mrhelmut

Coding style

Over the years of porting pure C# games to consoles, we defined a set of coding guidelines which ensures that porting and performances go smooth on every possible platforms and C# runtimes.

The main reason for these guidelines is that C# runtimes on exotic platforms might be very outdated and/or limited in language features due to the very nature of using Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation, or even sometime going as far as transpiling IL Code to C++. Some runtimes are also extremely sensitive to garbage collections, which can produce very visible micro freezes during gameplay, hence our guidelines also target the limitation of garbage.

These guidelines will be very counter-intuitive to enterprise C# developers. Bear in mind that C# is a language that wasn't designed for games and performance in the first place, that using it in this context isn't effecient, and that pretty old C# runtimes mean that we have to bend the language to make it fit our needs. Also keep in mind that we can't count on

silvesthu

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

• 2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
• 2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
• 2015 - Render Hell 2.0
• 2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
• 2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
• 2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon
• 2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES

schmich

Programming Media Keys on the Ducky One 2 Skyline

To use media keys on the Ducky One 2 Skyline, you must record a macro to bind the media function to a hotkey combination, i.e. Fn plus some key.

Example

Important: In the instructions below, "Press X+Y+Z" means press and hold key X, press and hold key Y, press and hold key Z in that order, and then release all three.

As an example, to bind Fn+PgUp to the play/pause media function:

TarasOsiris

Shader "Custom/Flow Map"
{
    Properties
    {
        [PerRendererData] _MainTex ("Sprite Texture", 2D) = "white" {}
        _Color ("Tint", Color) = (1,1,1,1)
        // Flow
        _FlowMap ("Flow Map", 2D) = "white" {}
        _FlowSpeed ("Flow Speed", float) = 0.05

leandrosilva

// Asynchronous Client Socket Example
// http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bew39x2a.aspx

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Threading;
using System.Text;

// State object for receiving data from remote device.