Sample application

Provided with this guide is two basic implementations of Direct3D 11, Direct3D 12 and Vulkan. One very basic implementation more aimed toward providing a basic template for explanation purposes, and one more complicated with a more involved scene and more complexity code-wise.

Prerequisites

For running the samples, the following is required:

Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit operating system
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
The latest version of the Windows 10 SDK
The LunarG Vulkan SDK (signup not required; installer located at the bottom of the page)

Precompiled versions of the shaders are provided, but for compiling the shaders, the following is additionally required:

Python 3.5.1
“watchdog” Python package (with Python installed, pip install watchdog in the command line)

Running the sample application

Open “Renderapp.sln” in Visual Studio and press build.

In order to build the shaders, run “shader_watchdog.py” located in the “build” folder.