3D Graphics - APIs and Tools

Overview of graphics programming

https://renderdoc.org/blog/Graphics-in-Plain-Language/Part-1.html

• Deferred rendering
• Textures
• Geometry
• Reflections, cube maps, fisheye render
• Culling
• Mipmapping
• Object LOD
• Shadows
• Vertex shaders
• Animations, skeleton
• Animation of faces

Lessons for beginners

https://www.scratchapixel.com/index.html

• huge collection of lessons

Coordinate systems

https://30fps.net/xyz/

Lighting

https://www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/3d-basic-rendering/introduction-to-lighting/introduction-to-lighting.html

Shadows

https://30fps.net/pages/videogame-shadows/

Techniques

https://www.elopezr.com/the-rendering-of-middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor/

• Depth pre-pass and open worlds
• Reverse Z

https://pr0g.github.io/mathematics/graphics/2023/08/06/reverse-z.html

• Reverse Z

https://developer.nvidia.com/content/depth-precision-visualized

Overview of APIs

https://alain.xyz/blog/comparison-of-modern-graphics-apis

Modern GPU architecture

https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/gpu-computing

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/gpu-computing

Clean examples of modern GPU rendering

https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples/blob/master/metal/texcube-metal.c

FANTASTIC collection of shaders for planet-scale rendering

https://github.com/Prograda/Skybolt/tree/master/Assets/Core/Shaders

Water shader

https://www.jayconrod.com/posts/34/water-simulation-in-glsl

Shader editors

https://shadered.org/ https://www.shadertoy.com/

GPU-driven

Use of SSBOs

https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Shader_Storage_Buffer_Object

Profilers

Analysis using Renderdoc

https://blog.paavo.me/cities-skylines-2-performance/