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Vulkan Cookbook

By : Lapinski
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Vulkan Cookbook

By: Lapinski

Overview of this book

Vulkan is the next generation graphics API released by the Khronos group. It is expected to be the successor to OpenGL and OpenGL ES, which it shares some similarities with such as its cross-platform capabilities, programmed pipeline stages, or nomenclature. Vulkan is a low-level API that gives developers much more control over the hardware, but also adds new responsibilities such as explicit memory and resources management. With it, though, Vulkan is expected to be much faster. This book is your guide to understanding Vulkan through a series of recipes. We start off by teaching you how to create instances in Vulkan and choose the device on which operations will be performed. You will then explore more complex topics such as command buffers, resources and memory management, pipelines, GLSL shaders, render passes, and more. Gradually, the book moves on to teach you advanced rendering techniques, how to draw 3D scenes, and how to improve the performance of your applications. By the end of the book, you will be familiar with the latest advanced techniques implemented with the Vulkan API, which can be used on a wide range of platforms.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Resetting a command pool

When we don't want to reset command buffers individually, or if we created a pool without a VK_COMMAND_POOL_CREATE_RESET_COMMAND_BUFFER_BIT flag, we can reset all command buffers allocated from a given pool at once.

How to do it...

  1. Take the handle of a logical device and store it in a variable of type VkDevice named logical_device.
  2. Take the handle of a created command pool. Use it to initialize a variable of type VkCommandPool named command_pool.
  3. Create a variable of type VkCommandPoolResetFlags named release_resources and initialize it with a value of VK_COMMAND_POOL_RESET_RELEASE_RESOURCES_BIT, if memory reserved by all command buffers allocated from the command pool should be released and returned to the pool, or with a 0 value otherwise...