NVIDIA GameWorks OpenGL Samples

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NVIDIA GameWorks™ OpenGL Samples

New samples in 2.0:

• Blended Antialiasing Sample
• Cascaded Shadow Mapping Sample
• Conservative Rasterization Sample
• Normal-Blended Decal Sample
• Weighted, Blended, Order-independent Transparency Sample

NEW:Blended AA

• Category: Performance, Visuals

This sample implements a two-pass additive blending anti-aliasing technique using Target-Independent Rasterization (TIR), which should give comparable results to MSAA with a reduced memory footprint.

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NEW:Cascaded Shadow Mapping

• Category: Performance, Visuals

This sample implements the cascaded shadow mapping technique using Viewport Multicast and Fast Geometry Shader.

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NEW:Conservative Rasterization

• Category: Visuals

This sample demonstrates the pixel-level effect of enabling the conservative rasterization feature supported in OpenGL. It allows applications to shade every pixel whose area is touched by a fragment, rather than only those touching specific samples.

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NEW:Normal-blended Decal

• Category: Performance, Visuals

The Normal Blended Decal Sample demonstrates how to use the OpenGL PSI(Pixel Shader Interlock) feature to blend normals when drawing screen-space decals. This sample compares the performance of PSI with glMemoryBarrier.

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NEW:Weighted, Blended Order-independent Transparency

• Category: Performance, Visuals

Weighted Blended OIT Sample demonstrates how plausible OIT (Order Independent Transparency) can be rendered in a single geometry pass without any depth sorting, as described in [McGuire and Bavoil 2013]. The idea is to use additive blending to compute a weighted average of the translucent colors with a weighting function that falls off as the linear depth increases. This sample compares the quality and performance of Weighted Blended OIT with Depth Peeling.

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https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworks-opengl-samples

 

[Deleted member 13524]

Do you really need to spam open up a new thread for each and every Gameworks-related demo/tech/news that come out?

I get that these may be interesting, but the Gameworks stuff could be done as updates to a single, general thread.

 

[Kaarlisk]

Then every kind of demo/tech stuff has to go into a single huge thread. Does not seem to be the policy yet.

 

[Deleted member 13524]

Then every kind of demo/tech stuff has to go into a single huge thread.

No, only Gameworks-related stuff would go into a single and rather small thread with a little over a dozen posts.

 

[silent_guy]

I think it's great that somebody puts this stuff in here, as I don't have the time or motivation to look for it myself. Whether it's a new thread or not: who cares...