Vulkan

[Mano]

If you are interested in reading the Vulkan tutorial click on this link:

https://vulkan-tutorial.com/

 

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[artik]

At long last I have a square being rendered to the screen. Might not sound like much but it is a HUGE step in the porting to Vulkan because that triangle is being displayed with my existing engine.

I stared the port around the 1st of May.

HiTech

Its time...

That means Linux port is going to be much simpler :-) (or at least it will run with Wine/Steam)!!!

[Eagler]

At long last I have a square being rendered to the screen. Might not sound like much but it is a HUGE step in the porting to Vulkan because that triangle is being displayed with my existing engine.

I stared the port around the 1st of May.

HiTech

Great news I guess...

What does it mean to the rest of us?

What does it do to improve the game and what is your eta for it's implementation?

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Eagler

[svaalbar]

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Hell yeah we are. You hate us cuz you ain't us.

[fd ski]

Great news I guess...

What does it mean to the rest of us?

What does it do to improve the game and what is your eta for it's implementation?

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Eagler

Taking a guess here and could be way off base:
1. no need to maintain and update existing graphics engine and fix bugs in it. Using standard engine like vulcan gives you more up to date features and bug fixes. Given that currently operation of HTC is limited in programming capacity, having large chunk of code offloaded to market proven solution will save lot of coding time.

2. better compatibility with existing/new hardware GPUs.

3. Possibly better performance overall as Vulcan is optimized for that.

Overall it seems like a move in right direction given limited coding capacity, i was wondering if HT would attempt to move entire game engine into more of opensource/market accepted platform so that he wouldn't have to maintain things like map editors/skin editors/etc.

 

[Eagler]

Thanks  fd ski

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Eagler

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List of nvidia's graphics card support for Vulcan :

https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver

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[800nate800]

He's taking the game to Android and Iphone.

this better be a joke

[svaalbar]

this better be a joke

It is. I'm a huge nerd and stoked about better performance via Vulkan.

[artik]

It is. I'm a huge nerd and stoked about better performance via Vulkan.

It actually gives great opportunity to support Mac and Linux over steam.

Today lots of games work on Linux/Mac on steam.

[LCADolby]

It is. I'm a huge nerd and stoked about better performance via Vulkan.

I've been finding that it's possible get better Frames Per Second with Vulkan. But, Vulkan isn't very smooth when compared to DX12 under the same conditions, even though DX12 will be running 10-20 FPS less.