vulkan_backend

Vulkan library with focus on:

• Performance
• Ease of use
• Speed of development

It is designed to eliminate the need to write and debug Vulkan code while keeping ability to leverage full explicitness of the Vulkan API. Users can focus on creating high-performance, low-level graphics applications without getting bogged down by Vulkan's setup and management processes.

Features:

• Familiar Vulkan-like interface
• Automatic physical device and queue selection including separate transfer and compute queues if requested.
• Runtime shader compilation / loading from cache and pipeline creation in a single CreatePipeline function.
• Use of VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library if available for fast pipeline loading from precompiled parts with shader stage hashing from description.
• Fully automatic and efficient resource management based on smart pointers with custom deleters. Zero memory leaks or double free possible.
• Customizable bindless descriptors that are updated on resource creation.
• Easy integration with one header or using C++20 named module import vulkan_backend;
• No exceptions or unnecessary C++ features overuse.

Examples

You can find examples in examples/ directory of this repository. Also look at the project that uses this library: NRay

Requirements

• Vukan SDK
• Compiler with C++20 support. It is possible to tell the library to use C++23 std module by defining VB_USE_STD_MODULE=1

Dependencies:

This library only depends on Vulkan Memory Allocator for buffer and image creation.

Installation

1. Clone the Repository:

git clone https://github.com/noir-nik/vulkan_backend.git
cd vulkan_backend
git submodule update --init --recursive

2. Build the Library:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . -j8

Using CMake vulkan_backend can be added to the project like most other libraries.

License

The vulkan_backend library is licensed under the MIT License.