Resources

prior knowledge

• hierarchical z-buffer
• bindless texture, virtual texture
• deferred texturing
• cpu occlusion culling
• steam compaction
  • Blelloch, Prefix Sumsand Their Applications
  • GPU Gems 3, Chapter 39. Parallel Prefix Sum (Scan) with CUDA
• compute shader
• directX instructions
  • gather4
  • StructuredBuffer & AppendStructuredBuffer
  • RWBuffer
  • RWTexture2D
  • DrawIndexedInstanced vs DrawIndexInstancedIndirect vs MultiDrawIndexedInstancedIndirect
    • dx12 multi-indirect draw
    • AMD driver
    • NVIDIA driver

presentations

• siggraph15, < GPU-Driven Rendering Pipelines> @ ubisoft

  中文解读 上面的pdf没有说明，对于第一次接触的人看起来会比较吃力，可以先看这篇中文解说，更好接受。

• gdc16, < Optimizing the Graphics Pipeline With Compute> @ EA

• gdc18, TerrainRenderingFarCry5 @ ubisoft

• dragons conference 18, GPU driven Occlusion Culling 有对应的presentation pdf 和 demo source code

  • 一些实现细节的blog part1

  • 一些实现细节的blog part2

  • vulkan guide GPU driven rendering guide