This is Part I, you can find Part II is here After talking with a few fellow Ogre team members, other colleagues, and even with community, I’ve realized that many are not familiar with the sorted vector pattern as a replacement for an std::map. Normally, C++’s std map (a Dictionary […]
So, I’ve been working on a fork. There’s also another one. Both will eventually merge The code is far from finished at the time of writing. But the direction where we’re heading to is already quite clear. You can even glimpse a bit of what’s coming: Yeah, we’re going bindless […]
Update 2015-07-19: Gitorious is dead. The repo has been forked in GitHub. Links were updated. As I said in previous posts, I consider Qt Creator a very good candidate for replacing Visual Studio. I believe it has potential to become the IDE closest to perfection. However, the debugger irritates […]
Understanding how your algorithm works and its use cases is very important. It allows you strip code you will never use (or better yet, never code for it). Or may be this could be seen as a case of overengineering. Such is the example of Ogre’s LodStrategy. There are multiple […]
It’s often believed that in order to achieve a linear depth buffer, one needs to counter the W division by multiplying the Z component of the position before returning the vertex shader: At least that’s what I thought too for a very long time, ever since I read Robert Dunlop’s […]
