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Michael Dunsky
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Michael Dunsky is an educated electronics technician, game developer, and console porting programmer with more than 20 years of programming experience. He started at the age of 14 with BASIC, adding on his way Assembly language, C, C++, Java, Python, VHDL, OpenGL, GLSL, and Vulkan to his portfolio. During his career, he also gained extensive knowledge in virtual machines, server operation, infrastructure automation, and other DevOps topics. Michael holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the FernUniversität in Hagen, focused on computer graphics, parallel programming and software systems.
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Gabor Szauer
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Gabor Szauer

Gabor Szauer has been making games since 2010. He graduated from Full Sail University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in game development. Gabor maintains an active Twitter presence, and maintains a programming-oriented game development blog. Gabor's previously published books are Game Physics Programming Cookbook and Lua Quick Start Guide, both published by Packt.
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Differences and similarities between OpenGL 4 and Vulkan

It shouldn’t be a surprise that Vulkan is unable to create any kind of rendering miracles when used instead of OpenGL, as the underlying hardware remains the same. However, there are a number of improvements in the management of the GPU.

Let’s take a look at some of the most visible points.

Technical similarities

These are a few technical similarities – things you may find familiar when switching from OpenGL to Vulkan:

  • The framebuffer works quite similarly in Vulkan and OpenGL. You create a special object and attach one or more textures (images in Vulkan) to it, and the GPU renders the picture to it.
  • If you use deferred rendering, a technique where different intermediate steps write their passes into buffers, this is similar to a Vulkan render pass and its subpasses.
  • The shader stages of the GPU are the same. We are using only vertex and fragment shaders, but the remaining stages...
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Michael Dunsky

Michael Dunsky is an educated electronics technician, game developer, and console porting programmer with more than 20 years of programming experience. He started at the age of 14 with BASIC, adding on his way Assembly language, C, C++, Java, Python, VHDL, OpenGL, GLSL, and Vulkan to his portfolio. During his career, he also gained extensive knowledge in virtual machines, server operation, infrastructure automation, and other DevOps topics. Michael holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the FernUniversität in Hagen, focused on computer graphics, parallel programming and software systems.
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Gabor Szauer

Gabor Szauer has been making games since 2010. He graduated from Full Sail University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in game development. Gabor maintains an active Twitter presence, and maintains a programming-oriented game development blog. Gabor's previously published books are Game Physics Programming Cookbook and Lua Quick Start Guide, both published by Packt.
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