GPU Pro 360 Guide to 3D Engine Design

Wolfgang Engel

• Verlag: A K Peters/CRC Press
• Jahr: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781351172462
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Informatica
• Thema: Grafica per computer

Wolfgang Engel's GPU Pro 360 Guide to 3D Engine Design gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous seven GPU Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology that covers the design of a 3D engine. This volume is complete with articles by leading programmers that focus on various aspects of 3D engine design such as quality and optimization as well as high-level architecture. GPU Pro 360 Guide to 3D Engine Design is comprised of ready-to-use ideas and efficient procedures that can help solve many computer graphics programming challenges that may arise.

Key Features:

• Presents tips & tricks on real-time rendering of special effects and visualization data on common consumer software platforms such as PCs, video consoles, mobile devices

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• Covers specific challenges involved in creating games on various platforms

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• Explores the latest developments in rapidly evolving field of real-time rendering

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• Takes practical approach that helps graphics programmers solve their daily challenges

Contents

Introduction

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1 Multi-Fragment Effects on the GPU Using Bucket Sort

Meng-Cheng Huang, Fang Liu, Xue-Hui Liu and En-Hua Wu

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Design of Bucket Array

1.3 The Algorithm

1.4 Multi-Pass Approach

1.5 The Adaptive Scheme

1.6 Applications

1.7 Conclusions

Bibliography

2 Parallelized Light Pre-Pass Rendering with the Cell Broadband Engine

Steven Tovey and Stephen McAuley

2.1Introduction

2.2 Light Pre-Pass Rendering

2.3 The PLAYSTATION3 and the CBE

2.4 GPU/SPE Synchronization

2.5 The Pre-Pass

2.6 The Lighting SPE Program

2.7 The Main Pass

2.8 Conclusion

2.9 Further Work

2.10 Acknowledgements

Bibliography

3 Practical, Dynamic Visibility for Games

Stephen Hill and Daniel Collin

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Surveying the Field

3.3 Query Quandaries

3.4 Wish List

3.5 Conviction Solution

3.6 Battlefield Solution

3.7 Future Development

3.8 Conclusion

3.9 Acknowledgements

Bibliography

4 Shader Amortization Using Pixel Quad Message Passing

Eric Penner

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Background and Related Work

4.3 Pixel Derivatives and Pixel Quads

4.4 Pixel Quad Message Passing

4.5 PQA Initialization

4.6 Limitations of PQA

4.7 Cross Bilateral Sampling

4.8 Convolution and Blurring

4.9 Percentage Closer Filtering

4.10 Discussion

4.11 Appendix A: Hardware Support

Bibliography

5 A Rendering Pipeline for Real-Time Crowds

Benjamín Hernández and Isaac Rudomin

5.1 System Overview

5.2 Populating the Virtual Environment and Behavior

5.3 View-Frustum Culling

5.4 Level of Detail Sorting

5.5 Animation and Draw Instanced

5.6 Results

5.7 Conclusions and Future Work

5.8 Acknowledgements

Bibliography

6 Z³ Culling

Pascal Gautron, Jean-Eudes Marvie and Gael Sourimant

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Principle

6.3 Algorithm

6.4 Implementation

6.5 Performance Analysis

6.6 Conclusion

Bibliography

7 A Quaternion-Based Rendering Pipeline

Dzmitry Malyshau

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Spatial Data

7.3 Handedness Bit

7.4 Facts about Quaternions

7.5 Tangent Space

7.6 Interpolation Problem with Quaternions

7.7 KRI Engine: An Example Application

7.8 Conclusion

Bibliography

8 Implementing a Directionally Adaptive Edge AA Filter Using DirectX 11

Matthew Johnson

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Implementation

8.3 Conclusion

8.4 Appendix

Bibliography

9 Designing a Data-Driven Renderer

Donald Revie

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Problem Analysis

9.3 Solution Development

9.4 Representational Objects

9.5 Pipeline Objects

9.6 Frame Graph

9.7 Case Study: Praetorian Tech

9.8 Further Work and Considerations

9.9 Conclusion

9.10 Acknowledgements

Bibliography

10 An Aspect-Based Engine Architecture

Donald Revie

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Rationale

10.3 Engine Core

10.4 Aspects

10.5 Common Aspects

10.6 Implementation

