I have finished the first four chapters of the book, where the author covers the details of implementing a LVK graphics framework by Vulkan API. The code of this book shows a professional coding style for a graphics programmer, and can absolutely help the reader to improve the graphics programming skill level from university level to industry level. It is worth noting that the reader is supposed to have some basic knowledge and experiences of Vulkan API, so that one can understand the code and concepts better. Meanwhile, the author is willing to help readers on the discord server if anyone has some problems, which is awesome. And I will update this review once I have finished further chapters in the book. Read more

I have read the book and it really helped my graphics skills, not only Vulkan! Read more

Beginners might find some parts challenging without prior 3D graphics knowledge. Throughout the book and step-by-step, the authors develop their own abstraction layer over the Vulkan API, while explaining the underlying Vulkan code in great detail. The code is very clean and examples are well-commented. As already mentioned here, it is not a typical cookbook - you will need to follow recipes in order, since later recipes build on the earlier ones. Read more

tl,dr: I can only give it 2 stars because it is more about the author's tools and framework than about the underlying Vulkan API. Once the dependencies are cobbled together (most of them with the help of a Python script and CMake) the framework compiles and the examples run. The book accompanies them by explaining some of the crucial code parts. Frankly, I don't see much sense in yet another Vulkan book where the authors discuss their framework instead of actually explaing the API. Also, the "Cookbook"-format can be a collection of loose ends and one easily looses the overview. I fear, for now, if we want to learn the Vulkan API itself, we are stuck with the Khronos Vulkan examples on Github. Read more

Bom Read more

A very good intermediate-level graphics book (it is applicable not only to Vulkan)! Read more