hey @techpizza remember thundershock engine? 😛
hey @techpizza remember thundershock engine? 
Tyes, is it now a eruptionshock? 
Rnah it's dead
RI ended up porting my game to Unity after joining Trixel Creative to work on Restitched
Rbut then the other day I decided "hey let's make a vulkan game engine"
Rout of pure boredom and masochism
Rand now Sparky Engine is a thing that exists
Rexcept for the fact that shaders are infinitely more complicated to deal with in Vulkan
Atbf not particularly, its a lot more inline with HLSL SM5+
Ajust uniform buffers and binding index and whatnot
Ayou'll get used to it quickly
Ai don't even use vulkan (much) and i'm stuck with it cause i use shaderc
RNo I'm not worried about actually writing the shaders
RIt's compiling them
Aah, fair enough
Rbecause OpenGL has a built-in API for it that can be used at runtime and vulkan doesn't
Ayea shaderc bundled with your application will work a treat
Rhence my infinite amounts of pain
RRight now I'm trying to fumble through spirzza's API to figure out how to actually
Ruse it
Ai have an example if you want it
RYes! Please! End my suffering! D:
RI love you
R....shader compilation is now a thing Sparky can do
PWAIT DISCORD ON IOS CAN’T OPEN LINKS NOW?
P
Aholy shit you are right hahaha
Ai just tried it too
AAnd it just silently fails to open the link on my phone >.> (Android)
PAhhh I see it
Pit’s the double hashtag
AHuh
Rhttps://vulkan-tutorial.com/en/Drawing_a_triangle/Graphics_pipeline_basics/Fixed_functions oh my god
A tutorial that teaches you everything it takes to render 3D graphics with the Vulkan API. It covers everything from Windows/Linux setup to rendering and debugging.
Rthis page is so long
Tthat is literally just like 5 printable pages
Rsuch a short attention span
Rhow did you survive GL if this is long
RIt's not a short attention span, it's that I'm blind
Rand I'm reading this with TTS
RI thinky my second point stands
Rhow did you survive GL
AI thinky you should stop being so judgemental.
LGL has much much less setup
Ryou are right, the first one was my bad
Rbut you do still need to read more than 5 pages by far to do basically anything.
REhhhhhhhh
Rwith OpenGL I followed The Cherno's game engine series on YouTube
Rso I ddn't have to read anything
R:)