https://mynameismjp.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/blendedoit.zip Back in December, Morgan McGuire and Louis Bavoil published a paper called Weighted Blended Order-Independent Transparency. In case you haven’t read it yet (you really should!), it proposes an OIT scheme that uses a weighted blend of all surfaces that overlap a given pixel. In other words finalColor = w0 * c0 + w1 * […]
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 […]
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 yet another round of research into modern shadow mapping techniques, I decided to […]
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 […]
When it comes to writing shaders, Notepad++ is currently my editor of choice. The most recent release of Notepad++ added version 2.0 of their User Defined Language (UDL) system, which adds quite a few improvements. I’ve been using an HLSL UDL file that I downloaded from somewhere else for a while now, and I decided […]
Previous article in the series: A Quick Overview of MSAA Despite having the flexibility to implement a custom resolve for MSAA, the “standard” box filter resolve is still commonly used in games. While the box filter works well enough, it has some characteristics that can be considered undesirable for a reconstruction filter. In particular, the […]
Some time ago Charles de Rousiers adapted my Bokeh Depth of Field sample to OpenGL, and we contributed it as a chapter to the recently-released OpenGL Insights. Bokeh is still an ongoing area of R&D for myself, and hopefully I’ll be able to share some more improvements and optimizations once my current project is announced […]
