Does osgEarth have a plan to support Vulkan?

[yuxiangyu]

I have seen the vsg project in github (https://vsg-dev.github.io/VulkanSceneGraph/). Weather osgearth has the develop plan to surpport this project?

[gwaldron]

The team is doing some R+D work with Vulkan and VSG. However there is no actual plan to support them at this time.

[christ0phd]

Any news on this topic?

[nmielcarek]

I saw this linked recently in the vsg-users email list which appears to be an interpretation of osgEarth using the VulkanSceneGraph library:

https://github.com/timoore/vsgEarth

[christ0phd]

Thanks, I've found it, too. But as far as I understand their approach is something different than porting.

[timoore]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 9:47 AM christ0phd ***@***.***> wrote: Thanks, I've found it, too. But as far as I understand their approach is something different than porting. I would call vsgEarth a "port," or at least the start of one. I took the

approach of using osgEarth layers as data sources for building a stock VSG scene graph, more or less, instead of diving in with reimplementing the REX terrain engine and all the other custom osgEarth nodes. No matter the porting strategy, there will be a lot of work to produce a complete version of osgEarth that uses Vulkan. Tim

[christ0phd]

Sorry, my fault, so I misunderstood the docs and sources I've found!

[gwaldron]

Not a port, but a new library using VSG.
#2281
https://github.com/pelicanmapping/rocky