For those of us that have been using it from the start, it can be hard to believe that Direct3D 12 has been around for nearly ten years now. Windows 10 was released on July 29th 2015, and D3D12 has be...

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Amit's guide to math, algorithms, and code for hexagonal grids

Here is a rough approximation of float multiplication (source): float rough_float_multiply(float a, float b) { constexpr uint32_t bias = 0x3f76d000; return bit_cast<float>(bit_cast<uint32_…

Rainy days always remind me of summers at my grandmother’s farm in the Catskills, spending lazy days floating on the lake, laptop in hand, pipelining SPU asm loops until there were no more empty slots in the schedule to fill. Those days were pretty great. But do you know what’s not so great? Journalists blindly repeating the SPUs were difficult to program without any real understanding of the nuanced details. Not cool.In this post I am going to attempt to give a Fair And Balanced1, unbiased2, and nuanced (笑) description of what people usually mean when they complain about various aspects of the SPUs. The goal is to keep it nontechnical enough for humans to understand, while providing enough details to capture nuance beyond the usual generalisations. I will fail at both goals As always, this post is constantly changing as I get ideas/feedback from the Smart Kidz. Please feel free to share this with a games journalist you love!

What started this article is that I wanted to support refraction in my realtime game engine (which you can learn more about here). I didn't find a lot of clear documentation on the subject, so I went ...

Asset Cooker is a build system aimed at game assets, for custom engines. It leverages Windows&#39; USN journals to robustly track which files change, and only cook what needs to be cooked. - GitHu...