ConfettiFX/The-Forge v1.16

Release 1.16 - September 21st, 2018 - Order-Independent Transparency Unit Test | Wave Intrinsics Unit Test | Updated Confetti Shader Translator

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• There is a new unit test that evaluates various Order-Independent Transparency methods:
  • Alpha blended transparency
  • Weighted blended Order Independent Transparency (Morgan McGuire)
  • Weighted blended Order Independent Transparency by Volition (GDC 2018 Talk)
  • Adaptive Order Independent Transparency with Raster Order Views (paper by Intel, supports DirectX 11, 12 only)
    There are more details and a comparison in the documentation folder of the unit test.

PC Windows 10 DirectX 12 GeForce 950 Driver 411.63 with a resolution of 1080p in full-screen:

Linux Vulkan 1.1.82.1 GeForce 1080 Driver 390.87 with a resolution of 1080p in full-screen:

MacBook Pro (Model A1706) with a resolution of 1080p in full-screen:

iPhone 7 with a resolution of 1334x750 in full-screen:

• There is a new Wave Intrinsics Unit test. It tests the new wave intrinsic instructions and makes sure they are support on PC Windows (DirectX 12 / Vulkan) for now. We are planning to add support on other platforms. On PC with DirectX it utilizes a "preview" integration of the DirectX Shader compiler. We were running into multiple bugs with DXC and decided to only use it for the new Shader model 6 shaders. So The Forge uses DXC for shaders that request shader_target_6_0 and FXC for everything below. The shader target can be specified during load time.

PC Windows 10 DirectX 12 GeForce 950 Driver 411.63 with a resolution of 1080p in full-screen:

• PC - fixed resizing ... should now work again with Alt+Enter ...
• Vulkan
• upgraded to the latest Vulkan Memory Allocator
• Enabled subgroup extensions for Wave Intrinsics Unit Test
• macOS / iOS
  • on-going work on improving input on macOS and iOS with imGUI
  • upgraded to macOS: 10.14 (18A389), XCode: 10 (10A254a)
• imGUI: improved implementation to make it a native citizen and expose the whole functionality. for tools, now there is more flexibility to create individual UIs for all apps. Check out the new screenshot below.

imGUI support:

• Linux - upgraded AMDGPU-Pro driver to 18.30-641594
• The Confetti Shader Translator received lots of bugs fixes and upgrades over the last six weeks. Head over to the URL and check it out. We have a large backlog with bugs and therefore it is still in alpha. New Features are:
  • include file support
  • preprocessor branching
  • switch statement
  • nested array
  • texture argments for functions
  • pur buffer (Buffer) type
  • Shader Model 6.0 (Wave)
    • SampleGrad()
    • GatherRed()
    • all()
    • gatherRed()
    • f32to16()
    • f16to32()
    • NonUniformResourceIndex()
    • determinate functions
  • GLSL
    • Shader Model 6.0 functions (Subgroup)
    • #extension system (Now, only necessary extensions are written, automatically)
    • textureGather()
    • textureGrad()
  • added loading progress bar
  • and others ...
    Here is a screenshot of the latest version.