You may have noticed that my latest sample now has a proper UI instead of the homegrown sliders and keyboard toggles that I was using in my older samples. What you might not have noticed is that there’s a whole bunch of behind-the-scenes changes to go with that new UI! Before I ramble on, here’s […]
You can find an ad-free static site version of this post here: https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/shadow-maps/ A little over a year ago I was looking to overhaul our shadow rendering at work in order to improve overall quality, as well as simplify the workflow for the lighting artists (tweaking biases all day isn’t fun for anybody). After doing […]
Tiled resources seems to be the big-ticket item for the upcoming DX11.2 update. While the online documentation has some information about the new functions added to the API, there’s currently no information about the two tiers of tiled resource functionality being offered. Fortunately there is a sample app available that provides some clues. After poking […]
The Danger Zone 