niagara: Cleaning up

• Vulkan stream - part 3
• fixing validation layer errors, explanation of pipeline barriers
• implementation of swap chain resize
• shader compiler integration with Visual Studio

niagara: Rendering a mesh

• Vulkan stream - part 4
• overview and integration of Vulkan extension loader
• loading an .obj and rendering a mesh using classical vertex pipeline and manual vertex pulling

“Cheap” Diamond Rendering

• explanation of shader for diamond rendering in a forward rendering architecture
• uses a precalculated cubemap from the inside of the object to simulate internal bounces

My journey into fractals

• discussing many aspects of making a voxel-based game
• including cone tracing, lighting, shadows, ambient occlusion, volumetric lighting, and atmospheric effects

Another View on the Classic Ray-AABB Intersection Algorithm for BVH Traversal

• presents the steps required to vectorize the Ray-AABB approach by Andrew Kensler
• results are very similar to the recent jcgt paper

Running Average Encoding - Why It Works

• derivation of the progressive spherical Gaussian encoding technique discussed in last week’s issue

Porting My CUDA Path Tracer to ptx-builder/linker

• explores changes to CUDA path tracer with Rust, what improved since the last post and what problems persists

GLSL cross-compiler tool

• command line tool that allows cross compilation from GLSL to HLSL, GLES and MSL (Metal)
• implemented using a combination of Glslang and SPIRV-cross

A Comparison of Modern Graphics APIs

• work in progress post comparing API concepts between D3D12, Vulkan, Metal, and OpenGL

DirectX Raytracing and the Windows 10 October 2018 Update

• Windows raytracing support is available starting with Windows 10 October 2018 update

Video Series: Real-Time Ray Tracing for Interactive Global Illumination Workflows in Frostbite

• breakdown of “Real-Time Ray Tracing for Interactive Global Illumination Workflows in Frostbite” into short sections
• key takeaways for each section is provided in the post

Parsing Shader Includes

• explains how to parse a shader file for includes using regex (implemented using Rust)

SRP101

• collection of resources to get started with the Unity Scriptable Render Pipeline

Perspective Matrices and Depth

• visualization of floating point precision when a classical OpenGL projection matrix is used

Art That Moves: Creating Animated Materials with Shader Graph

• explanation of Unity shader graph nodes
• walkthrough of example shaders that allow the creation of a small island scene

PIX-1810.02 – Direct3D11 and WinML

• new PIX features are available with Windows 10 October 2018
• can capture D3D11 applications using Direct3D 11 on 12 translation layer and WinML workloads

Vulkan SDK 1.1.85.0

• adds support for Turing extensions

Qualcomm Releases Snapdragon Profiler with Vulkan Support

• new profiler version now supports Vulkan