces and queues.
• Chapter 04: The key mechanism to present images to the screen is presented: the Swap chain.
• Chapter 05: In this chapter we will setup the basic structures for rendering (render passes, command buffers and the synchronization mechanisms).
• Chapter 06: In this chapter we define the classes required to define the vertices, use the graphics pipeline and create shaders. We will draw our first shape to the screen (a triangle).
• Chapter 07: In this chapter we go 3D by implementing depth testing and add windows resizing support.
• Chapter 08: In this chapter we add support for loading complex 3D models using Assimp and textures.
• Chapter 09: We will automatically generate mipmaps, add support for transparent objects, add a camera to move around the scene and use dynamic uniform objects.
• Chapter 10: Deferred rendering (I).
• Chapter 11: Deferred rendering (II).
• Chapter 12: Vulkan Memory Allocator and specialization constants.
• Chapter 13: Cascade shadows.
• Chapter 14: Animation.
• Chapter 15: Render of GUI elements through ImGui.
• Chapter 16: This chapter starts the way to a bind-less render through indirect drawing.
• Chapter 17: Sound with OpenAL.
• Appendix 01: This chapter provides some insights on how to troubleshoot a loss of device error.
• Appendix 02: This chapter provides a simple 3D game to put everything together