Monthly Archives: November 2008

Debugging shaders: Artifacts grouped into quads

Posted on 29.11.2008 by Anteru

If you’re debugging a shader, and the wrong pixels come grouped into (screen-aligned) 2×2 blocks, don’t look too long at the code at hand — it might be that your gradients are wrong. Recently, I had a shader aliasing problem, … Continue reading →

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Got an answer from … John Carmack! Woho!

Posted on 26.11.2008 by Anteru

Well, I just got an answer on a question about virtual texture mapping from John Carmack himself! Woho! I’ll never remove it from my inbox again A great finish for a quite nice day.

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War story: Cache if it you can

Posted on 22.11.2008 by Anteru

The first post in what I hope becomes a series of war stories, right from the trenches. If you have some piece of code which pops up at the top of your profiler output, and you’re about to show off … Continue reading →

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C++ tricks, #6: Explicit template instantiation

Posted on 19.11.2008 by Anteru

Today we take a look at explicit template instantiations (yet another post which is a direct result of user feedback ). With explicit template instantiations, you can define a template and instantiate it in a DLL, so clients don’t even … Continue reading →

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