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Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook

You're reading from Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook Implement expert-level techniques for high-performance graphics with Vulkan

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2025

Last Updated in Jul 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803248110

Length 722 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

OpenGL

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Authors (3):

Sergey Kosarevsky

Alexey Medvedev

Viktor Latypov

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Establishing a Build Environment

2. Getting Started with Vulkan FREE CHAPTER

3. Working with Vulkan Objects

4. Adding User Interaction and Productivity Tools

5. Working with Geometry Data

6. Physically Based Rendering Using the glTF 2.0 Shading Model

7. Advanced PBR Extensions

8. Graphics Rendering Pipeline

9. glTF Animations

10. Image-Based Techniques

11. Advanced Rendering Techniques and Optimizations

12. Unlock Your Book’s Exclusive Benefits

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

14. Index

Getting the demo data

This book makes use of free 3D graphics datasets as much as possible. The comprehensive list of large 3D datasets is maintained by Morgan McGuire – Computer Graphics Archive, July 2017 (https://casual-effects.com/data). We will use some large 3D models from his archive for demonstration purposes in this book. Let us download one of them.

How to do it…

The bundled source code contains a Python script, deploy_deps.py, which will download all the required 3D models automatically. To download the entire Bistro dataset manually, which is not recommended, follow these simple steps:

Open the https://casual-effects.com/data/ page in a browser and find the Amazon Lumberyard Bistro dataset.
Click on the Download link and allow the browser to download all the data files. Below is a screenshot of Morgan McGuire’s site with the download link.

Figure 1.6: Amazon Lumberyard Bistro as pictured on casualeffects.com as...

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Authors (3)

Sergey Kosarevsky

Sergey Kosarevsky

Sergey Kosarevsky is a former rendering lead at Ubisoft RedLynx. He currently leads Vulkan development at Meta. He worked in the AR/VR and mobile industries at DAQRI, TWNKLS, Blippar, Layer, Yandex, and SPB Software, where he designed and implemented custom real-time rendering technology. He has more than 20 years of software development experience and more than 14 years of mobile and embedded 3D graphics experience. In his Ph.D. thesis, Sergey employed computer vision to solve mechanical engineering problems. He has co-authored several books on mobile software development in C++.

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Alexey Medvedev

Alexey Medvedev

Alexey Medvedev is the AR Tech Lead at Meta, with over 20 years of experience in software development, primarily in game development. He has worked as an engine, graphics, and rendering engineer at renowned companies like Crytek, Blizzard, and Hangar 13, contributing to the release of several AAA games. At the time of writing this book, Alexey also serves as the Khronos Chair of the 3D Formats Working Group, which develops the glTF standards..

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Viktor Latypov

Viktor Latypov

Viktor Latypov is a software engineer and mathematician with experience in compiler development, device drivers, robotics, and high-performance computing and with a personal interest in 3D graphics and mobile technology. Surrounded by computers for more than 20 years, he enjoys every bit of developing and designing software for anything with a CPU inside. Viktor holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Saint-Petersburg State University.

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