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Optimize brute-force forward rendering

The early implementation of CPU-transformed forward rendering could be restructured to use a more performant set of functions. For each vertex iteration the current version makes 2 calls to D3DXVe...

Id #6231 | Release: None | Updated: Sep 8 2007 at 4:23 PM by JHoxley | Created: Sep 8 2007 at 4:23 PM by JHoxley

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Code Documentation

Various utilities exist for extracting code comments out into static help files. An audit of source code documentation and steps to generate some form of reference material should be performed.

Id #5834 | Release: [Beta-1] Refactored and general code improvements | Updated: Aug 30 2007 at 6:10 PM by JHoxley | Created: Aug 30 2007 at 6:10 PM by JHoxley

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Performance and informational statistics

Some sort of textual or graphical means for outputting various developer or end-user information is required. Statistics such as frame-rate, VRAM usage and device/driver names are of particular im...

Id #5833 | Release: [Alpha-5] User Interface | Updated: Aug 30 2007 at 6:04 PM by JHoxley | Created: Aug 30 2007 at 6:04 PM by JHoxley

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GUI Controls for switching modes

This project offers numerous routes through the rendering pipeline and it is essential that the end-user has a way of controlling this. Some sort of GUI indicating what modes are available and all...

Id #5832 | Release: [Alpha-5] User Interface | Updated: Aug 30 2007 at 6:01 PM by JHoxley | Created: Aug 30 2007 at 6:01 PM by JHoxley

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Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing Support

A standard quality requirement for real-time graphics is the inclusion of MSAA. For forward rendering this is a fairly trivial set of changes, but it is much more involved for deferred shading. W...

Id #5831 | Release: [Alpha-4] Deferred Rendering | Updated: Aug 30 2007 at 5:57 PM by JHoxley | Created: Aug 30 2007 at 5:57 PM by JHoxley

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Optimize resource modification code

Both ForwardRenderer and InstancedForwardRenderer use trivial resource modification code that can be improved. In particular :- 1. Switching from DISCARD locks and change to only update/add chang...

Id #5755 | Release: None | Updated: Aug 29 2007 at 8:17 PM by JHoxley | Created: Aug 29 2007 at 8:17 PM by JHoxley

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Static code analysis and code quality

Naming conventions and general code quality should be fed through a static code analysis tool to ensure consistency and high quality software. Exact coding conventions aren't as important as consi...

Id #5494 | Release: [Beta-1] Refactored and general code improvements | Updated: Aug 30 2007 at 6:11 PM by JHoxley | Created: Aug 27 2007 at 11:18 AM by JHoxley

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Refactor forward rendering

ForwardRenderer and InstancedForwardRenderer share a lot of similar or identical code. Moving this to a base class (or extracting utility methods) would be better software design.

Id #5493 | Release: [Beta-1] Refactored and general code improvements | Updated: Aug 30 2007 at 6:11 PM by JHoxley | Created: Aug 27 2007 at 11:16 AM by JHoxley

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Refactor effect/technique codebase

It is clear that a more efficient design for effects could be beneficial, both for application performance and for a clean and correct design. Having each 'PipeRenderer' class contain its own ID3D...

Id #5492 | Release: [Beta-1] Refactored and general code improvements | Updated: Aug 30 2007 at 6:11 PM by JHoxley | Created: Aug 27 2007 at 10:37 AM by JHoxley

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Screensaver - Preview mode not functional

From initial testing it seems that pointing DXUT to the HWND provided by the Windows control panel does not work. Consequently the user cannot see a preview in the control panel applet in the same ...

Id #187 | Release: None | Updated: May 6 2007 at 3:08 PM by JHoxley | Created: May 6 2007 at 3:08 PM by JHoxley