Monthly Archives: March 2018

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Vertex Formats Part 2: Fetch vs Pull

This entry was posted in Graphics Ogre and tagged Merge instancing Programmable Vertex Pulling PSO Vertex tricks on March 4, 2018 by Matias

Welcome to the final of this 2-part series!. You can find Vertex Formats Part 1: Compression Another issue that seems to be loose in understanding is how GPUs are shaping up in the future. Traditionally, vertex formats were “push”. That means the vertex data was forced into the shader as input, […]

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Vertex Formats Part 1: Compression

This entry was posted in Graphics Ogre and tagged Lossy Compression VAO Vertex Array Object Vertex Attributes Vertex Format Vertex Packing on March 4, 2018 by Matias

So, I tweeted What I just did: “Switch to SNORM16 for position and multiply the vertex by 64.0 when rendering the player’s cockpit for enough precision” – Me, right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnod9vtB4xA And that sparked waaay more attention than I thought. But it also made me realize lots of devs have incomplete […]

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