Vulkan Basics 03: A Stack of Plates · Swap Chain & Image Views

Episode 3 of Vulkan Basics: Swap Chain & Image Views. We write a Vulkan program in C++ line by line, following vulkan-tutorial.com. Every step builds and runs, and every window and terminal you see is a real recording (Apple M4 · MoltenVK; the code also runs on Windows and Linux). Steps in this episode: ep03.1 Swap chain extension; ep03.2 Query swap chain support; ep03.3 Three choices; ep03.4 Create the swap chain; ep03.5 Image views. Code for every step: https://github.com/zjw1918/vulkan-bas... (this episode ends at `git checkout ep03`) Chapters 0:00 Cold open 0:25 This episode's map 0:39 Why a stack of plates? 1:31 Swap chain extension (ep03.1) 2:10 Query swap chain support (ep03.2) 2:57 Three choices (ep03.3) 4:49 Create the swap chain (ep03.4) 6:27 Image views (ep03.5) 7:51 Recap Next: Building the Line: Shaders & the Graphics Pipeline Based on vulkan-tutorial.com (code listings CC0). #Vulkan #GraphicsProgramming #cpp