Walnut

Walnut is a simple application framework built with Dear ImGui and designed to be used with Vulkan - basically this means you can seemlessly blend real-time Vulkan rendering with a great UI library to build desktop applications. The plan is to expand Walnut to include common utilities to make immediate-mode desktop apps and simple Vulkan applications.

Currently supports Windows - with macOS and Linux support planned. Setup scripts support Visual Studio 2022 by default.

Forest Launcher - an application made with Walnut

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2022 (not strictly required, however included setup scripts only support this)
• Vulkan SDK (preferably a recent version)

Getting Started

Once you've cloned, run scripts/Setup.bat to generate Visual Studio 2022 solution/project files. Once you've opened the solution, you can run the WalnutApp project to see a basic example (code in WalnutApp.cpp). I recommend modifying that WalnutApp project to create your own application, as everything should be setup and ready to go.

3rd party libaries

• Dear ImGui
• GLFW
• stb_image
• GLM (included for convenience)

Additional

• Walnut uses the Roboto font (Apache License, Version 2.0)