While having a Vulkan renderer in Yamagi Quake II sounded like a good
idea, especially for cheap hardware with broken OpenGL drivers, the last
weeks showed that the code is not ready for primetime. Some examples
for critical problems:
* Render glitches when using non-standard assets. Everything with more
polygons and texture resultion than baseq2 seems to be broken.
* The startup and shutdown code is a mess. While I fixes the most
critical bug, there're a lot of cases left. Startup and shutdown
mostly works by luck.
* At least one memory leak in the model code.
And neither @DanielGibson nor myself have deeper knowledge about Vulkan.
We don't have the time and the motivation to learn it. While some
community members did excellent work on ref_vk (especially @0lvin and
@rg3), the community maintenance promised in the initial pull request
never really materialized. Therefor we risk ending up with a renderer
that we can't and won't maintain by ourself.
Vulkan is not gone. The code will be recommitted in a separate
repository at: https://github.com/yquake2/ref_vk
We're willing to give community members commit access to that
repository. Send a substantial pull request and ask for it.
Denis Pauk
Yamagi