Graphics Project

This is a hobby project in which I am exploring everything related to creating, interactive, graphical (3D) programs to run on modern linux desktop systems.

This involves:

• Connecting to the host Wayland compositor
• Request creation of a window
• Processing & responding to system events
• Processing & responding to user inputs
• Rendering & presenting frames to the screen

To accomplish all this (without relying on external libraries), I needed to:

• Write my own tool to generate code based from a given list of wayland protocol specifications (found here).
• Write my own framework for communicating with the wayland compositor through the wayland wire protocol (found here).
• Write a tool for parsing xkb_v1 keyboard keymap formats (found here).
• Use Vulkan to create and write to the on-GPU buffers to render to the screen.

Goals

Basic Window
Vulkan-Based Rendering
Input Event Handling
Hello Triangle
Texture/Image Rendering
Text/Font Rendering
Rendering 3D Objects & Scenes
Lighting Simulation

Next Steps

• [-] System event queue
• [-] Hello Triangle
  (?) Switch from VkImage -> Vulkan Surface
  Vulkan Synchronization
  Vulkan Swapchain Creation Pipeline
  Image loading/rendering

Potential Future Goals

Cross Platform Support (Mac/Windows)
Game (/Engine) Based on This Project

Milestones Hit:

• 01:00am - 04/12/2024: First Vulkan Rendered Window

• 01:00am - 08/12/2024: Fixed Coloring For a Proper Background Clearing