@Steve_Yorkshire Thanks! So, update time again! And boy howdy, have I had 2 busy weekends! Last weekend, or more specifically, the thursday leading up to it, I suffered a very fast, sudden harddrive failure of my main gamedev drive. The good news is I obsessively back up my stuff in several location...

I take it other GPU-requiring programs have no issues running in your VM, like a game or somesuch? SDL's pretty good about detecting stuff as far as i know, so if something's getting missed, we'll want to check on that. The VM could be confounding it's detection though. Also, just to clarify, Az's P...

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Sweet. You've definitely put a ton of work into this!

Excellent work, sir!

A quick update with the weekend's progress. I ended up getting less done than I'd hoped. I was getting the sRGB stuff pulled out of the PBR rnd stuff to PR, and it touches a LOT of spots, so it took me a fair while to de-tangle for a PR. There's still a tidibt or two to shore up for a real PR, but i...

@damik Oho, interesting find. As @Duion said, people have tried implementing DSSDO, but this looks like a slightly different(and more accurate) technique. Pretty much the same big potential hangup though - doesn't work with stuff outside the view. Still, probably worth looking into depending on how ...

Hm, I'll take an eyeball on how the current water stuff does it, because being able to permute the vert positions is definitely something that should be possible in a custom mat. So if it's choking that hard, it needs a-looking.

I mean, for a long-term goal, I'm reaaaaally hoping MS themselves drop it and swap to clang. But for the near-term, I agree, a bit pre-emptive to whole-hog over to it just yet.

Quite a few things we're looking to that should help on the performance side. A number of small improvements - cleanup of extraneous codebits, such as needlessly rebinding shader uniforms or render targets, can lead to small savings. We've also got some cbuffer implementation that will get PR'd afte...

@Jason Campbell Yep Plan is to shift to a more artist-friendly setup that uses the nodegraph UI so it's visually based. We're also mulling on maintaining 'legacy mode' with the inspector-field style setup that the current material editor has for people more comfortable with that if they don't wanna ...