Graphics and GPU Programming

All aspects of 2D and 3D graphics programming and theory. Includes questions and discussion regarding Microsoft's XNA branding, unofficial and 3rd-party libraries supporting DirectX or XNA, Khronos' OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and Vulkan graphics APIs.

Specular lighting calculation does not make any sense but it works. Why?

Started by babaliaris with 9 comments, last by babaliaris 1 month, 2 weeks ago

lighting Specular LearnOpenGL.com

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DirectX 12 Renderer

Started by KielanT with 6 comments, last by KielanT 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Local index buffer from a group of merged meshlets

Started by giuseppe7 1 month, 3 weeks ago

C++ lod rendering

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Shadow mapping issue in Vulkan with orthographic projection

Started by snoken with 2 comments, last by snoken 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Vulkan GLSL Shadow

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Understanding GPU's Texture Mapping Unit and Texture Fill Rate

Started by Pagur with 3 comments, last by JoeJ 1 month, 3 weeks ago

AMD GPU TMU

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Progress with Sharpview metaverse client in Rust

Started by Nagle 2 months ago

Rust SecondLife

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Understanding the wavy-like shape in alpha-testing magnification for text rendering

Started by AliAbdulKareem with 11 comments, last by JoeJ 2 months, 1 week ago

SDF alpha Text

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How to apply texture map to n-point polygon using GDI+

Started by mhmooney with 1 comment, last by JoeJ 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Graphics and GPU Programming

On what GPUs the code of unused vertex interpolators will be deleted automatically?

Started by betauser with 5 comments, last by betauser 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Graphics and GPU Programming

how use RayCasting?

Started by cambalinho with 5 comments, last by JoeJ 2 months, 2 weeks ago

VB6VB2010

Graphics and GPU Programming

Realistic Emissive Color Rendering for Stars

Started by Aressera with 7 comments, last by Aressera 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Graphics and GPU Programming

Need help with HLSL (ps_3_0) d3d9 bug (discard vs return)

Started by Corris with 6 comments, last by cgrant 2 months, 3 weeks ago

bug Shaders HLSL

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[D3D12] How to change swap chain output?

Started by coulomb 2 months, 3 weeks ago

directx d3d12 Swapchain

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Frustum culling - getting the "d" component of the frustum planes

Started by p02 with 5 comments, last by JoeJ 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Graphics and GPU Programming

Strange alphachannel blending when painting to a DirectX Rendertarget

Started by triangle_eggbeater669 with 10 comments, last by Juliean 3 months, 1 week ago

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Subsurface scattering in Vulkan path tracing

Started by taby with 68 comments, last by taby 3 months, 1 week ago

Vulkan C++ subsurfacescattering

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Forward path tracing, part 2 -- announcing results after months of tinkering LOL

Started by taby with 9 comments, last by JoeJ 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Vulkan C++ Pathtracing

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Why snap the stabilized cascade shadow mapping sphere radius using 16?

Started by Alundra with 2 comments, last by Alundra 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Graphics and GPU Programming

Writing to an array of floats in a ray generation shader and accumulate result in a compute shader

Started by FrEEzE2046 with 6 comments, last by FrEEzE2046 4 months ago

Graphics and GPU Programming

Reading ray tracing result to the CPU and back onto the GPU in order to do image denoising

Started by taby with 109 comments, last by JoeJ 4 months ago

Vulkan C++ Intel

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Calculating Normals of a Cube

Started by pjslime with 2 comments, last by pjslime 4 months, 1 week ago

OpenGL C glm

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How to render two different meshlets at two different LODs in a Mesh Shader?

Started by giuseppe7 with 6 comments, last by giuseppe7 4 months, 1 week ago

C++ lod rendering

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Monitor is set to 60 Hz, but when I run my game higher than 60 FPS it looks smoother. How can that be?

Started by JackOfCandles with 6 comments, last by m_waddams 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Graphics and GPU Programming

Alpha channel in vertex structure DX9

Started by black4 with 2 comments, last by Juliean 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Graphics and GPU Programming

Animated Mesh Particles using DX12 ExecuteIndirect

Started by inzombiak 4 months, 2 weeks ago

DX12 particlesystem

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Simple PBR BSDF with PDF?

Started by gamer9xxx with 3 comments, last by Vilem Otte 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Graphics and GPU Programming

Forward path tracing

Started by taby with 4 comments, last by taby 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Vulkan Pathtracing bidirectional

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Directx9 Shader Implementation

Started by cvaqabond with 3 comments, last by Geri 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Graphics and GPU Programming

Sick rendering performance cheats

Started by RmbRT with 4 comments, last by RmbRT 5 months ago

Performance rendering optimisation

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Capturing FrontBuffer and Rendering it

Started by gamerhub 5 months ago

Graphics and GPU Programming

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Reticulating splines