The Forge Interactive Inc., the company behind The Forge became a Khronos Associate member.
- Ephemeris 2
- New features
- Add Earth radius: controls the radius of clouds' radius with scale factor. The clouds field will be flatter and the user can see further along the horizon if the radius increase
- Add noise flow: controls the direction and intensity of clouds' noise flow
- Add rotation: rotates clouds based on a certain pivot position.
- Add the second layer: it is possible to generate the second cloud layer which can act, independently
- Add FXAA
- Improvement
- Ray-marching: now, hard-edge artifact is significantly reduced
- Silver-lining: improved its quality
- God ray: improved its quality
- Performance: up to 25% performance increased
- New features
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Head over to Custom Middleware to check out the source code.
- macOS / iPad / iOS: ICB support for Metal renderer (draw; draw indexed; pipeline state switch with ICB; ICB optimization with BlitEncoder). The Visibility Buffer example now uses ICB features on MacOS
- reduced memory consumption for argument buffers in Metal
- fixes for Metal implementation of descriptor set
- minor fixes and optimizations in Metal renderer
- Due to bugs in the run-time for argument buffers we still can't run unit test 04, 06, and 10
The Visibility Buffer example runs now faster on macOS