How to use Vulkan in C#?

[Madie]

Basically everything I find on how to use the Vulkan API and set up basic rendering is for C++ and for some reason can't get them working in C# (I don't have a lot of experience with either language). Does anybody have any good tutorials or know where I could find them?

 

[Rian Drake]

We have samples coming soon, but join us on discord if you haven’t already!

People are already starting to share their Vulkan code in Brutal

 

[Arda]

Hi, I made a sample project to learn how to use brutal myself. I wrote the parts that I know from Vulkan C++ and had AI fix my mistakes and assumptions. So full disclosure, while this is not vibe coded, I did use AI assistance for learning purposes. It uses Vulkan on Windows and Linux, OpenGL on Macs. I have not gotten around to use MoltenVK for this on Mac yet.

Link to repo: https://github.com/ardahamamcioglu/HelloBrutal.git

 

[Rian Drake]

Amazing, thank you for sharing!

 

[Arda]

Thank you for making BRUTAL public!
I like C# and I like having the freedom of coding whatever while having some level of abstraction from the busy work.

 

[Karmoq]

Thanks for sharing this! It's exactly what I need to get learn Vulkan from the comfort of C#, since i've never used vulkan before!

 

[Madie]

We have samples coming soon, but join us on discord if you haven’t already!

People are already starting to share their Vulkan code in Brutal

I am in it already, but not phone verified (and not planning on doing so), so can't send any messages.

 

[Madie]

Hi, I made a sample project to learn how to use brutal myself. I wrote the parts that I know from Vulkan C++ and had AI fix my mistakes and assumptions. So full disclosure, while this is not vibe coded, I did use AI assistance for learning purposes. It uses Vulkan on Windows and Linux, OpenGL on Macs. I have not gotten around to use MoltenVK for this on Mac yet.

Link to repo: https://github.com/ardahamamcioglu/HelloBrutal.git

Amazing, thanks a lot!

Personally I don't mind AI usage as long as it's used as a tool, so no worries there.

 

[EvilHamster]

Hi, I made a sample project to learn how to use brutal myself. I wrote the parts that I know from Vulkan C++ and had AI fix my mistakes and assumptions. So full disclosure, while this is not vibe coded, I did use AI assistance for learning purposes. It uses Vulkan on Windows and Linux, OpenGL on Macs. I have not gotten around to use MoltenVK for this on Mac yet.

Link to repo: https://github.com/ardahamamcioglu/HelloBrutal.git

Looking at the new examples dropped by @Rian Drake and after having a look at yours yesterday I noticed he uses this line as a 'cleaner' way to do the "Prefer Vulkan" check.

if (Platform.IsMacOS)
Glfw.WindowHint(GlfwWindowHint.OpenGlForwardCompat, 1);

Not saying its better just wanted to share <3
I will probably use this way for prototyping

 

[Arda]

I should check his examples. In the end I just turned it into a universal check for vulkan instead of a mac only thing. I am working on a branch that auto discovers vulkan SDK on mac so you don't have to run

source ~/VulkanSDK/*/setup-env.sh && dotnet run

to run the application with vulkan.