The DirectX 12 compiler DXC has received a PR about a month ago that adds template support to HLSL. So you can now do this: Which is great since that’s all going to happen at compile time and so the compiler will be able to unroll the loop correctly. This, coupled with UE4’s shader permutation […]
Computes everything in compute shaders on the GPU, including LODs and frustum culling. No GPU-CPU stalls anymore, it’s faster than HISM or ISM. Since around 4.22 Epic has exposed indirect rendering via the RHI mostly because of Niagara, but this is a custom rendering component so there’s no overhead and is therefore faster where it […]
Implemented merge instancing in UE4 to render different meshes in a single draw call. Large meshes are multiple instances. Can render an entire level in a single draw call. Based on an older SIGGRAPH paper by Emil Persson of Epic Games. All the colored parts in the video below are one single draw call!
The following requires a source-built Unreal Engine 4, launcher builds won’t work. Ever wanted to improve linking times by x10? What you need is incremental linking! Incremental linking as the name suggests only links files that have changed since the last time linking was done, which in my particular case means that 2766 source files […]
There comes a time in every self-respecting game developer’s life when they have to rebuild the entire engine along with the game they’re making. This usually happens when installing the latest version of Visual Studio that came with compiler improvements to MSVC. What you typically want to do is ensure that everything gets recompiled properly […]
Introduction If you’re as excited as me about signing into your Linux server from your Windows machine and completely ditching passwords and private keys stored on your computer in the process then this is the one and true guide for you!I’ve been wanting to do this ever since I’ve bought my first two Yubikey NEO […]
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