Welcome to the Vulkan Sandbox! If you are looking to develop a Vulkan application together with a highly customizable user interface (Dear Imgui) and do not want to write thousands of lines of boilerplate code, this project might be for you. Or if you just want to marvel at how many lines of code it takes to draw a triangle you can just peruse the code.

This repository is designed to be cloned and ready for use on all Linux, Windows, and Mac. The project makes minimal assumptions about code structure and places all the necessary code into just four header and source files, so that it is easy to get started right away. No abstraction layers have been written for the creation of Vulkan objects, but it should definitely be possible to quickly refactor components.

If you want more in-depth details take a look at the Resources section below.

• Compiler toolchain that supports C++14
• CMake 3.16
• Vulkan SDK 1.2
• GLFW 3.3

Building is straightforward and should work out of the box. If that is not the case please file an issue with me and I will try to help you out. To build the project follow these steps:

git clone https://github.com/tstullich/vk-sandbox
cd vk-sandbox
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. && make

Once the build finishes make sure to compile the shaders into SPIR-V by using the compile.sh script found in the shaders subdirectory.

cd shaders
./compile.sh

Afer this you should be able to run the project in an IDE or directly from the build directory and you should be greeted with a window like the one below. Now you should be ready to write your application!

A lot of the work for this repository is based on the great vulkan-tutorial so if you want to learn more about Vulkan you should definitely check that out. Dear Imgui also has some documentation, although I find it to be scattered and good information is hard to find. But do read through it to get started on writing your own

If you find any issues with this code, please feel free to send a pull request or file an issue with a brief error report and I'll try to respond to your request as soon as possible.