i think your goal should be to understand how c# works before jumping head first into vulkan with c#
i think your goal should be to understand how c# works before jumping head first into vulkan with c#
أI learned C# but I weak in English
Lwhat language do you speak? someone here might be able to help
Fwell if you never used NuGet before or don't know how to use other libraries i can only assume that you don't know much
Fwhich is why i suggested to get more familiar with the language
أI don't think that but I Arabic
أI knew how to use NuGet
Lto get the vulkan API you do
VK.GetAPI(), then the vulkan functions are on the VK objectأI added silk, net NuGet to my project but what is name of Vulkan liberary
Lthe object is named
VKأwhen I add NuGet typing in frist
using libraryName;
are the name of the library is VK only?
using libraryName;
are the name of the library is VK only?
Lah the namespace should be Silk.NET.Vulkan
أOk, Thanks for the help!
Lnp
MWhats a good strat to render bitmap text?
MAs in setting up the vao and vbos
Lrender the chars to a texture atlas, then pick them out using texcoords
MI already have the atlas, so you recommend generating texture coordinates and geometry instead of say keeping a atlas index instanced vbo and bind it per text render?
Fjust draw instanced quads with tex coords
MProblem with that method is your need to switch the vbo when you need to render more than a single bit of text
MDefinitely want to do that just asking for opinions before implementing
Lare you rendering your game geometry as 2d quads or 3d
M2d
M240x160
Lthen why do you need to change vbo
M8x8 font
MBecause if you have two different lines of text you dont want to \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n down to where you need to be for example
Myou'd simply specify a new location and have a new dataset
Lwhat
Ljust do normal instanced quad rendering and use that to draw the text
MYes
Mthat allows you to draw a continuous line of text
MNow what about two separate lines of text?
Mcall glDrawElementsInstanced again sure
MBut it will emit the same thing
MReupload to the vbo or switch vbo (which contains the ids into the texture atlas)
Lwhat
Li'm able to draw my whole scene with many lines of text in one call
MHow does it work then? You just have one large buffer of all the text?
Fjust draw quads
Lno
Li just draw quads
Lmy drawing doesn't distinguish text and game objects
Lit's just
Lquads
Fquads with a texture and a specific tex coord
Lyup
Fwe dont do any lines of text shenanigans
Fwe quite literally just draw quads
Lcharacters are just quads
MSo you generate the positions of the quads and the texture coords?