10.7 Aspect Interactions

10.8 Praetorian: The Brief History of Aspects

10.9 Analysis

10.10 Conclusion

10.11 Acknowledgements

Bibliography

11 Kinect Programming with Direct3D 11

Jason Zink

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Meet the Kinect

11.3 Mathematics of the Kinect

11.4 Programming with the Kinect SDK

11.5 Applications of the Kinect

11.6 Conclusion

Bibliography

12 A Pipeline for Authored Structural Damage

Homam Bahnassi and Wessam Bahnassi

12.1 Introduction

12.2 The Addressed Problem

12.3 Challenges and Previous Work

12.4 Implementation Description and Details

12.5 Level of Detail

12.6 Discussion

12.7 Conclusion

12.8 Acknowledgements

Bibliography

13 Quaternions Revisited

Peter Sikachev, Vladimir Egorov and Sergey Makeev

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Quaternion Properties Overview

13.3 Quaternion Use Cases

13.4 Normal Mapping

13.5 Generic Transforms and Instancing

13.6 Skinning

13.7 Morph Targets

13.8 Quaternion Format

13.9 Comparison

13.10 Conclusion

13.11 Acknowledgements

Bibliography

14 glTF: Designing an Open-Standard Runtime Asset Format

Fabrice Robinet, Rémi Arnaud, Tony Parisi and Patrick Cozzi

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Motivation

14.3 Goals

14.4 Birds-Eye View

14.5 Integration of Buffer and Buffer View

14.6 Code Flow for Rendering Meshes

14.7 From Materials to Shaders

14.8 Animation

14.9 Content Pipeline

14.10 Future Work

14.11 Acknowledgements

Bibliography

15 Managing Transformations in Hierarchy

Bartosz Chodorowski and Wojciech Sterna

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Theory

15.3 Implementation

15.4 Conclusions

Bibliography

16 Block-Wise Linear Binary Grids for Fast Ray-Casting Operations

Holger Gruen

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Overview

16.3 Block-Wise Linear Memory Layout

16.4 Rendering Block-Wise Linear Binary Voxel Grids

16.5 Casting Rays through a Block-Wise Linear Grid

16.6 Detecting Occlusions during Indirect Light Gathering

16.7 Results

16.8 Future Work

16.9 External References

Bibliography

17 Semantic-Based Shader Generation Using Shader Shaker

Michael Delva, Julien Hamaide and Ramses Ladlani

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Previous Work

17.3 Definitions

17.4 Overview

17.5 Algorithm Explanation

17.6 Error Reporting

17.7 Usage Discussions

17.8 What’s Next

17.9 Conclusion

Bibliography

18 ANGLE: Bringing OpenGL ES to the Desktop

Shannon Woods, Nicolas Capens, Jamie Madill and Geoff Lang

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Direct3D 11

18.3 Shader Translation

18.4 Implementing ES3 on Feature Level 10

18.5 Future Directions: Moving to New Platforms

18.6 Recommended Practices

Bibliography

19 Interactive Cinematic Particles

Homam Bahnassi and Wessam Bahnassi

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Background

19.3 Challenges and Previous Work

19.4 Interactive Cinematic Particles (ICP) System Outline

19.5 Data Authoring Workflow

19.6 Offline Build Process

19.7 Runtime Execution

19.8 Additional Notes

19.9 Conclusion

19.10 Acknowledgements

Bibliography

20 Real-Time BC6H Compression on GPU

Krzysztof Narkowicz

20.1 Introduction

20.2 BC6H Details

20.3 Compression Algorithm

20.4 Results

20.5 Possible Extensions

20.6 Conclusion

20.7 Acknowledgements

Bibliography

21 A 3D Visualization Tool Used for Test Automation in the Forza Series

Gustavo Bastos Nunes

21.1 Introduction

21.2 Collision Mesh Issues

21.3 Detecting the Issues

21.4 Visualization

21.5 Navigation

21.6 Workflow

21.7 Conclusion

21.8 Acknowledgements

Bibliography

22 Semi-Static Load Balancing for Low-Latency Ray Tracing on Heterogeneous Multiple GPUs

Takahiro Harada

22.1 Introduction

22.2 Load Balancing Methods

22.3 Semi-Static Load Balancing

22.4 Results and Discussion

22.5 Acknowledgements

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Introduction

This book targets the design of a renderer. A renderer is a very complex software module that requires attention to a lot of details. The requirements and attention also vary greatly on different hardware platforms. The chapters here cover various aspects of engine design, such as quality and optimization, in addition to high-level architecture.

The chapter “Multi-Fragment Effects on the GPU Using Bucket Sort” covers a technique on how to render order-independent transparency by utilizing a bucket sort system. Tr...