alansguigna
How good is AI at bringing old code into the 21st century? I’ve undertaken a small project to refactor code from the book Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, by Andre Lamothe, to see how easy it might be to modernize. First, some background: back in 2002, I was a General Manager at the...
Panagiotis Christopoulos Charitos
TL;DR: If using per-primitive in/out in mesh shaders in Vulkan and in HLSL/DXC you need to manually decorate variables and struct members using SPIR-V intrinsics. See how at the bottom. This is going to be a quick post to raise awareness to a difficult to track bug with mesh shaders in Vulkan...
alansguigna
I got the book Game Engine Architecture by Jason Gregory for Christmas. If you’re a technical geek, even if you’re not really into game design, this book is a must-have. At 1,200 pages, this is a massive tome. It must be Jason Gregory’s “Magnum Opus”. I was delighted to see that, aside from the...
alansguigna
What a pain! I’ve upgraded Visual Studio 2019 to Version 16.8.3, and it took me a while to find out that’s unveiled a bug in the code. As you’ve seen from my prior blogs, Explorations in 3D Graphics and DirectX 12: Episode 1 and Explorations in 3D Graphics and DirectX 1w Episode 2: Video of...