https://github.com/liam-malone/gfx-project

Learning Graphics Programming With Vulkan and From-Scratch Wayland Gfx
https://github.com/liam-malone/gfx-project

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Learning Graphics Programming With Vulkan and From-Scratch Wayland Gfx

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/liam-malone/gfx-project
• Owner: Liam-Malone
• Created: 2024-10-19T16:03:50.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-29T02:11:09.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-08T04:28:41.918Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: graphics, graphics-programming, handmade, vulkan, wayland, wayland-client, zig
• Language: Zig
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• Size: 4.86 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Graphics Project

This is a hobby project in which I am exploring everything related to creating, interactive, graphical (3D) programs to run on modern linux desktop systems.

This involves:

- Connecting to the host Wayland compositor

- Request creation of a window

- Processing & responding to system events

- Processing & responding to user inputs

- Rendering & presenting frames to the screen

To accomplish all this (without relying on external libraries), I needed to:

- Write my own tool to generate code based from a given list of wayland protocol specifications ([found here](./src/wl-bindgen.zig)).

- Write my own framework for communicating with the wayland compositor through the wayland wire protocol ([found here](./src/wl-msg.zig)).

- Write a tool for parsing xkb_v1 keyboard keymap formats ([found here](./src/xkb.zig)).

- Use Vulkan to create and write to the on-GPU buffers to render to the screen.

## Goals

- [x] Basic Window

- [x] Vulkan-Based Rendering

- [x] Input Event Handling

- [ ] Hello Triangle

- [ ] Texture/Image Rendering

- [ ] Text/Font Rendering

- [ ] Rendering 3D Objects & Scenes

- [ ] Lighting Simulation

#### Next Steps

- [-] System event queue

- [-] Hello Triangle

- [ ] (?) Switch from VkImage -> Vulkan Surface

- [ ] Vulkan Synchronization

- [ ] Vulkan Swapchain Creation Pipeline

- [ ] Image loading/rendering

### Potential Future Goals

- [ ] Cross Platform Support (Mac/Windows)

- [ ] Game (/Engine) Based on This Project

### Milestones Hit:

- 01:00am - 04/12/2024: First Vulkan Rendered Window

![First screenshot of the GPU-rendered blank window](./assets/screenshots/first_vk-window.jpeg)

- 01:00am - 08/12/2024: Fixed Coloring For a Proper Background Clearing

![GIF of screen-clearing working as intended](./assets/videos/clear-demo.gif)