I see lots of shader related videos but to me the worst part of GPU code is that the setup is archaic and hard to understand.
Does anyone have a good resource for the stages such as:
- What kind of data formats do I design to pipe into the GPU? Describe like i'm five texcels, arrays, buffers, etc.
- describe the difference between the data formats of traditional 3D workflow and more modern compute shader data formats
- Now that I supplied data, obviously I want to supply transformations as well. Transforms are not commutative, so it implies there is sequential state in which transforms are applied which seems to contradict this whole article
- The above point is more abstractly part of "supplying data into the GPU at a later stage". Am I crossing the CPU-GPU boundary multiple times before a frame is complete? If so describe the process and how/why.
- There is some kind of global variable system in GPUs. explain it. List every variable reachable from a shader fragment program
Does anyone have a good resource for the stages such as:
- What kind of data formats do I design to pipe into the GPU? Describe like i'm five texcels, arrays, buffers, etc.
- describe the difference between the data formats of traditional 3D workflow and more modern compute shader data formats
- Now that I supplied data, obviously I want to supply transformations as well. Transforms are not commutative, so it implies there is sequential state in which transforms are applied which seems to contradict this whole article
- The above point is more abstractly part of "supplying data into the GPU at a later stage". Am I crossing the CPU-GPU boundary multiple times before a frame is complete? If so describe the process and how/why.
- There is some kind of global variable system in GPUs. explain it. List every variable reachable from a shader fragment program