Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 222 - February 13, 2022


In the works: HLSL Shader Model 6.7

  • the blog post presents the new features of shader model 6.7
  • improved texture operations such as Raw Gather (unmodified retrieval of the 4 samples from bilinear sampling)
  • writable MSAA textures, quad-level operations
  • additionally introduces programmable offsets for load and store from runtime variables instead of compile-time constants


Super Imposter shader: my journey to make a high quality imposter shader

  • the article provides an overview of the development process of using a texture-based imposter system using raymarching
  • shows the different steps in the development process, quality improvements along the way
  • additionally discusses what ideas the author tried, what did and didn’t work, and discusses why they didn’t work


[video] Real-Time Ray Tracing | RTX ON in Vulkan | Vulkan Lecture Series Ep. 6, Real-Time Rendering Course

  • Video lecture series of the real-time rendering course at TU Wien
  • this part covers how to use hardware-accelerated ray tracing from Vulkan
  • covers everything required to render a static scene, accelerations, ray traversal, shader bindings as well as processing hits
  • additionally presents ray queries to allow ray tracing from any shader stage and discusses the limitations


A Shader Trick

  • the article discusses a problem with effects caused by loss of floating-point precision when game-time is growing
  • presents a method to reset periodic timers cleanly and still allow for continuous motion
  • the suggested solution uses integer multipliers with required precision to make resetting motions natural from an effect tweaking perspective


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Technically Art: Issue 121 (11.02.2022)

  • a collection of tweets about tech art, VFX, and related topics
  • showcases of in-progress developments and experiments


[video] How Shaders Work (in OpenGL) | How to Code Minecraft Ep. 3

  • video introduction tutorial to shader programming with OpenGL
  • provides a conceptual overview of how to author, load, and use shaders GLSL shaders from OpenGL
  • discusses vertex transformations required project vertices onto the screen
  • shows how to access information from the CPU in shaders
  • presents multiple examples to show the practical usage


[video] Interactive Graphics 10 - Textures on the GPU

  • the video session explains Texture set up for usage from GPU shaders
  • covering texture types, addressing, tiling, texture filtering
  • shows how to access the data from the GPU and the necessary OpenGL setup steps
  • additionally provides an overview of the Mesh Color technique and how to represent it as texture maps


Ray-tracing in 10ms: Ambient occlusion

  • the article provides an overview of using raytracing to generate ambient occlusion
  • recaps of ambient occlusion techniques for rasterization, high-level representation of raytracing based implementation


WebGPU January 2022 meetup — takeaways

  • a roundup of WebGPU topics discussed at the January meetup
  • contains references to best practices, new extensions as well as community work showcases
  • additionally contains information about the state of support across browsers


Thanks to Mike Turitzin for support of this series.


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