Excited to get an update on AMD's FSR3 gpuopen.com/fsr3-announce/ DLSS is close to magic but unavailable on consoles and even older NV cards. Having a competitive, fully open alternative that runs on a wide range of hardware removes a huge feature hole for multiplatform projects.

Of all the months, #Blocktober has got to be my favourite one.

w00t?? Did a certain popular YouTube VFX channel just receive a boatload of cash from AI makers to convince the general public that lifeless plastic dolls are now what photorealism in games looks like?

dear imgui 1.90 released! github.com/ocornut/imgui/… resizable child windows, angled table headers, hundreds other fixes & improvements for separators, tooltips, drag and drop, tables, docking, menus, inputtext, fonts, backends, multiselect (wip branch), etc. (RT appreciated 🙏)

- "I want Swedish culture!" - "We have Swedish culture at home!" Swedish culture at home:

Is there a 3d debug shapes drawing library with backend implementations for all the usual gfx api suspects out there somewhere? (c/c++) Basically looking for the ImGui of 3d debug shapes drawing.

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A two hour long paid, online course promising to teach "all I know about <subject A>" is not the flex you might think it is dear would-be teacher.

Great news for #gamedevs! We’re releasing a new blog post series which takes a deep-dive into mesh shaders 🤿 The first post is available now and details the evolution from vertex shader-based to mesh shader-based pipelines. gpuopen.com/learn/mesh-sha…

NGL, Fast X sounds like something Elon would come up with (and probably also charge a premium for).

AMD fighting the good fight with another great article.

“Low-level thinking in high-level shading languages” is in my top 3 most influential presentations, one that changed the way I think about shader programming. 2023 was the 10th anniversary so I tried a quick refresh and discussed developments since. interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2023/12/29/low…

Looking for an extremely fast hash table? Check out Excalibur hash. I wrote this hash table about two years ago but only now found some time to write a proper description and benchmark results 😀 github.com/SergeyMakeev/E…

dear imgui 1.90.1 released github.com/ocornut/imgui/… 30+ fixes/improvements & new debug break tools

If you want to learn more about the GPU-driven rendering tech that we built for #AlanWake2 there's now a video recording of the talk that I did earlier this year at Digital Dragons: youtu.be/EtX7WnFhxtQ?si…

This article on virtual shadow maps is insanely detailed (and good). I'm not sure how similar the implementations are, but this technique is also used in Unreal Engine. ktstephano.github.io/rendering/stra…

This is great news!

That's eh.. quite the upswing in CPU feature support there, Steamworks