This plugin replaces core loop & rendering in Bevy with Vulkano backend. Basically this allows you to be fully in control of your render pipelines with Vulkano without having to bother yourself with architecture much. Just roll your pipelines and have fun.

This makes it extremely easy to do following with Vulkano:

• Windowless Apps
• Multiple Windows

The plugin contains functionality for resizing, multiple windows & utility for beginning and ending the frame. However, you'll need to do everything in between yourself. A good way to get started is to look at the examples.

1. Add VulkanoWinitPlugin. It also adds WindowPlugin and anything that's needed.
2. Then create your own rendering systems using vulkano's pipelines (See example.). You'll need to know how to use Vulkano.
3. If you want to use egui library with this, add egui_winit_vulkano & egui to your dependencies and bevy_vulkano with feature gui.

pub struct PluginBundle;

impl PluginGroup for PluginBundle {
    fn build(&mut self, group: &mut PluginGroupBuilder) {
        group.add(bevy::input::InputPlugin::default());
        group.add(VulkanoWinitPlugin::default());
    }
}

fn main() {
    App::new()
        // Vulkano configs (Modify this if you want to add features to vulkano (vulkan backend).
        // You can also disable primary window opening here
        .insert_resource(VulkanoWinitConfig::default())
        // Window configs for primary window
        .insert_resource(WindowDescriptor {
            width: 1920.0,
            height: 1080.0,
            title: "Bevy Vulkano".to_string(),
            vsync: false,
            resizable: true,
            mode: WindowMode::Windowed,
            ..WindowDescriptor::default()
        })
        .add_plugins(PluginBundle)
        .run();
}

Add following to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies.bevy]
version = "0.6"
default-features = false
# Add features you need, but don't add "render". This might disable a lot of features you wanted... e.g SpritePlugin
features = []

[dependencies.bevy_vulkano]
version = "*"
default-features = false
# gui or no gui...
features = ["gui"]

# For gui
egui = "0.16.0"
egui_winit_vulkano = "0.15"
# For render pipelines etc.
vulkano-shaders = "0.28"
vulkano = "0.28"
vulkano-win = "0.28"
vulkano-win = "0.28"

cargo run --example circle --features example_has_gui
cargo run --example circle
cargo run --example multi_window_gui --features example_has_gui
cargo run --example windowless_compute

ToDo:

• Update Cargo.toml to new crates once Vulkano 0.28 is out...
• Publish as a crate
• Github action workflow