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Grpahic hardwares [closed]
Which vendor provides better GPGPU. my requirements are confined to rendering utilising the GPU for BSDF building for e.g. Intel started providing Ivy Bridge chipset GPU, which are comparably fast to ...
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Game window systems and internal frames
I don't know if this is a valid question, but: What kind of window manager do games use which have internal frames (Frames inside frames)? Does this differ between the programming languages (Are e.g. ...
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Drawing graphics in Java game
I am quite new to game development, so here is a question (maybe a stupid one):
In my sidescroller i have a bunch of different graphics objects that i need to draw (player, background tiles, ...
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Material vs Material Pass
I am trying to figure out the difference between a "Material" and a "Material Pass" (in theory). Is it basically that a Material will have multiple "Material Pass"'es, along with a name. Then the ...
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Are there any issues with not drawing to all render targets when using MRT?
Lets say I set 2 render targets:
device.SetRenderTargets(color, depth);
And then half my draw code only outputs color and not depth. This works fine on the PC and produces the expected results ...
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Achieving certain rendering styles
I'm trying to assess the difficulty of creating a rendering style that is more like the game Okami and the Quake mods (as shown on this page...search for 'okami','quake npr'). Here's a better page ...
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3D camera implementation
I've been bashing my head against the concept of a 'camera' for my 3D world for some time now, and I'm not sure I'm doing this right anymore. Maybe I've been working on this for too long and have ...
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LOD in modern games
I'm currently working on my master's thesis about LOD and mesh simplification, and I've been reading many academic papers and articles about the subject. However, I can't find enough information about ...
