raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

Erfan-Ahmadi

1. What does the Rendering Engine Need?

• Rendering Engine
  • Support for Multiple Graphics APIs : OpenGL | Vulkan | DirectX12 | DirectX11 | Metal
  • Content Export Pipeline : Create Maya/Max Plugins to export meshes based on Renderers needs. (Assimp Commercial Licence -> Pay)
  • Texture Compression Libraries
  • Material System : Artists Configure shaders, textures, parameters to import in game
  • Game-side Manager of Models/Materials/Lights
  • Good Visibility System (Frustum/Occlusion) (VisibilityBuffers?)
  • Multi-Threded Submission System to reduce cost of submission to GPU
• Lighting/Shadow Rendering System

Erfan-Ahmadi

GPU Gems 1 - Chapter 23. Depth of Field: A Survey of Techniques
GPU Gems 2  
GPU Gems 3 - Chapter 28. Practical Post-Process Depth of Field

GPU Pro 1 - Realistic Depth of Field in Post-Production
GPU Pro 2 - Post-Proccessing Effects on Mobile Devices
GPU Pro 3 - 
GPU Pro 4 - Images Space -> First Two Chapters
GPU Pro 5 - 241 - Bokeh Effects on The SPU
GPU Pro 6 - 

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

nerzhulart

$userPath = $env:USERPROFILE
$pathExclusions = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
$processExclusions = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList

$pathExclusions.Add('C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET') > $null
$pathExclusions.Add('C:\Windows\assembly') > $null
$pathExclusions.Add($userPath + '\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio') > $null
$pathExclusions.Add('C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages') > $null
$pathExclusions.Add('C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild') > $null
$pathExclusions.Add('C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0') > $null

bschlinker

#include <chrono>
#include <iomanip>
#include <iostream>

string getTimestamp() {
  // get a precise timestamp as a string
  const auto now = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
  const auto nowAsTimeT = std::chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(now);
  const auto nowMs = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::milliseconds>(
      now.time_since_epoch()) % 1000;

bkaradzic

Why I think Immediate Mode GUI is way to go for GameDev tools

Prerequisites

Before you continue, if you don't know what IMGUI is don't bother reading this post, just ignore it, don't write anything in comments section, etc. If you're curious about IMGUI see bottom of this post, otherwise continue whatever you were doing, this post it's not for you. Thanks!

If you know what IMGUI is, for context read following presentations and blog posts:

• Insomniac’s Web Tools Postmortem

btfak

How to use Hexo and deploy to GitHub Pages

• https://github.com/hexojs/hexo
• https://hexo.io/docs/

1. Install Hexo

$ sudo npm install -g hexo-cli

$ hexo -v
hexo-cli: 0.1.9

subfuzion

How do I clone a GitHub wiki?

Any GitHub wiki can be cloned by appending wiki.git to the repo url, so the clone url for the repo https://myorg/myrepo/ is: git@github.com:myorg/myrepo.wiki.git (for ssh) or https://github.com/my/myrepo.wiki.git (for https).

You make edits, and commit and push your changes, like any normal repo. This wiki repo is distinct from any clone of the project repo (the repo without wiki.get appended).

How do I add images to a wiki page?

x5lcfd

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

namespace UnityEngine.UI
{
    public class Empty4Raycast : MaskableGraphic
    {
        protected Empty4Raycast()
        {
            useLegacyMeshGeneration = false;