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Author SHA1 Message Date
Denis Pauk
42465a6b03 Add Vulkan render 2023-09-17 14:17:14 +03:00
Yamagi
8f6a085434 Remove ref_vk, the Vulkan renderer ported from vkQuake2.
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.
2021-05-28 09:33:46 +02:00
Denis Pauk
7eb075198e Fix vk_validation warnings 2020-12-12 14:45:04 +01:00
Denis Pauk
2e5c5974d6 gamma calculation in shaders 2020-12-12 14:45:04 +01:00
Denis Pauk
bfab2d3042 Rebuild shaders with glslang-tools 7.12.3352-10 2020-12-12 14:45:04 +01:00