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                Entity Component Systems
              
          
    Entity Component Systems

collecting links and documents about the topic
Articles

Object Systems (2004, as used in Thief 1998)
http://chrishecker.com/images/6/6f/ObjSys.ppt

  
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                Orthodox C++
              
          
    Orthodox C++

This article has been updated and is available here.


## GPUOptimizationForGameDev.md

      
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                GPU Optimization for GameDev
              
          
    GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview


2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
2013 - Performance Optimization Guidelines and the GPU Architecture behind them
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


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                Useful Resources for Rendering Volumetric Clouds
              
          
    Volumetric Clouds Resources List


A. Schneider, "Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes," in GPU Pro 7: Advanced
Rendering Techniques, 2016, pp. 97-127. (Follow up presentations here, and here.)


S. Hillaire, "Physically Based Sky, Atmosphere and Cloud Rendering in Frostbite"
in Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice course, SIGGRAPH 2016. [video] [course notes] [scatter integral shadertoy]


[R. Högfeldt, "Convincing Cloud Rendering – An Implementation of Real-Time Dynamic Volumetric Clouds in Frostbite"](https://odr.chalmers.se/hand


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                A small state-of-the-art study on custom engines
              
          
    CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study


WARNING: Article moved to separate repo to allow users contributions: https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines
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](https:

  
## 2025-02-02_What-is-an-arena-in-memory-allocation.md

      
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What is an "arena" in memory allocation?

I first leanred about "arena" when I was trying to understand the internal of [glibc malloc][glibc-alloc] around 2010,
but I [later realized][trend] the concept is narrowly defined [in][arena1] [other][arena2] [context][arena3].
This blog post explains the difference in definition and the limitations in the so-called "arena allocators" we use today.
Background: why is malloc needed?


## 2025-02-04_When-to-use-a-memory-pool.md

      
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When to use a memory pool?

A [memory pool][mp-wiki] is a data structure for allocating fixed-size memory blocks.
This definition has stayed same since I learned it around 2010.
Although you can find more general definitions via Google, those are the minority.
The APIs of memory pool implementations vary, but they generally look like: