C# Silk.NET Vulkan Game Engine Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFfxnux9mo

• Based on the excellent Youtube tutorial by Brendan Galea - Vulkan Game Engine Tutorial (C++)

  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8327DO66nu9qYVKLDmdLW_84-yE4auCR

• Credit also to C# Silk.NET version of the OG Vulkan C++ Tutorial by Daniel Keenan

  • https://github.com/dfkeenan/SilkVulkanTutorial
  • https://vulkan-tutorial.com/

• And Mellinoe for the ImGui Vulkan example in the main Silk.NET repo

  • https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET/tree/main/src/Lab/Experiments/ImGuiVulkan

• And the entire Silk.NET team and discord, y'all are awesome

• Here are some other resources that helped me tremendously

  • Sascha Willems and his giant collection of examples (C++)
    • https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan
  • Cem Yuksel's Interactive Computer Graphics course
    • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZS3R5DjmCQsqupu43oS9CFN
  • Johannes Unterguggenberger's Lecture Series
    • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmIqTlJ6KsE1Jx5HV4sd2jOe3V1KMHHgn
  • The Cherno
    • https://www.youtube.com/@TheCherno

Mouse Controls (starting in Chapter 15ish)

• Scroll to zoom
• Middle click to pan
• Middle + Right click to rotate (kinda like Catia)

TO DO:

• Docs:

  • Add some notes for each chapter describing where I deviated from the C++ (and maybe why)
  • Maybe add some some youtube tutorials for the C# stuff?

• Build:

  • Fix up the shader compiler build step to only compile if glsl files have changed
  • Get the shader compiler path to work with an env variable (I'm dense)

• Features:

  • Add some new tutorial chapters (textures?, what else?)
  • Points and lines rendering
  • Perspective camera currently doesn't work

Build requirements !!! VERY IMPORTANT !!!

- Sandbox03MeshShaders is using the Experimental build of Silk.NET 2.17 (as of 2023-03-30) - get it here: https://dev.azure.com/UltzOS/Silk.NET/_artifacts/feed/Experimental - click "Connet to Feed", "Visual Studio", and copy the Source into a new nuget package source

• Silk.NET 2.17 is released, so make sure you're on that version at least.

• The projects require the Vulkan SDK to build/run. The SDK provides the Vulkan validation layers as well as the command line tools to compile the shaders.

• You will have to update your csproj files to point the folder where glslc.exe is found (this is the glsl compiler)

	<PropertyGroup>
		<VulkanBinPath>C:\VulkanSDK\1.3.239.0\Bin</VulkanBinPath>
	</PropertyGroup>

** I couldn't get it to work with an environment variable, and I'm sure there's a better way to handle this globally

Each chapter was re-coded in C# (.NET 7)

• Bonus projects:
  • Sandbox01Multisampling
  • Sandbox02ImGui
  • Sandbox03MeshShaders
  • Sandbox04ComputeShaders (coming soon)