- macOS / iOS - we are now supporting Metal 2.2 on those platforms. The macOS version of the Visibility Buffer now uses primitive_id argument that allows to use indexed geometry similar to the Vulkan and DirectX 12 versions. There is a significant increase in performance and reduction in memory consumption
- Debug labels for buffers and textures now present in frame captures;
- cmdSynchronizeResources for MacOS and iOS;
- Minor fixes in GPU synchronization with memory barriers
- Minor fixes in ArgumentBuffers implementation
Please note that we use the early beta system and XCode versions for development. So there might some instabilities.
Here is a screenshot: Macbook Pro 2017 with Radeon Pro 560 3360x2100 resolution
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Android - we increased the number of unit tests support. With this release we additionally support on the devices mentioned below:
- 06_MaterialPlayground
- 18_Playback
- 19_Blending
- 20_JoinAttachment
- 21_PartialBlending
- 22_AdditiveBlending
- 23_BakedPhysics
- 24_MultiThread
- 25_Skinning
- 26_Audio
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Vulkan:
- Updated volk Metaloader for Vulkan to latest
- The Forge supports now as the min spec for the Vulkan SDK 1.1.82.0 and as the max spec is 1.1.101.0
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Discord: we offer now also support through a discord channel. Sign up here:
Join the Discord channel at https://discord.gg/hJS54bz
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User Group Meetings - there will be a user group meeting during GDC. In case you want to organize a user group meeting in your country / town at any other point in time, we would like to support this. We could send an engineer for a talk.
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Support for Education - in case your School / College / University uses The Forge for education, we would like to support this as well. We could send an engineer or help create material. So far the following schools use The Forge for teaching:
Breda University of Applied Sciences
Contact:
Jeremiah van Oosten
Monseigneur Hopmansstraat 1
4817 JT Breda
Contact:
Andrew Hogue
Ontario Tech University
SIRC 4th floor
2000 Simcoe St N
Oshawa, ON, L1H 7K4
- Writing Guidelines - For contributions to The Forge we apply the following writing guidelines:
- We limit now all code to C++ 11 by setting the Clang and other compiler flags
- We follow the [Orthodox C++ guidelines] (https://gist.github.com/bkaradzic/2e39896bc7d8c34e042b) minus C++ 14 support (see above)