Diligent solutions to rendering problems
This is a major release that introduces a number of significant improvements: Pipeline resource signatures enable applications to define explicit shader resource layouts that allow sharing shader resource binding objects between different pipeline states. Multiple immediate contexts is an abstraction…
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Check out cross-platform GLTF 2.0 loader and physically-based renderer.
Modern graphics applications can best be described as client-server systems where CPU is a client that records rendering commands and puts them into queue(s), and GPU is a server that asynchronously pulls commands from the queue(s) and processes them. As a result, commands…
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Release v2.4 introduces explicit control of resources state transitions, fixes some multi-threading issues and implements a number of improvements to the API that make it better organized and more clear. API changes: Added
RESOURCE_STATE enum that defines the resource state Added
RESOURCE_STATE_TRANSITION_MODE enum that controls resource state transition…
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Release v2.3.b notes: Enabled Vulkan backend on Linux API Changes Implemented separate texture samplers: Added
UseCombinedTextureSamplers and
CombinedSamplerSuffix members to
ShaderCreationAttribs structure. When separate samplers are used (
UseCombinedTextureSamplers == false), samplers are set in the same way as other shader variables via shader or…
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Introduction Graphics APIs have come a long way from small set of basic commands allowing limited control of configurable stages of early 3D accelerators to very low-level programming interfaces exposing almost every aspect of the underlying graphics hardware. Next-generation APIs, Direct3D12 by Microsoft and Vulkan by Khronos…
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Introduction Dynamic resources is a convenient programming paradigm that is used to handle frequently changing resources in Direct3D11 API. For example, one way to render several models with different transformation matrices is to use dynamic constant buffer as in the following scenario: Bind…
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To take advantages of Direct3D12, Diligent Engine 2.0 implements a new binding model. The model is based on managing descriptor heaps and descriptor tables, new concepts introduced by Direct3D12, to allow application to change resources efficiently. To better understand the…
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Next generation graphics APIs like Direct3D12 and Vulkan significantly reduce CPU overhead by providing low-level hardware abstraction. Diligent Engine has been updated to take advantages of the new APIs. Alpha-release of version 2.0 supports Direct3D12 and is now available on GitHub. Several modifications to…
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The first release of Diligent Engine is now available! The engine is hosted on GitHub and is free for use in any application. The engine consists of the following components: Engine Core provides basic engine functionality. It implements engine interface on the platform-specific graphics API….
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