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bazhenovc / the_sane_rendering_manifesto.md
Last active July 30, 2026 14:29
The Sane Rendering Manifesto

The Sane Rendering Manifesto

The goal of this manifesto is to provide an easy to follow and reasonable rules that realtime and video game renderers can follow.

These rules highly prioritize image clarity/stability and pleasant gameplay experience over photorealism and excess graphics fidelity.

Keep in mind that shipping a game has priority over everything else and it is allowed to break the rules of the manifesto when there are no other good options in order to ship the game.

Do not use dynamic resolution.

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h3r2tic / raymarch.hlsl
Last active August 5, 2026 11:41
Depth buffer raymarching for contact shadows, SSGI, SSR, etc.
// Copyright (c) 2023 Tomasz Stachowiak
//
// This contribution is dual licensed under EITHER OF
//
// Apache License, Version 2.0, (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
// MIT license (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
//
// at your option.
#include "/inc/frame_constants.hlsl"
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sebbbi / SinglePassMipPyramid.hlsl
Last active October 25, 2025 01:10
Single pass globallycoherent mip pyramid generation
// NOTE: Must bind 8x single mip RWTexture views, because HLSL doesn't have .mips member for RWTexture2D. (SRVs only have .mips member)
// NOTE: globallycoherent attribute is needed. Without it writes aren't guaranteed to be seen by other groups
globallycoherent RWTexture2D<float> MipTextures[8];
RWTexture2D<uint> Counters[8];
groupshared uint CounterReturnLDS;
[numthreads(16, 16, 1)]
void GenerateMipPyramid(uint3 Tid : SV_DispatchThreadID, uint3 Group : SV_GroupId, uint Gix : SV_GroupIndex)
{
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