Command buffers for multi-threaded rendering

• explains a renderer architecture that separates command generation from execution
• commands have an associated sort key that is used to determine the execution order
• shows how to handle materials, resource updates and some advice for debugging such a system

I3D19 Keynote: Advances in Rendering, Graphics Research and Video Game Production (Steve McAuley)

• video recording of the i3D keynote discussed in detail in issue 88
• additionally contains the QA that is not covered in the slides

Texture Compression in Games

• survey by the ASTC Khronos group to understand compression use in games

Real-Time Hybrid Hair Rendering using Vulkan

• a paper about a new hair rendering technique
• the technique is a hybrid between strand-based rasterizer and volume-based raymarching
• example implementation is available here

Bindless Deferred Decals in The Surge 2 - Philip Hammer

• video recording of the talk discussed in detail in issue 87

Rendering Line Lights

• explains how to implement line lights
• using a Most Representative Point (MRP) approximation
• finds the point with the most significant contribution along the line and treats that as point light source

New in D3D12 – Motion Estimation

• D3D12 motion estimation support exposes access to the motion estimation hardware found in supported GPUs
• resolved motion vectors are stored in 2D textures, ready to be used by other application stages
• the article presents the API

Lighthouse 2

• discusses a new renderer project aimed at providing a high-performance to enable ray tracing research
• split into layers to provide application logic, scene representation and actual render codes
• render codes are plugins that can be shared

Using Basis Universal Texture Compression with Metal

• shows how to compile the Basis command line tool
• use it to compress a texture
• and runtime code required to load it into a metal application

GPU timing data in New Timing Captures

• the timing capture view now supports GPU workload visualization
• the article shows the different features
• overlapping GPU work on the same queue and on different queues can be visualized

Using DXC In Practice

• the article explains how to use the DXC compiler API
• compile a shader, shader reflection, and signing

SIGGRAPH 2019 Ray Tracing Roundup

• updated page with all raytracing related sessions, talks and papers from Siggraph 2019

[Twitter] Low-Level Rendering API discussion

• Twitter thread about modern APIs
• strengths, weaknesses, opinions, and suggestions for an alternate design