Loading Renderdoc from Java

By Ulrik Günther in JVM on

Renderdoc [https://renderdoc.org] is a tremendously useful graphics debugger by Baldur Karlsson [https://twitter.com/baldurk] that works by intercepting your Vulkan/Direct3D/OpenGL API calls either by injecting its little helper library into your running application or by loading the helper library before the actual API library. The…

Vulkan & The SteamVR compositor

By Ulrik Günther in Vulkan on

Already in December, Valve has updated OpenVR to include support for Vulkan [https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/tree/v1.0.5]. When using Vulkan instead of OpenGL with OpenVR/SteamVR, there are two additional steps to take: 1. To work at all, you need to create your Vulkan instance and…

Vulkan Resource Collection

By Ulrik Günther in Programming on

Recently, I've been digging a bit into the new high performance graphics API Vulkan [http://khronos.org/vulkan], but found that comprehensive guides are still a little rare. Yet, quite a few people have invested incredible effort into creating tutorials, presentations, and sample code, covering various aspects and…

OpenGL: Lessons learned

By Ulrik Günther in OpenGL on

Here's a short summary of things I have learned in the last months of OpenGL programming - sometimes the hard way (read: while destroying awful amounts of Club Mate and coffee). Some of these are rather subtle pitfalls and do not get mentioned in tutorials or books too…