Jacki's Developer Blog

Hey everyone, you have probably noticed that I didn’t provide the monthly updates about the GNUnet Messenger API since September . The reason for this is that my first goals completed and while I continued working on it, I contributed to other projects as well. So my time was limited. For example I did a lot of refactoring source code in the VkCV Vulkan framework and recently pushed a new release with a lot of features for developing graphics and rendering applications. There’s now also a blog to learn developing first graphics applications with this framework to utilize Vulkan (a cross compatible API for GPU acceleration). I’m currently one of the biggest contributors to this framework. So if anything might not work, feel free to contact me. Testing is very welcome and it’s fully open-source. That means contributions are welcome as well. Next thing I’m always trying to improve if I find the time is Manuskript . It’s a great tool for writers but it needs some work cleaning up its...

This year I collaborated with many other students at the university on a computer graphics framework using the Vulkan API. We designed it to function rather modular and while it abstracts several parts of the Vulkan API and memory management to ease development, it still allows you to utilize Vulkan’s openness and the use of various extensions. We implemented several example projects with the framework to show how it can be utilized. There are also modules extending the capabilities from the framework to load GLTF assets, manage a scene graph, handling cameras, rendering GUI with ImGui and even image upscaling in realtime using FSR from the GPUOpen initiative. It’s also possible to use the framework for non-rendering projects like simulation utilizing Vulkan compute shaders and its compute pipelines. You can find a video showcasing the different example projects containing modern features like mesh shaders and ray tracing on YouTube . You can also find a more detailed explanati...