Vulkan - new graphics API

[Itms]

Oh, it's entirely my fault. I'll restore those. Thanks for the ping

[Itms]

Done, with some delay. Sorry for the inconvenience!

[real_tabasco_sauce]

On 27/11/2023 at 1:06 PM, Itms said:

Done, with some delay. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Great, the build works fine. Thank you!

[Dunedan]

Are there now instructions how to build the SPIR-V shaders locally somewhere? If not, it'd be great if those could be added.

[vladislavbelov]

5 hours ago, Dunedan said:

Are there now instructions how to build the SPIR-V shaders locally somewhere? If not, it'd be great if those could be added.

Yep: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Vulkan#Buildingshaders

[Dunedan]

Thanks a lot. With OpenGL the GLSL shaders get generated on-the-fly and cached on disk, if they aren't present, aren't they? Would that be possible for Vulkan as well?

[vladislavbelov]

33 minutes ago, Dunedan said:

With OpenGL the GLSL shaders get generated on-the-fly and cached on disk, if they aren't present, aren't they?

We don't do so. Shaders are compiled each time they're loaded (or used in a pipeline state). Some (but not all) drivers might cache results on a disk.

35 minutes ago, Dunedan said:

Would that be possible for Vulkan as well?

I have plans for that. We need a library which can be used on all platforms (shaderc is a possible candidate). Though we can't rely on it and we still need to build SPIR-V for releases. Because there might be platforms without such libraries in regular repos.

[Sturm]

https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-drives-industry-support-for-expanded-3d-features-with-vulkan-roadmap-2024