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Computer Graphics Programming Resources

List of freely available resources to study computer graphics programming.

Table of Contents

• Basic Path
• Getting Started
• C++
• Mathematics
• Overview

raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

WARNING: Article moved to separate repo to allow users contributions: https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like [Unreal](https:

silvesthu

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

• 2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
• 2013 - Performance Optimization Guidelines and the GPU Architecture behind them
• 2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
• 2015 - Render Hell 2.0
• 2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
• 2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
• 2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon

syoyo

//
// C++ implementaion of "A simple method to construct isotropic quasirandom blue
// noise point sequences"
//
// http://extremelearning.com.au/a-simple-method-to-construct-isotropic-quasirandom-blue-noise-point-sequences/
//

// Assume 0 <= x
static double myfmod(double x) { return x - std::floor(x); }

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 auto world = GetWorld();
 if(world == nullptr)
      return;
 
 auto viewLocations = world->ViewLocationsRenderedLastFrame;
 if(viewLocations.Num() == 0)
      return;
 
 FVector camLocation = viewLocations[0];

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The Ol' #pragma Message

For particularly necessary to-do reminders, the JM_TODO macro below will print to the build console (and on the warning/error list) as a trivial warning -- so it won't interfere with builds that treat warnings as errrors. Then you can just double-click it and jump to that spot.

The Code

#define JM_PRAGMA_STRING2(x) #x
#define JM_PRAGMA_STRING(x) JM_PRAGMA_STRING2(x)

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// Comments are left by me, not from the code.

// Because why not have a default set or make the method abstract or, really, anything but this. Luckily no one would ever
// think to use ::GetMaxSpeed as a divisor or anything.
inline float UMovementComponent::GetMaxSpeed() const
{
	return 0.f;
}

// FUN FACT: UMovementComponent defines a plethora of methods for managing the maximum speed of a component. It does not,

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// NOTE: This does not result in the accessors being available for blueprint-use as they're not UFUNCTIONs.

UCLASS( )
class URawr : public UObject
{
	GENERATED_CLASS( )

protected:
	float RawrValue;
		

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// Generally, developers in UE4 tend towards the following convention for enumerations:
UENUM( BlueprintType )
enum class ENoiseGeneratorCellularType : uint8
{
	NGCT_Natural			UMETA( DisplayName = "Natural" ),
	NGCT_Euclidean			UMETA( DisplayName = "Euclidean" ),
	NGCT_Manhattan			UMETA( DisplayName = "Manhattan" ),

	NGCT_Max			UMETA( Hidden )
};