Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 178 — April 11, 2021


Bindless Descriptors

  • the blog post provides a walkthrough of the bindless implementation in Wicked Engine for both Vulkan and D3D12
  • starting with an overview of what the bindless model is, how it interacts with subresource and different resource types
  • additionally presents the implementation considerations and device capabilities that need to be respected


Skyboxes in UE4

  • the article shows how to integrate skyboxes into UE4
  • explains how cube maps are encoded and how to write the shader to render them
  • additionally covers how to generate and convert data into the suitable format

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Rendering large 3D tilemaps with a single draw call at 3000 FPS

  • the articles describes the evolution of a multiple layered tilemap renderer
  • starting at using the build-in Unity renderers, showing the incremental improvements
  • the final solution is a custom rendering stack that stores the layers as voxels, containing indices into texture array slices


[video] The Basics of SmoothStep, a Useful Shader Function in Unity URP

  • the video explains the smoothstep curve visually
  • provides examples of uses cases, including a showcase of a simple toon shading implementation


how do you calculate correct normals when doing vertex displacement shaders?

  • the Twitter thread provides a detailed explanation on how to correctly calculate normal vectors from vertex displacement


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Game Stack Live

  • registration for Microsoft’s online conference on April 20-21
  • includes talks about several new DirectX features, Xbox innovations, as well as talks from partners


[video] rendering numbers single quad

  • the video provides an in-depth walkthrough of a debugging vertex ID shader
  • IDs are visualized by generating camera facing quads with applied digits from a texture atlas


NeuMIP: Multi-Resolution Neural Materials

  • the paper presents a neural-network-based approach that is aimed at encoding detailed patterns into mipmap style lower resolution representations
  • introduces the idea of neural offset for improved handling of parallax effects


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