Best place to start shader programming
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Community contributions featuredShaderX2 books are freely available and cover SM 3.0, as averagejoe said, SM 3.0 is kind of the standard, yes there is shader model 5.0 these days but a ton is still done in 3.0…
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Game multithreading
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I have a HLSL shader I have written that accomplishes multiple tasks for terrain I have. 1) Applies base texture to whole terrain 2) Applies detail texture that is tiled -- Even…
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Hi, I have created a heightmapped terrain using quadtrees, my quadtree is setup in a top-down approach because I will end up using the terrain system to render a planet. Each pa…
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I have implemented a basic chunked lod algorithm using quad trees. The part I am not stuck at is with error metrics to determine which LOD (I generate 6 levels, the 1st being th…
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See all in DiscussionsShaderX2 books are freely available and cover SM 3.0, as averagejoe said, SM 3.0 is kind of the standard, yes …
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You are right, though - the OP needs to do some research and find out what his needs are before …
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It all depends on what you want to use your threads for. I think you should do a bit of …
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