Learn WebGPU

For native graphics in C++.

This documentation walks you through the use of the WebGPU graphics API to create native 3D applications in C++ from scratch, for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Contents

• Introduction
• Getting Started
  • Project setup
  • Opening a window
  • Hello WebGPU
  • The Adapter
  • The Device
  • The Command Queue
  • Playing with buffers
  • First Color
  • C++ wrapper
• Basic 3D Rendering
  • Hello Triangle
  • Input Geometry
    • A first Vertex Attribute
    • Multiple Attributes
    • Index Buffer
    • Loading from file
  • Shader Uniforms
    • A first uniform
    • More uniforms
    • Dynamic uniforms
  • 3D Meshes
    • A simple example
    • Depth buffer
    • Transformation matrices
    • Projection matrices
    • Basic shading
    • Loading from file
  • Texturing
    • A first texture
    • Texture mapping
    • Sampler
    • Loading from file
  • Some interaction
    • Refactoring
    • Resizing the window (WIP)
    • Camera control (WIP)
    • Simple GUI (WIP)
  • Lighting and Material (WIP)
    • Recap (WIP)
    • Specularity (WIP)
    • Normal mapping (WIP)
    • Physically-Based Materials (WIP)
    • Image-Based Lighting (WIP)
• Basic Compute
  • Compute Pipeline (WIP)
  • Procedural Geometry (WIP)
  • Image Processing (WIP)
• Advanced Techniques
  • Benchmarking (WIP)
  • Multi-Sampling (WIP)
  • Scene tree (WIP)
  • Screen capture (WIP)
  • Shadow maps (WIP)
  • Raytracing (WIP)
• Appendices
  • Teaching native graphics in 2023
  • Feedback needed
  • Debugging (WIP)
  • Building for the Web (WIP)
  • Memory Model (WIP)
  • References
  • Temporary page