Fshouldve seen vulkan
Khttps://www.monogame.net/ for 3D and 2D and https://github.com/KinsonDigital/Velaptor for 2D are great options.
Though of course it sounds like you are only doing 3D
Though of course it sounds like you are only doing 3D
GitHub
2D game and media application development framework - GitHub - KinsonDigital/Velaptor: 2D game and media application development framework
Kshameless plug LOL
Kmonogame is great though
FI mean it's low level in terms of math. Development shouldn't usually require a vast understanding of trigonometry etc. Then again I'm coming from this with the perspective of a software engineer and not a game developer
FAdorable mascot
Fyeah in game dev it is definetly used more
Kyeah...monogame has been around for a very long time
Kvelaptor is in preview and still has work to do. You can totally build games with it but there are some tools to create and make things a little easier and it is not fully cross platform yet
Kbut it is very active since I work on it full time
Ltheres surprisingly little in terms of stuff like "draw cube here" due to how 3d rendering works, even high level abstractions like monogame still require you to manage verts and indices for 3d
HIf you don't mind Javscript/Typescript, Three.JS and Babylon.JS are both pretty cool
HThey are really high level
Lyou dont need to truly understand the complexities of the math to use them to draw models and stuff (god knows i dont, i just know the bare minimum, and i can get by)
Lbut yeah for stuff that high level, JS libs, and large engines like unity are where youll find that
HIt's pretty rewarding to make your own cube close to the metal, though!
Kaye
Kand yeah if you want to just go draw a cube here youll probably need either unity, unreal, or some javascript thing
Kunity is honestly pretty good
Ki dont like unity at all but thats just me, objectively its pretty good yeah
Kjust really needs to get better GC imo
KI'm just really into the whole idea they sell as DOTS
KI mean I've been into that forever really, and their implementation is decent
Kso yeah, not perfect, but overall an impressive and pretty well working product
HI wonder if their using Mesh shaders under the hood?
Aunlikely, unity is still rather tied to direct3d 11
Athey do have vulkan implemented but last time i checked it doesn't work that well
Amaybe things have changed though
KThere's graphics pipelines now which I think sometimes*** use vulkan
Kbut really for their purposes it doesn't matter
HI'm all about these Mesh shaders. It's my only render pipeline, one for everything.
KArguably vulkan could widen device support and unlock many cool technologies / features, but practically they likely have a huge number of existing DX focused & optimized content, which would largely go to waste
HUnity doesn't do DX12 yet?
Adx11 the last time i used it
Atheir main backends are still dx11 and opengl
Hgotcha
K
KThey support DX11 & 12, Vulkan, and some version of GL
Athey do now support dx12? does it work like at all lmfao
KOpenGL is likely mostly geared towards their web support & maybe some mobile. I doubt that it's oriented towards desktop
Kyeah
KThere should be little to no differences between platforms. There are some authoring differences (https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-PlatformDifferences.html) of course
Aseems like they have made some changes then
last time i checked dx12 wasn't supported at all and vulkan implementation barely worked
last time i checked dx12 wasn't supported at all and vulkan implementation barely worked
Athat was a couple years ago now though
Tvzeroupper is used for basically any floating-point codeit zeros the upper 128-bits of all SIMD registers, and is functionally has no execution cost on modern processors as it all happens as part of decode in the register renamer
it's required to avoid a perf pessimization that happens when mixing "legacy encoded" and "vex encoded" SIMD instructions, as the legacy encoded have a merge behavior that must preserve the upper 128-bit results
Tthis ends up coming up when mixing R2R/Crossgen compiled methods or interop code with regular jitted managed code
T(that perf pessimization is that every instruction could execute up to 10x slower on some hardware)
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Cwait for webgl first day.......
Lnot possible in silk right now
