Learn the Vulkan API with C++ (Udemy.com)

Instead if giving a bad rating for this course (which I like very much actually), I want to give a quick hint for all who watch this course in the future: If you are constantly receive warnings or errors from the vulkan validation layers about queues that are still in use of semaphores or fences that are signalling in wrong way, try to add the following line: (Pseudo code) vkQueueWaitIdle(graphicsQueue); between the calls "vkWaitForFences" and "vkResetFences". It seems that in the last few years, the Vulkan drivers got more strict in their validation of synchronization. What might look technically correct here because there are no errors, might be wrong now. Beside of that, this is a fantastic course!

It’s “easy to watch on mobile” for a course about code. This may not be the optimal way to view screen capture of computer code, but that isn’t the fault of the instructor. I would really like to see black backgrounds on the slides and a black Windows theme, the content feels a bit like staring into the sun to me but that’s purely subjective.

Ben has done a fantastic job explaining how to set up the Vulkan API, explain its many components in a great, approachable, and easy to understand manner. This lays a great foundation for anyones path into 3D graphics to move forward from. Definitely recommend it to anyone, especially due to the limited resources on learning the api.

This is a fantastic course. I had a really good time following the lectures and learning all about Vulkan. I totally recommend it. Pros: - Hands on course with lectures diving into the code. - The instructor goes into great length explaining every parameter we have to fill in Vulkan structures. - The theory lessons are very good to learn in advance what you're going to do without having to worry about the code. Cons: - The Vulkan validation layer lesson video was replaced with a link to a website tutorial. In the comments the instructor says he'd create a new video 3 years ago, but it's not there yet. - Comments in Q&A are 3 years old and new questions (some posted 2 or 3 weeks ago) have not been not answered yet. - It would have been great if the course showed how to look at the official documentation to learn more about Vulkan on your own and find answers by yourself.

Fantastic course. I'm pretty familiar (though relatively new) to DX12 so can't speak as a complete beginner, but it turned an extremely intimidating and verbose graphics platform into something I understand now! I'm a bit of a udemy noob so not sure if there's a better place for this, but Ben asked for suggestions for further lessons, and I think a big stumbling block I had with DX12 (and would have had with Vulkan had i not learnt a lot by trial and error) is the conceptual grouping of different concepts for practical engine design. Stuff like how to organize and store descriptors, shaders, pipelines, how to organize all these low level fundamentals into sensible higher level objects for a practical and flexible engine. For e.g. in DX12 it took me forever to get a handle on what components of the API should be combined into a 'materials', what is global and what is per instance, what's immutable and what's ever changable, and this is something that's not really covered when you're doing basic fundamentals as by design the tutorials are placing everything in one place and only creating what they need. and its sometimes very intimidating when new as to how to design your engine in a way that's not going to paint yourself into a corner, when everything's not going to be just placed in a renderer class like it is in tutorials. It's something I see very little of and I think would be a valuable course in itself.

This is the best course for Vulkan I have seen. Highly recommended. In the beginning I was a bit skeptical because it had very little flashy graphics. For many lessons it is just a flat colored triangle, then a quad with a texture and finally one simple model. But do not underestimate Vulkan, It is a very complex API and I think Mr. Cook did the perfect approach. Add the bare bone graphics features and focused on the API mostly. I will re-take this course again for the details. Vulkan is a true beast and focus on the API is very important! Thank you Mr. Cook.

Ben's done a great course of breaking down Vulkan's steep, steep learning curve into a set of accessible code-along tutorials with theory thrown in here or there. Because it's Vulkan, there's not much time left over for anything quite so complicated as lighting, and just getting a model on-screen takes about 19 hours of work! His OpenGL course has much more time left over for such things (world lighting, phong reflection models etc). It's a reasonable parallel to the Vulkan tutorial, and for the price a great value way to access the topic.

it was, however, I'd like to know more about memory management as well :)

Thank you for making this course. I've been waiting for a video course like this ever since Vulkan came out in 2016, but I'm glad that we're getting it now that it's got a lot more solid driver support and dev tools.
The explanations are really well-done. Some of your explanations answered questions I had such as "Why doesn't the logical device claim all the queues in a queue family?" It turns out, it's because a physical device can have multiple logical devices, which was another question you answered.
This has been a great walkthrough of the Vulkan API so far!

Very clear and usefull explanation, useful and pragmatic as well.
It is pitty that the captions/subtitles are auto generated nonsense , it would NOT take a lot of energy correcting this.
Sometimes it goes to fast, as soon as a line of code is written, Ben swap to another window without letting the student an opportunity to read double check the syntax, fortunatelly I could often pause the video and slow it down.

This was definitely a good course, an awesome introduction to Vulkan programming. I'd recommend knowing about 3D graphics programming fundamentals (OpenGL or DirectX) before buying it though. The only constructive feedback that I'd provide to the instructor is that the theory lessons could use much better illustrations(the only reason I did not give full 5 stars). But the amount of comments that you'll write on the code itself is incredibly helpful, and explain very well the structuring of the code. Additionally, the videos themselves are excellent in explaining the progress of the project and the instructor explains new additions very well too. I personally loved the constant pattern of adding cleanup code immediately after creating/allocating new objects.

A great introduction to Vulkan which still a very new thing and without many tutorials out there. Very clear explanations supported by the encouragement of adding comments into the code. One of my favorite instructors on Udemy, hope he continues delivering quality content on computer graphics.