DirectXTK VS Open-Source Vulkan C++ API

LoadScreenAllow= LoadScreenBlock=All Note: In cases where only loadscreens with conditions are allowed, it is possible that none will show even if no others are available. LoadScreenFilter=false LoadScreenAllow= LoadScreenBlock=All Remove all lens flare from weather records. This is done in-memory and is not persistent. DisableWeatherLensFlare=false Disable actor fade when camera intersects the body. DisableActorFade=false Disable player fade when camera intersects the body. DisablePlayerFade=false [OSD] Enable the on-screen display. Enable=false InitiallyOn=true Comma separated list of displayed stats. fps - Framerate bare_fps - Just the framerate, no formatting frametime - Frametime bare_frametime - Just the frametime, no formatting counter - Frame counter vram - Video ram usage (used / budget) * all - Everything * Note that this line does not show total amount of memory available but rather the OS allocated budget which can vary based on how much is consumed by other applications. If usage exceeds the budget, you'll likely experience stuttering. Requires DXGI 1.4. Stats related to specific drivers are configured in their respective sections. Show=fps,vram How often the OSD updates (in seconds). UpdateInterval=0.3 Keys used used to toggle the OSD. ComboKey uses built-in constants, ToggleKey is a DX scan code (https://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Input\_Script) ComboKey: 1 - Left Shift 2 - Right Shift 3 - Left Control 4 - Right Control 5 - Left Alt 6 - Right Alt 7 - Left Win 8 - Right Win ComboKey=1 and ToggleKey=0xD2 is Left Shift + Insert ComboKey=1 ToggleKey=0xD2 Align the OSD. 1 - Top Left 2 - Top Right 3 - Bottom Left 4 - Bottom Right Align=1 OSD position offset (X Y). Offset=4 4 Font scale (X Y) Omit Y for uniform scaling Scale=1.0 0.9 Adjust font scale based on amount of lines drawn. AutoScale=true Scale font size based on window size. Size remains constant when resolution to window size ratio != 1, for example when playing at non-native resolutions. ScaleToWindow=true Set a custom font. You can generate bitmaps from fonts installed on your system with MakeSpriteFont. https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTK/wiki/MakeSpriteFont Run the tool with /NoPremultiply and place files in Data\SKSE\Plugins\SDTFonts FontFile= Font and outline color (RGBA). Color=255 255 255 255 OutlineColor=0 0 0 255 Outline offset. OutlineOffset=1 "

XNA died when the people behind it left, thus the C++ side won once again, and DirectXTK was born as replacement.

https://walbourn.github.io/directxtk/

Years later they kind of sponsored Monogame, when they were recovering from XBox One mess,

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2016/03/14/letter-chris-charla-i...

By the way, I think one of these episodes talks about the emulation, but I am not certain if it was on this podcast I heard about it.

https://theretrohour.com/?s=xbox

So for the past 8 hours, I've been trying to mod the music files for Bloons Monkey City. I converted some songs I wanted to use in BMC using audacity to wav and made sure to rename the files to the songs I wanted to replace. I used XWBtool to repackage the wav files into an XWB file, the file format BMC uses to store its music in. I used Foobar2000 to view the XMB file, and for whatever reason all the song names get changed to whatever the XWB file name is after repackaging them using XWBtool (I.e. The XWB's file name is whatever the first wav file XWBtool repackages. In my case, "WaveBank#1 (MCity_MvM)" is the first wav file that gets repackaged, so for whatever reason every other file also gets its names changed to "WaveBank#1 (MCity_MvM)," which is causing me a problem as BMC won't be able to read the other music files.).

DirectXTK 12 (includes SimpleMath and other goodies)

DirectXtutorial doesn't seem to have the greatest C++ code either. I would definitely use ComPtr.

DirectXTK (basically XNA ported to C++, after it was dropped)

Thank you for your reply, I make spritefont from this link https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTK/wiki/SpriteFont but still cannot show the right font Maybe have to check parameter of old font

Because you get stuff like DirectXTK and PIX from the company that does the API, while on Khronos stuff you need to go hunting for comunity or GPU vendor specific tooling.

then check up this https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTK/wiki/Getting-Started

It might be useful to maybe look at the Vulkan.hpp examples since you can do the same in about 200 lines of code. https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp/blob/main/samples/15_DrawCube/15_DrawCube.cpp

Wow that library looks amazing, I'll definitely be using it. Bonus that it's official from the Khronos Group. https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp

Even auto-generated c++ wrappers like vulkan-hpp require lots of manual maintenance.

Ultimately I went with vulkan.hpp RAII bindings, even though that way also has some learning curve and I couldn't find any documentation other than the RAII programming guide. It's great for getting started, but could use a complementary auto-generated API doc. There are also decent programming samples, which really suck for getting started, but otherwise do a good job of presenting concepts they focus on. Putting the available resources together I was able to get a project going in two weekends.

This is exactly how the official Vulkan C++ API, Vulkan-Hpp does it. For the precise example mentioned in the blog post:

Or the vulkan.hpp RAII samples would be a good place?

For a real-life example: consider the vk::raii namespace of Vulkan-Hpp, where the developers have posted examples. The vk::raii::su namespace has a bunch of free functions that one might think are associated with a Vulkan instance/object (in fact, the Vulkan Tutorial does implement them as member functions), but they are much nicer when used as pure functions. It keeps the class/struct definition itself nice and clean.

final c++17 draft (N4659) first post-publication draft after c++20 (N4868) vulkan-structs.hpp (containing the vk::ImageCreateInfo definition) VkImageCreateInfo struct