I couldn’t find much (helpful) info about this online, other than “just use SAT” in a sentence with no code or explanation. Maybe my Google-Fu failed me. But considering Emil Persson labelled this a hard problem, perhaps it isn’t only me (note: Hard here does not refer to Hard NP. […]
So… this is a highly discussed topic these days. Many engines already do Deferred Shading. Doom 2016 decided to go Forward at 60 FPS with 1080p, thus making popular that big AAA titles with high demands can do Forward just fine (although it’s not the first nor only AAA title that […]
Also in Spanish “No se esperaba 4000 en este momento” Turns out GPUView’s latest log.cmd that comes with Windows ADK for Windows 10 is quite moronic and US-centric. This error happens because the script at C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit\gpuview\log.cmd calls systeminfo: systeminfo > me.txt findstr /sipn /C:”Total Physical […]
So, Oculus is out. Gaming is the main hype, the price is controversial, and I saw a couple of tweets about being excited for VR applications outside of games, but without clue on what to do or where to start. I personally think VR outside of gaming has much more […]
So, I saw NVIDIA’s Do’s and Don’ts. Thanks NV! It’s useful. Go check it out if you haven’t already. But beware a couple gotchas, like, there’s a few bits that are NV specific that I feel should be talked about: Be aware of the fact that there is a cost […]
With new APIs being all the rave (Vulkan, D3D12, Metal), Steam OS pushing for Linux gaming. Even I myself encounter myself doing more and more graphics work in a Linux machine. After quite some time of graphics development on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine it has called to my attention that […]
In Ogre 2.1 we’ve modernized the whole engine. We started by adopting OpenGL 4.4 as our main API, and then we adopted D3D11 as well. It’s been an enlightening experience. From a performance point of view there is no definitive answer “OpenGL is always faster” or “D3D11 is always faster”, because the […]
The thing is OpenGL 4.4/4.5 is actually quite good. But there’s soooo much technical baggage behind it; there was a discussion in Twitter but Twitter’s 140 char limit is not enough for this. So well, here’s my expectations of GLNext: Unified GLSL compiler. This is actually been promised as a […]
There is an interesting post in rastergrid.com from 2010 about this topic. However, I haven’t found on the Internet more information about it; so I thought I should blog about it. Every now and then I see this question pop up over and over again on GameDev.Net. Note that this […]
