Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 326 - February 11th, 2024


Vulkanised 2024

  • The slides for the talks of the 2024 Edition of the Vulkanised conference have been released
  • 3-day conference covering Vulkan SDK changes, synchronization, common learning mistakes, presentations of integration into larger systems, shading language developments, as well as future looking developments


[video] Creating an Instance // Vulkan for Beginners #2

  • the video in a series of Vulkan tutorials explains how to create a Vulkan Instance
  • explains the API concepts required to understand
  • code samples are provided


[video] Water Foam - Advanced Materials - Episode 40

  • the video tutorial explains how to add surface foam around the edges of objects that intersect the water surface
  • shows how to implement the foam effect and how to limit the effect to the area around the intersection
  • implementation is shown using both Unreal and Unity using a visual shading system


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Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?

  • the article presents the authors’ work on allowing the DXC compiler to be built into a static library for Linux, MacOS, and Windows
  • additionally presents how to remove it’s possible to replace the dependency on DXIL.dll for shader signing


Toward a next-gen vulkan shading language: our journey with slang

  • the presentation shows an overview of the Slang shading language
  • presents how it fits into the ecosystem, what features are supported, and what additional capabilities it brings to shader authors
  • shows how the integrated automatic differentiation can be used for different use cases


[video] Explaining my game engine in 2023 - Part3: Tile-based light culling, compute shaders, RenderDoc

  • the video explains Forward+ shading techniques
  • shows how to express frustum culling, how compute shader allows the workload to be expressed
  • additionally presents how to use RenderDoc to visualize the involved data


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