Metalkit.org Website Review

GPU to use, about choosing the appropriate resource storage mode based on needs, about the bandwidth and which GPU is appropriate for for programming on the GPU. You’ll start at the beginning, learn all about rendering, lighting, textures, maps, post-processing, procedural generation, multipas* and deferred rendering, and tie it all together at the end by integrating your engine with SpriteKit and SceneKit! new features that Metal 2 brings for the A11-powered devices. Imageblocks, Tile Shading, Raster Order Groups, Imageblock Sample Coverage Control, Threadgroup Sharing. Also brifly look at Face Tracking on A11 using ARKit. random generator function to populate the window with particles. Learning about the new dispatchThreads(:) method in Metal 2. Updating positions and velocities on the GPU and drawing thicker particles using a basic neighboring formula. vertex shader. Continuously updating the particles positions on the CPU and sending the updates to the GPU. Using time to emulate gravity. Implementing basic collision detection. detection in the ARKit app. Introducing the ARSessionDelegate methods for adding, updating and removing anchors. Creating the plane buffer, mesh and drawing it with a new pair of vertex and fragment functions. Rendering. Describing the main ARKit clas*es used - ARSession, ARSessionConfiguration, ARFrame, ARAnchor and ARCamera. Looking into tracking states and interruptions. Implementing a full Metal renderer for ARKit. the new Argument Buffers are the biggest addition to the framework this year. Read about how Raster Order Groups can help avoiding race conditions in shaders. Find out what the ProMotion and Direct to Display features are, and read about all the other new features Considerations about resource coherency and synchronization between CPU and GPU. Defining the Resource Storage Modes. Presenting the address space qualifiers for function variables and arguments. Looking at UnsafePointer and Pointee as another way to aceess memory locations.