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Introduction

About This blog will teach you about the basic usage of the VkCV framework . The VkCV is a framework designed and built by students from the University Koblenz for computer graphics. Technically the framework is built with Vulkan and allows to utilize the Vulkan API on top of the framework in case you need certain features. However, the tutorials on this blog focus on the core API of the framework itself by going through different examples of increasing complexity. So you will learn how to develop with that instead. The tutorials do not require any prior knowledge of Direct3D , OpenGL , Metal or Vulkan . But the basics of 3D computer graphics won't be covered in detail. So it will help to get this knowledge from other sources. Also in some cases the VkCV framework utilizes certain concepts of the Vulkan API to reduce the cost of abstraction. In those cases the tutorials will explain those concepts out of necessity. Just don't expect a full detailed guide about Vulkan....
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Use VSCodium

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Configuration If you have installed VSCodium the first time, there are some things to know. It's an IDE for all different kinds of programming languages and it makes use of extensions to support all of that. So one thing you can do is install some useful extensions to develop with the framework. The list of of extensions can be installed using a script under scripts/setup-codium.sh in the repository. Just navigate into the directory of the framework before. cd vkcv-framework ./scripts/setup-codium.sh On Windows you can also run the following command via PowerShell opened in the directory of the framework to install the extensions from the list in the text file under resources/extensions.txt : Get-Content resources\extensions.txt | ForEach-Object {codium --install-extension $_} These extensions include support for the CMake build process, C++ code completion, GitLab integration and proper debugging tools. So you will have everything you need without searching and goin...
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Application development

Environment The main purpose of the VkCV framework is to ease application development. But how would you start once your IDE is all setup? First of all, here is the general directory structure of the framework and what the specific folders contain: config/ - CMake configuration and custom functions for the build process doc/ - All sorts of documentation include/ - The headers of the VkCV framework API lib/ - The dependencies of the framework as submodules modules/ - All current modules provided by the framework itself projects - The example application using the framework and its modules resources/ - The list with the recommended extensions for example scripts/ - Useful shell/bash scripts to interact with the command line src/ - The source code of the framework Generation As you might have noticed the subdirectory called "projects" contains all example applications and it is easiest to create a new application in there integrated...
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