I just prefer to use 4.5 code for my glsl cause i got a book on shaders (shader cookbook( and that coveres it very welll, but I also read the red book. was a neat expeirence… to say the least.

Hello,

I'm developing a new indie game called, 'World of Phanama'.
It's a mmorpg.
Now is the first release (version 0.1), a game server is already hosted!
 

DOWNLOAD:

https://thrium.codeberg.page/phanama

best regards,
thrium

Hello,
I'm trying to write resource binding related code for my Vulkan rendererr.

The idea is there are a few static descriptor set layouts, and a few descriptor sets.
Each descriptor set contains data based on how often the data needs to be updated.
Like this: https://zoo.dev/blog/vulkan-resource-bind…

I forgot to set the handle to HDC.  Once resolved the code works fine.  Thanks for the help and the input.

I've used progressive lod only with storing clusters directly in nodes, not groups of clusters.

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no longer do you have to fly around in pitch black, getting lost in the void.

now there are stars, planets, and a local sun.  

the fighters are now lit via the local star's direction vector from the origin.

the planets are also lit f…

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• Baked GI
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Developing your game in Unity? Then you need to pay attention to 5 signs that reveal you should to move into Ray-tracing.

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Woohoo!

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Today, I had the pleasure to interview Ian Deane.

Ian is the developer behind Mesh Baker, the famous Unity asset that lets you drastically reduce your draw calls so your game runs at substantially higher frame-rate.

Welcome Ian!

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SIGGRAPH 2020 announced today that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event will be moved to a virtual conference format.

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There is a single thing that has killed the GPU performance of thousands of mobile games: the famous Unity Overdraw. Do you know what overdraw is and what is doing to you?

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