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License.

Computer Graphics Programming Resources

List of freely available resources to study computer graphics programming.

Basic Path

Creative Coding for Beginners [video] (new to programming)
Learn C++ [book]
Essence of Linear Algebra [video] [article]
3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development [book]
How do Video Game Graphics Work? [video]

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
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
2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES

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)

	//
	// 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); }

	auto world = GetWorld();
	if(world == nullptr)
	return;

	auto viewLocations = world->ViewLocationsRenderedLastFrame;
	if(viewLocations.Num() == 0)
	return;

	FVector camLocation = viewLocations[0];

	// 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,

	// 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;

	// 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 )
	};

	class InitializerSharedPtr
	{
	protected:
	struct PrivateStruct
	{
	explicit PrivateStruct( int Irrelevant )
	{ }
	};

	public: