Introduction

Explanation and examples of modern rendering techniques commonly used for game engines.

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About

This website will show and explain multiple usages of the low-level rendering library The Forge. It works in conjunction with the repository the-forge-samples which implements said tutorials.

📖 Sources

Websites

Name	Founder(s)	Description
WebGL Fundamentals	-	Various tutorial on rendering techniques for WebGL 1 & 2
Learn OpenGL	Joey de Vries	Various tutorial on rendering techniques for OpenGL
Vulkan Tutorial	Alexander Overvoorde	A step-by-step tutorial to use Vulkan
Advances in Real Time rendering	-	Slides and Videos from SigGraph conferences
Scratch A Pixel	-	Tutorial on Computer Graphics theory

Blogs

Name	Founder(s)	Description
Wicked Engine Dev Blog	János Turánszki	Dev blog of his game engine
Our Machinery Dev Blog	-	Dev blog of their game engine
3D Game engine programming	Robert Grigg	Various articles related to DirectX
The Ryg blog	Fabian Giesen	In depth articles about GPU structures. Known for his Trip trough the graphic pipeline series
Adrian Courrèges blog	Adrian Courrèges	Well known for his Graphics Study series of AAA games.
Alain Gavan blog	Alain Gavan	Different articles on graphic programming
Humus Name	Emil Persson	Blog of a Senior Graphics Engineer at Epic Games
Repi blog	Johan Andersson	Graphics programmer at Dice
Mirror2Mask	Natalya Tatarchuk	Lead and engineering architect at Bungie
ID software tiago	Tiago Sousa	Lead rendering programmer at ID Software
PataBlog	-	Rendering artisan on Dishonored 2
Create the matrix	Anoop Ravi Thomas	Senior Graphics Programmer at Rockstar San Diego
Game Art Tricks	Simon Schreibt	VFX artist at Wild Sheep Studio in Montpellier France

Articles

Name	Author	Description
How Unreal renders a frame	Kostas Anagnostou
Data driven rendering pipeline	Gabriel Sassone

Videos

Youtube channels

Name	Author	Description
SketchPunkLabs - Learn WebGL	-	Various tutorials on rendering techniques with WebGL
GDC Vault	-	Many conferences from professionals in the game industry
The Cherno	-	Various videos on programming and graphics programming with content on OpenGL
ChiliTomatoNoodle	-	Various videos on programming and graphics programming with content on DirectX

On architecture

Name	Description	Analysis
GDC - Multithreading Destiny	GDC 2015 talk by Barry Genova from Bungie	Destiny datum array accessed with handles, so there is no copy (maybe only on the rendering side, because it is not in sync with the simulation). Check at 29 min Read and writes are declared with a policy, and a check is done between the jobs to check if the policies are compatible before the task starts. If it is not, there is an assert and you need to review the way it is structured : - Start after the end of the overlap (dependency) - Copy data / cache data - Queue messages so that the overlapping action is taken latter - Change algorithm Those checks are built-out in release. They call it the “Execution Environment”

API Code samples

Name	Description
Sacha Willem’s Vulkan	Various rendering techniques with the Vulkan API
DirectX graphics samples	Microsoft official repository for code samples in DirectX 12
Vulkan Samples	Khronos official repository for code samples in Vulkan

Renderers

This Gist offers multiple links related to renderers

Logo	Name	Description
	Diligent Engine
	Panda3D
	Google Filament
	The Forge
	Unity graphics package

Open-source Game engines

Logo	Name	Description
	Unreal Engine 4
	Cry Engine
	Godot
	Stride
	NeoAxis Engine
	Heaps Haxe engine
	Flax Engine
	Wicked Engine

Books

Name	Description	Illustration
Game Engine Architecture	A famous book by Jason Gregory, a Naughty Dog engineer
Real Time Rendering	Famous book on rendering techniques
Game Programming Gems Series	Mark DeLoura compilation of articles by other developers
GPU Gems Series	Compilation of various articles by developers
GPU Pro Series	Wolfgang Engel compilation of articles by other developers
Game Engine Gems Series	Compilation of articles by developers
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics	A broad book explaining computer graphics from scratch
Physically Based Rendering	Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys revolutionary book on materials