Vega-strike-engine-source: Port from OpenGL to Vulkan

[BenjamenMeyer]

Vulkan is a newer version of OpenGL, and it'll be supported on Windows and Mac OS X too. It should also provide some higher performance. OpenGL will still be supported and advanced by Chronos (who also makes Vulkan)

How big an effort is this?
Is it worth the benefit?

[royfalk]

Only if it is a relatively small effort.
Consider that we want to ditch the whole 3d engine and port to Ogre.
I suspect that we wouldn’t be touching the low level graphics in that case and leaving it to the engine.

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Vulkan is a newer version of OpenGL, and it'll be supported on Windows and Mac OS X too. It should also provide some higher performance. OpenGL will still be supported and advanced by Chronos (who also makes Vulkan)

How big an effort is this?
Is it worth the benefit?

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[stephengtuggy]

My 2 cents:

I think switching to Vulkan may be a rather large effort. (Though I don't know for sure.) But I definitely think it's worth it. Vulkan is the future, as far as I can tell. We won't be able to avoid it forever. Why not make the switch during the current push to modernize/overhaul/refactor the code?

[BenjamenMeyer]

This is really part of a larger discussion that got wrapped up in #72 and led to a lot of confusion. As that discussion involves this and updating any underlying libraries to do this, I'm closing this out in favor of #170.