All hail the mighty triangle!

Wanted to try dynamic rendering, and all the nice extensions that have come out since the last time I wrote a #Vulkan  renderer from scratch (2020).
That was also my very first renderer, and I had a very thin grasp on graphics, so it’ll be nice to compare how it feels now.

I’m running it over #MoltenVK atm and the plan is to add a #Metal  backend with metal-cpp.
Good to have #Slang now so I can share shader code without a macro horror show.

@niko OFC #Apple just wants spechal treatment for no good reason.

I mean, #MoltenVK can be more performant that raw #Metal and that's just a JIT dynarec for #Vulkan...

#MoltenVK 1.2.3 Released For Continuing To Enhance @VulkanAPI Atop #Apple #iOS / #macOS
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MoltenVK-1.2.3-Released

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/phoronix/status/1638846787489349633

#MoltenVK v1.2.2 Released For Improving @VulkanAPI Support On #Apple #macOS / #iOS
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MoltenVK-1.2.2-Released

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/phoronix/status/1617852410403389440

#MoltenVK Updated For @VulkanAPI 1.2 Support On #Apple macOS/iOS

https://www.phoronix.com/news/MoltenVK-1.2-Vulkan-Apple

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/phoronix/status/1582436654391824384

TIL even though #Vulkan is not officially supported on #macOS, the Vulcan Tutorial gives instructions how to set up #MoltenVK so you can follow along and develop for macOS anyway.

https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Development_environment#page_MacOS

horray, #Xenko now also on #macOS thanks to #dotnet and #MoltenVK

#gamedev #indiedev