Today the Vulkan Working Group has released two important updates to the API and ecosystem: an entirely new Descriptor system and the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone. Initial support for these features is expected in the next Vulkan SDK release planned for Q1 2026.
These new features and more will be discussed at the forthcoming Vulkanised 2026 conference, taking place in San Diego on February 9-11.
#Pfingstsonntag vor 242 Jahren: Im Süden Islands 🇮🇸 beginnt die vulkanische Spalte Laki, unvorstellbare Mengen Lava und Asche auszustoßen. Mit weitreichenden Folgen für die Insel und die gesamte nördliche Hemisphäre:
https://astrogeo.de/vulkanjahr-1783-als-die-laki-feuer-auf-island-die-welt-veraenderten/ 🎧🌋
OK, please be kind...but I've finally decided to take a stab at old-webbing: https://montyontherun.neocities.org/
In particular, I intend to go over each of the Mesa3D demos (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos) and read it, explore it and explore what I needed to learn.
If there is anything to be improved, I will try to submit a merge request as well.
I was already cooking this in the background, but discovering https://512kb.club/ earlier today gave me the final impetus
Por desgracia hay pocos ejemplos dignos de juegos nativos hechos de tú a tú con respecto a la versión de #Windows. La mayoría de las veces es culpa de #Unity y #Unreal; o alguno de sus completos o falta de ellos.
Un ejemplo que es la puta polla es #StreetsofRage4 que portó el amigo Ethan Lee. Es un desarrollador que ama el medio y conoce perfectamente #GNU con #Linux.
Actualizó #SDL para poder usar Wayland y permite usar #Vulkan. El juego salió en #OpenGL.
Mis dieces.
Do any GPGPU people happen to know why compute shaders like this freeze my desktop until they complete (Vulkan + Mesa + AMD)? The call to memoryBarrierBuffer is load bearing, without it the freeze doesn't occur
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way to structure operations like this?
My "How to Vulkan in 2026" @vulkan #Vulkan guide is now publicly available at https://www.howtovulkan.com/
I still consider it a preview, though I'm mostly happy with it and only plan on changing minor things and incorporating some feedback.
After four long months (and a break), I finally finished rewriting my renderer for my game engine using Vulkan!!!
I tried to make the rewrite effort only focus on features the old wgpu renderer had, but to stay motiviated I HAD to add some cool features. The most notable one being Clustered Forward Rendering and bindless rendering.
Bindless is awesome, I will never do it any other way, its so simple to write things, it made my render graph api simpler- just *chefs kiss*
The first screenshot is showing shadows from directional lights (PCSS), point lights (PCF), and spot lights (PCF). The second screenshot is showing the sprite renderer with an egui (immediate mode ui) debug menu!
Next I want to add more cool rendering things like MSAA, maybe SMAA as well, then bend's screen space shadows, the list is never ending 
but I'm having a lot of fun!
New update 4.10 for the @vulkan #Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer released.
Changes include: Updated to Qt6, support for recent extensions, updated Vulkan profiles library, new way of packaging Linux AppImages and several Android fixes
Download at: https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download
I'm back after playing way too much zomboid lately.
So here's what I've been working on : FPS controls, better collisions (I'm using the correct controller for the character now), added imgui and I started working on an in game editor to update and save the scene.
I procrastinated this for almost a month but I finally added a skybox to the game.
Which means I now know how to use cubemaps in Vulkan, which should pave the way for point shadows and IBL.
I spent some time working on the character controller.
It's only basic behavior for now.
Gamepad support, moving with some slight inertia, jumping (variable height, projectile motion formula, double jump (that I need to update), camera behavior etc
After some refactoring, I can now load multiple gltf files into my engine.
I feel I reached a point where I can finally start working on game prototypes with my own monstruositechy.
In the video, everything I worked on recently: 2 gltf scene, shadows, 3D skinned mesh.
Yesterday I managed to display 1 animation, but It could only display the gltf scene and nothing more.
After some refactoring, I can now clone the fox object from the gltf scene!
Having a #vulkan driver really helps bring new features to old hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEo7066YoVo
All hail DXVk and MoltenVk
Ok so, I put the ECS stuff on standby and I'm back on more concrete things.
And today I managed to implement 3D animations in my engine.
So ... where to start.
- I finished directional shadowmaps. I can now have up to 32 lights that cast shadows.
- Fixed issues with textures format and transparency
- Added agx tonemapping
- Selection system completed
- Control groups + selection indicator
I know I said I wanted to move on from the shadow maps, but looks like I lied.
I refactored a lot of code so I can handle more than one and I made a system to manage custom render pass with render targets.
I still have some work left in the shader part because I still have like 1 uniform for each potential shadow_map. I'll have to use either a uniform array, or checking the vulkan bindless descriptor extension.
Finally finished a first implementation of shadowmapping.
It's ugly, buggy and I bruteforced it into the engine with 0 care in the world, but it's a start.
I'll take a small break from shadows though, I want to focus a bit more on gameplay for the next days.
We will also be showing Overte's new #vulkan renderer, which is still in development. It was made possible thanks to #NLnet foundation grant. #fosdem #opensource #vr #foss #fosdem2025
Naive pathtracing needs a high number of samples per pixels to get an acceptable result, and shooting too many rays drastically affects FPS. But then look at the result once it starts importance sampling the light! 💡
After several weekends spent debugging validation layer errors and my iterative pathtracing algorithm, I can finally enjoy a bit of home-made real-time interactive raytracing.
Supervulkan in Italien schwillt an, dampft kräftig und spuckt mehr Gas aus.
#introduction #introductions @SheriffStone and I are building a community over at graphics.social. It's for everyone interested in the science of computer graphics across all industries like: #vfx #gamedev #vr #ar #XR #animation #art #render #rendering #academics #cg #movies #tv #streaming #design #web3
Various tech that I hope gets discussed: #cad #pbr #sdf #nerfs #webgl #metal #vulkan #opengl #directx #renderman #unrealengine #unity3d as well as languages likes #c #cpp #csharp #lua #python
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