Drawing Your First Triangle with Vulkan: A Step-by-Step Guide

Vulkan’s explicit nature gives you full control, but requires careful setup. Here’s what you need to do to render your first triangle:

• Create a VkInstance

• Select a supported graphics card (VkPhysicalDevice)

• Create a VkDevice and VkQueue for drawing and presentation

• Create a window, window surface and swap chain

• Wrap the swap chain images into VkImageView

• Create a render pass that specifies the render targets and usage

• Create framebuffers for the render pass

• Set up the graphics pipeline

• Allocate and record a command buffer with the draw commands for every possible swap chain image

• Draw frames by acquiring images, submitting the right draw command buffer and returning the images back to the swap chain