In August 2018, Brett returned to the project and started work on a Vulkan renderer. Unfortunately I do not have much commentary to add here because the majority of the Vulkan work was not done by me.
2018-10-02
The first screenshot of a game rendering in Vulkan.
2018-10-03
Figuring out why things don't work involves alot of time staring at things like these.
2018-10-17
The first game to be playable in Vulkan is Shovel Knight!
2018-10-22
Mario Kart 8 was getting ingame, but still showing only a black screen just like with the OpenGL renderer.
2018-10-29
This was the beginning of a long battle with getting the Mario Kart 8 characters to render correctly.
2018-11-02
Barbie looking as great as ever.
2018-11-03
Some small progress with the MK8 characters and other games.
2018-11-04
Trying to fix issues with Super Mario 3D World.
2018-11-04
Finally fixed Mario Kart 8 rendering!
Kind of...
I had to split this into another post, part 6, because there were too many megabytes of images and it would be rude to people's internet.