Release 1.56 - April 4th, 2024 I3D | Warzone Mobile | Visibility Buffer | Aura on macOS | Ephemeris on Switch | GPU breadcrumbs | Swappy in Android | Screen-space Shadows | Metal Debug Markers improved
I3D
We are sponsoring I3D again. Come by and say hi! We also will be giving a talk on the new development around Triangle Visibility Buffer.
Warzone Mobile launched
We work on Warzone Mobile since August 2020. The game launched on March 21, 2024.
Visibility Buffer
We removed CPU cluster culling and simplified the animation data usage. Now traingle filtering only takes one dispatch each frame again.
Swappy frame pacer is now vailable in Android/Vulkan
We integrated the Swappy frame pacer into the Android / Vulkan eco system.
GPUCfg system improved with more ids and less string compares
we did another pass on the GPUCfg system and now we can generate the vendor Ids and model Ids with a python script to keep the *_gpu.data list easily up to date for each platform.
We removed most of the name comparisons and replaced them with the id comparisons which should speed up parsing time and is more specific.
Screen-Space Shadows in UT9
We added to the number of shadow approaches in that unit test screen-space shadows. These are complementary to regular shadow mapping and add more detail. We also fixed a number of inconsistencies with the other shadow map approaches.
PS5 - Screen-Space Shadows on
PS5 - Screen-Space Shadows off
Nintendo Switch
PS4
GPU breadcrumbs on all platforms
Now you can have GPU crash reports on all platforms. We skipped OpenGL ES and DX11 so ...
A simple example of a crash report is this:
2024-04-04 23:44:08 [MainThread ] 09a_HybridRaytracing.cp:1685 ERR| [Breadcrumb] Simulating a GPU crash situation (RAYTRACE SHADOWS)...
2024-04-04 23:44:10 [MainThread ] 09a_HybridRaytracing.cp:2428 INFO| Last rendering step (approx): Raytrace Shadows, crashed frame: 2
We will extend the reporting a bit more over time.