Welcome to dhpoware.

This site is dedicated to real-time 2D/3D graphics and games programming using Vulkan, OpenGL and Direct3D. We maintain a repository of source code that you can use in your own projects. Occasionally we release demos showcasing particular graphics and games programming techniques.

Latest News.

30 May 2023.
The latest Khronos Blog article discusses the recently released VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch extension for Vulkan. The Ray Tracing Position Fetch extension enables your application to directly retrieve position and attribute information to avoid duplication of geometry data storage. Read more here.

30 April 2023.
LunarG has released the results of their February 2023 Vulkan SDK and Ecosystem survey. Windows, Linux, Android, and MoltenVK are still the top 4 target platforms. glslangValidator (glsl->SPIR-V) or shaderc (glsls->SPIR-V) remains the most used front end from which to generate SPIR-V. Read the full report here.

29 March 2023.
The website will be undergoing some routine maintenance in the next couple of weeks. Any site disruptions will be kept to a minimum.

27 February 2023.
AMD has released a new version of their Open Source Driver for Vulkan on Linux. Release v-2023.Q1.2 updates the Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.3.240 and adds support for VK_EXT_physical_device_drm. Read more here.

2 January 2023.
Happy New Year!

Don't forget to download the latest Vulkan 1.3.236.0 SDK released last month. Download it here.

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