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In this opportunity, we are going to talk about the ambient occlusion pass. Its previous pass is GeometryPass and its next pass is EnvironmentLightPass. You can check BRE Architecture Series Part 7 – Geometry Pass and BRE Architecture Series Part 8 – Environment Light Pass. Before giving more details we are going to talk about ambient occlusion.
Continue reading “BRE Architecture Series Part 11 – Ambient Occlusion Pass”
In this opportunity, we are going to talk about tone mapping pass and post process pass. Before ToneMappingPass we have SkyBoxPass and just later is PostProcessPass that is the last one (at least at the time of writing this article). You can check BRE Architecture Series Part 9 – Skybox Pass. Before giving more details we are going to talk a little about tone mapping.
Continue reading “BRE Architecture Series Part 10 – Tone Mapping Pass and Post Process Pass”
In this opportunity, we are going to talk about the skybox pass. Its previous pass is EnvironmentLightPass and its next pass is ToneMappingPass. You can check BRE Architecture Series Part 8 – Environment Light Pass and BRE Architecture Series Part 10 – Tone Mapping Pass and Post Process Pass. Before giving more details we are going to talk a little about skybox mapping.
Continue reading “BRE Architecture Series Part 9 – Skybox Pass”
In this opportunity, we are going to talk about the environment light pass. Its previous pass is AmbientOcclusionPass and its next pass is SkyBoxPass. You can check BRE Architecture Series 11 – Ambient Occlusion Pass and BRE Architecture Series 9 – Skybox Pass. Before giving more details we are going to talk about environment light.
Continue reading “BRE Architecture Series Part 8 – Environment Light Pass”
In this opportunity, we are going to talk about the most complex pass in BRE (at the time of writing this article). It is the Geometry Pass. It is the first pass to be executed at the beginning of each frame and its next pass is the AmbientOcclusionPass.
Continue reading “BRE Architecture Series Part 7 – Geometry Pass”
In this opportunity, we are going to talk about one of the most important components in BRE: the RenderManager. It is a class that inherits from tbb::task and it runs in its own thread. It has several responsibilities:
Continue reading “BRE Architecture Series Part 6 – Render Manager and Command List Executor”
In this opportunity, we are going to talk about the scene generation process since it is loaded from a file stored on the disk until the data is ready and the command lists are recorded to feed the GPU.
Continue reading “BRE Architecture Series Part 5 – Scene Generation”
In this article, we are going to talk about the scene format that we use for BRE.
Continue reading “BRE Architecture Series Part 4 – Scene format”
In this opportunity, we are going to talk about the commonly denominated “utilities” or “helpers” of BRE.
To explain in more detail, we are going to divide this part per library and file.
In this opportunity, we are going to see the “managers” of BRE. The managers are static classes (i.e. all its methods and member variables are static). My intention was to have global access and do not need to create instances to use them. There is always a battle between using classes with global access vs restricting its scope the more possible and pass instead instances as function parameters. While there are certain cases that I consider this is correct, I prefer to avoid growing the number of parameters in functions. For example, if I have a function that loads scenes, for example, LoadScene() and that uses the Manager1, Manager2, and Manager3, in my opinion, it is better to have the following implementation
Continue reading “BRE Architecture Series Part 2 – Managers”
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