Preparing the developing environment

Before you can start developing games with Vulkan and Qt, you need to make a few preparations. First, you need to install the Vulkan SDK. To do that, head to https://www.lunarg.com/vulkan-sdk/, download a file for your operating system, and execute or unpack it. Examine the index.html file in the doc subdirectory in the installation folder to see whether you need to perform any additional actions.

Next, you need a Qt build with Vulkan support; it must be Qt 5.10 or later. If you have installed the most recent version available through the installer, it may already be suitable.

To check whether your Qt version has Vulkan support, create a new Qt Console Application, ensure that you select the kit corresponding ...

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