vulkan-guide VS vk-bootstrap

I totally agree, and so do the people working on it as well as some of the volunteers who write tutorials.

There's an ongoing effort to create beginner friendly introductory material which was discussed in the recent Vulkanised conference. And an effort to make a better documentation site that's easier to browse than the specification.

On the volunteer front, there's a Vulkan 1.3 -based introductory tutorial (work in progress) over at https://vkguide.dev/

I think there should be a Vulkan tutorial that doesn't start with the boring stuff of initialization and window creation. It's stuff that you write once and forget about, and nothing particularly interesting happens in it.

Looking at my hobby project, excluding the boring stuff (which is reusable), a "hello compute" example is around 100 LOC and a "hello triangle" around 120 LOC. GLSL shader sources included.

Maybe someday I'll get around to writing a "learn Vulkan the hard way" blog post with examples.

Also, use https://vkguide.dev/ rather than vulkan-tutorial.

Once you're beyond the "introductory" phase, resources become more specialized based on what you'd like to learn -- there are Vulkan tutorials like https://vkguide.dev/ which will teach you the API and also give a bit more insight in how modern GPU hardware is structured, there are books like the "GPU Zen" series that do deep-dives on specific techniques, and there are tons of recorded GDC and SIGGRAPH talks on interesting new techniques. :)

Personally, I'm a hands on learner who actually wants to use this stuff in my career, so I'd recommend these tutorials: https://learnopengl.com/ https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Overview https://vkguide.dev/

vkguide teaches some good practices regarding code/renderer structure, but I'm afraid it doesn't go as deep as you'd like. It's certainly deeper than most other tutorials, though.

https://vkguide.dev/ This is my favorite.

I recently asked about something similar. AFAIK in terms of convenience layers, only vk-bootstrap is still maintained, other than vulkan.hpp bindings. There's also vookoo but it's rarely updated.

A shameless plug: here's a link to my repo https://github.com/jammymalina/vkbasicapp that could get you started. It's a WIP and far from done. The code is relatively structured, I got the inspiration from vk-bootstrap and I am Graphics And So Can You blogpost.

Great answer. Wanted to add on vk-bootstrap, does a lot of the initialization boiler plate for you: https://github.com/charles-lunarg/vk-bootstrap

Try this project: https://github.com/charles-lunarg/vk-bootstrap

It looks like the issue was on how I was using a library to load vulkan https://github.com/charles-lunarg/vk-bootstrap/issues/83

vkguide is probably what you want, but in case you don't want to start your code with a guide, you can use vk-bootstrap to get started faster, it's what's used in vkguide.

I just discovered vk-bootstrap today, and it looks like it'll make initialization code much much easier.

For what you are asking, vk-bootstrap is a library that mostly handles the very first 300-400 lines of vulkan code. https://github.com/charles-lunarg/vk-bootstrap