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Preetish Kakkar
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Preetish Kakkar is a senior computer graphics engineer with Adobe and works on the rendering engine that powers products such as Aero, Stager, and After Effects. He has worked at Microsoft, MathWorks, and Stryker, where he co-authored various rendering engines as well as using other engines such as Unreal and Unity. He has more than 15 years of software development experience along with 10+ years in 3D graphics, scientific visualization, and medical imaging.
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Mauricio Maurer is a computer graphics engineer with nearly 20 years of experience working with 2D and 3D rendering, computational geometry, and rasterization in the fields of scientific visualization, CAD/CAM, and social networking. He is currently a graphics software engineer at Meta, helping to develop the next generation of AR/VR devices. Mauricio holds two master's degrees in computer science with a specialization in computer graphics from SUNY Stony Brook, NY, and the Federal University of Parana, Brazil.
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Allocating, recording, and submitting commands

Command buffers are allocated from command pools using the vkAllocateCommandBuffers function. Command buffers must be initialized with the vkBeginCommandBuffer function before being recorded into the buffer and prepared for submission with vkEndCommandBuffer. Commands are recorded into the buffer between those function calls and are executed only after the command buffer is submitted to the device with vkQueueSubmit.

In this recipe, you will learn how to allocate command buffers, how to record commands in the command buffer, and how to submit them for execution on the GPU.

Getting ready

Command buffers are allocated from the VulkanCore::CommandQueueManager class and submitted using the same class. VulkanCore::CommandQueueManager provides basic functions to maintain a set of command buffers for processing.

How to do it…

A command buffer’s life cycle starts with its allocation from a command pool. Once it has...

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Preetish Kakkar

Preetish Kakkar is a senior computer graphics engineer with Adobe and works on the rendering engine that powers products such as Aero, Stager, and After Effects. He has worked at Microsoft, MathWorks, and Stryker, where he co-authored various rendering engines as well as using other engines such as Unreal and Unity. He has more than 15 years of software development experience along with 10+ years in 3D graphics, scientific visualization, and medical imaging.
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Mauricio Maurer

Mauricio Maurer is a computer graphics engineer with nearly 20 years of experience working with 2D and 3D rendering, computational geometry, and rasterization in the fields of scientific visualization, CAD/CAM, and social networking. He is currently a graphics software engineer at Meta, helping to develop the next generation of AR/VR devices. Mauricio holds two master's degrees in computer science with a specialization in computer graphics from SUNY Stony Brook, NY, and the Federal University of Parana, Brazil.
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