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New GPU Gems #2 Chapters Online

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/08/20 at 10:21

Categories: Books, Game Development, Microsoft DirectX, OpenGL Tags: 3d graphics, Books, game development, gamedev, gpu gems 2, gpu programming, Microsoft DirectX, opengl, shader

HYDRA Engine – Multi-GPU Technology

3 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/08/19 at 16:22

Categories: Graphics Cards, Hardware Tags: chip, crossfire, directx, Equalizer, gpu scaling, Hardware, HYDRA engine, Lucid, LucidLogix, Microsoft DirectX, parallel rendering, sli, software

NVIDIA SDK 10.5: New OpenGL and Direct3D Samples

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/08/18 at 09:52

Categories: Game Development, Microsoft DirectX, OpenGL, SDK Tags: 3d graphics programming, game development, gamedev, geforce 8 series, instancing, Microsoft DirectX, nvidia sdk, opengl, screen-space ambient occlusion, ssao

Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion demo

New Features of DirectX 11 Explaned

1 comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/08/17 at 22:56

Categories: Game Development, Microsoft DirectX, Programming Tags: 3d graphics programming, bc6, bc7, directx 11, domain shader, game development, gamedev, hull shader, Microsoft DirectX, multithreaded rendering, shader model 5.0, tessellator, texture compression

Interior mapping Direct3D 10.1 Demo

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/08/10 at 11:39

Categories: Microsoft DirectX, Programming Tags: 3d graphics programming, demo, directx 10.1, game development, interior mapping, Microsoft DirectX, pixel shader, real time shader

Humus has released a new Direct3D demo. Interior mapping is a technique that renders the interior of buildings without requiring additional geometry. Everything is done in the pixel shader. The advantage is that when you’re rendering large cities you can draw all those buildings as simple boxes. This demo requires DirectX 10.1 and Windows Vista SP1.

Source Code and binaries: Interior Mapping Demo

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Update – 2008.08.17
Demo has been updated with around 80% of performance boost.

NVIDIA Gamefest Presentation Slides Now Online

1 comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/08/07 at 09:41

Categories: Game Development, Microsoft DirectX Tags: 3d graphics programming, directx 11, displaced subdivision surface, game development, game technology, gamedev, gamefest, Microsoft DirectX, tesselation

3D Graphics Programming with Intel’s Larrabee

1 comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/08/06 at 09:52

Categories: Hardware, Microsoft DirectX, OpenGL, Programming Tags: 3d graphics programming, architecture, c++, console, intel, larrabee, Microsoft DirectX, opengl, software renderer, video game

NeoAxis Engine 0.57

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/08/01 at 17:22

Categories: 3D Engines, SDK Tags: 3d engine, game development, graphics programming, Microsoft DirectX, NeoAxis, ogre, ogre 3d, opengl, physx

FX Composer 2.5 Available!

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/07/03 at 15:55

Categories: 3D, Microsoft DirectX, OpenGL, Programming Tags: development, fx composer, fxc, glsl, graphics programming, hlsl, Microsoft DirectX, opengl, shader

FX Composer 2.5, the latest version of NVIDIA’s powerful shader development environment, has been released.

FX Composer supports DirectX, OpenGL, HLSL, Collada FX, and CgFX, as well as the .fbx, .x, .3ds, .obj, and .dae file formats for importing geometry.

Version 2.5 adds:
* DirectX 10 support, including geometry shaders and stream out
* Particle Systems
* Visual Styles
* Major User Interface Improvements
* Remote Control over TCP/IP
* Support for the NVIDIA Shader Debugger
* New Sample Projects

You can download FXC HERE – exe (221Mb).

NVIDIA PerfHUD 6.0 Final Release Now Available!

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/06/27 at 09:08

Categories: 3D, Game Development, Microsoft DirectX Tags: game development, gamedev, graphics programming, Microsoft DirectX, perfhud, performance analysis

NVIDIA PerfHUD is a powerful real-time performance analysis tool for Direct3D applications, and it is widely used by the world’s best game developers.

More info at NVIDIA PerfHUD homepage

PerfKit 6.0 New Feature Highlights:
* No longer requires an instrumented driver on Vista!
* Supports GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs
* SLI Support
* Texture Visualization and Overrides
* API Call List
* Dependency View
* New CPU/GPU Timing graph

NVIDIA ShaderPerf 2

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/06/19 at 08:45

Categories: Microsoft DirectX, OpenGL, Programming Tags: cg, fragment program, game development, gamedev, glsl, graphics programming, hlsl, Microsoft DirectX, pixel shader, profiling, shaderperf, vertex program, vertex shader

NVIDIA ShaderPerf is a command-line shader profiling utility and C API that reports detailed shader performance metrics for a wide range of GPUs.

ShaderPerf wokrs with GLSL vertex and fragment programs, HLSL vertex and pixel shaders and Cg shaders.

ShaderPerf 2.0 includes several new features:
* GeForce 8 series support
* Pixel Shader Differencing
* Vertex Shader Analysis

ShaderPerf outputs the following for any shader that you analyze:
* Cycle count
* Register usage
* Driver-optimized shader instruction list
* Vertex and pixel throughput estimates

More information and download HERE.