Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 44 — June 24, 2018

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Published June 24, 2018 Imported
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  • discusses problems with synchronization between unrelated work when using a single command queue
  • showcases how two command queues can achieve better overall utilization at the cost of longer latency
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  • explanation of the simball environment that has been initially designed for the Maxwell Renderer
  • descriptions of the different object features, what they are designed to provide tests for and how it’s supposed to be used
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  • shows how Zelda uses an FX in world space to make objects visible in high grass by adjusting the position of the effect based on the environment
  • fix clipping with the object by offsetting the FX towards the camera
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  • twitter thread with a checklist of common problems that can cause objects not be rendered in OpenGL / D3D
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  • the technique that mixes rasterization and temporal antialiasing to only ray trace pixels where a classification algorithm determines that TAA will not produce good results
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  • C++ source code and prebuild demo application are released
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  • The decals are projected from world space onto the mesh UV and rendered into separate per-object decal textures
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  • optimizations to raytracer using SIMD
  • extending AABB tests to deal with various edge cases
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  • a new set of SDR ODT (Output Device Transforms)
  • first Output Transforms that combine the RRT (Reference Rendering Transform) and ODT (Output Device Transforms) into a single transform

  • shows how the runtime/compile time selection feature of the Rust programming language is used to select different SSE intrinsics based on the available hardware

  • overview of rendering API support for the user of Roblox
  • Metal reaches above 60% on MacOS and D3D11 77% on Windows
  • on Android, Vulkan is available on 20% of devices

  • new sdk contains VK_KHR_get_display_properties2 and VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count extensions

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