Vulkan™ Programming Guide

Table of contents

1. About This E-Book
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication Page
5. Contents
6. Figures
7. Tables
8. Listings
9. About This Book
   1. About the Sample Code
   2. Errata
10. Acknowledgments
11. About the Author
12. Chapter 1. Overview of Vulkan
    1. Introduction
    2. Instances, Devices, and Queues
       1. The Vulkan Instance
       2. Vulkan Physical Devices
       3. Physical Device Memory
       4. Device Queues
       5. Creating a Logical Device
    3. Object Types and Function Conventions
    4. Managing Memory
    5. Multithreading in Vulkan
    6. Mathematical Concepts
       1. Vectors and Matrices
       2. Coordinate Systems
    7. Enhancing Vulkan
       1. Layers
       2. Extensions
    8. Shutting Down Cleanly
    9. Summary
13. Chapter 2. Memory and Resources
    1. Host Memory Management
    2. Resources
       1. Buffers
       2. Formats and Support
       3. Images
       4. Resource Views
       5. Destroying Resources
    3. Device Memory Management
       1. Allocating Device Memory
       2. Host Access to Device Memory
       3. Binding Memory to Resources
       4. Sparse Resources
    4. Summary
14. Chapter 3. Queues and Commands
    1. Device Queues
    2. Creating Command Buffers
    3. Recording Commands
    4. Recycling Command Buffers
    5. Submission of Commands
    6. Summary
15. Chapter 4. Moving Data
    1. Managing Resource State
       1. Pipeline Barriers
       2. Global Memory Barriers
       3. Buffer Memory Barriers
       4. Image Memory Barriers
    2. Clearing and Filling Buffers
    3. Clearing and Filling Images
    4. Copying Image Data
    5. Copying Compressed Image Data
    6. Stretching Images
    7. Summary
16. Chapter 5. Presentation
    1. Presentation Extension
    2. Presentation Surfaces
       1. Presentation on Microsoft Windows
       2. Presentation on Xlib-Based Platforms
       3. Presentation with Xcb
    3. Swap Chains
    4. Full-Screen Surfaces
    5. Performing Presentation
    6. Cleaning Up
    7. Summary
17. Chapter 6. Shaders and Pipelines
    1. An Overview of GLSL
    2. An Overview of SPIR-V
       1. Representation of SPIR-V
       2. Handing SPIR-V to Vulkan
    3. Pipelines
       1. Compute Pipelines
       2. Creating Pipelines
       3. Specialization Constants
       4. Accelerating Pipeline Creation
       5. Binding Pipelines
    4. Executing Work
    5. Resource Access in Shaders
       1. Descriptor Sets
       2. Binding Resources to Descriptor Sets
       3. Binding Descriptor Sets
       4. Uniform, Texel, and Storage Buffers
       5. Push Constants
       6. Sampled Images
    6. Summary
18. Chapter 7. Graphics Pipelines
    1. The Logical Graphics Pipeline
    2. Renderpasses
    3. The Framebuffer
    4. Creating a Simple Graphics Pipeline
       1. Graphics Shader Stages
       2. Vertex Input State
       3. Input Assembly
       4. Tessellation State
       5. Viewport State
       6. Rasterization State
       7. Multisample State
       8. Depth and Stencil State
       9. Color Blend State
    5. Dynamic State
    6. Summary
19. Chapter 8. Drawing
    1. Getting Ready to Draw
    2. Vertex Data
    3. Indexed Draws
       1. Index-Only Rendering
       2. Reset Indices
    4. Instancing
    5. Indirect Draws
    6. Summary
20. Chapter 9. Geometry Processing
    1. Tessellation
       1. Tessellation Configuration
       2. Tessellation Variables
       3. Tessellation Example: Displacement Mapping
    2. Geometry Shaders
       1. Cutting Primitives
       2. Geometry Shader Instancing
    3. Programmable Point Size
    4. Line Width and Rasterization
    5. User Clipping and Culling
    6. The Viewport Transformation
    7. Summary
21. Chapter 10. Fragment Processing
    1. Scissor Testing
    2. Depth and Stencil Operations
       1. Depth Testing
       2. Stencil Testing
       3. Early Fragment Tests
    3. Multisample Rendering
       1. Sample Rate Shading
       2. Multisample Resolves
    4. Logic Operations
    5. Fragment Shader Outputs
    6. Color Blending
    7. Summary
22. Chapter 11. Synchronization
    1. Fences
    2. Events
    3. Semaphores
    4. Summary
23. Chapter 12. Getting Data Back
    1. Queries
       1. Executing Queries
       2. Timing Queries
    2. Reading Data with the Host
    3. Summary
24. Chapter 13. Multipass Rendering
    1. Input Attachments
    2. Attachment Contents
       1. Attachment Initialization
       2. Render Areas
       3. Preserving Attachment Content
    3. Secondary Command Buffers
    4. Summary
25. Appendix. Vulkan Functions
26. Glossary
27. Index
28. Code Snippets