For the longest time I've struggled with how I wanted to handle materials in my graphics framework. When searching around for existing solutions I found basically two things.

A: Shaders with strict inputs:
A single shader that had specific inputs that were textures, floats, etc etc.

B: Node based shad…

Over the past couple of days I wanted to try out order independent transparency. AMD showed it off in their "Mecha Demo". And with a little help from here I was able to get it functioning in my own graphics framework.

In Cyril's blog he uses some bindless buffer extensions from NVidia. In my impleme…

I thought I'd share some thoughts on two features I wished C++ had, tell me what you think.


Identifier Template Parameters

I'd really like to be able to take an identifier token as a template parameter, similar to a macro but it could only accept a single identifier.

You could use it somewhat like thi…

So I've been contemplating a good way to manage assets used by my game and so far I've been losing the mental battle.

My current idea is a custom smart pointer much like shared_ptr, in addition to reference counting it keeps track of which files have been loaded and simply returns a reference if its…