- Rendering Engine
- Support for Multiple Graphics APIs : OpenGL | Vulkan | DirectX12 | DirectX11 | Metal
- Content Export Pipeline : Create Maya/Max Plugins to export meshes based on Renderers needs. (Assimp Commercial Licence -> Pay)
- Texture Compression Libraries
- Material System : Artists Configure shaders, textures, parameters to import in game
- Game-side Manager of Models/Materials/Lights
- Good Visibility System (Frustum/Occlusion) (VisibilityBuffers?)
- Multi-Threded Submission System to reduce cost of submission to GPU
- Lighting/Shadow Rendering System
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GPU Optimization for Games
- Emil Persson @Humus
- Matt Pettineo @mynameismjp
- 2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
- 2013 - Performance Optimization Guidelines and the GPU Architecture behind them
- 2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
- 2015 - Render Hell 2.0
- 2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
- 2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
- 2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon
Let's say you receive an app (e.g. MyApp.ipa) from another developer, and you want to be able to install and run it on your devices (by using ideviceinstaller, for example).
Or your certificates and provision profiles have expired and you want to provide a new build to your clients without having to make a new build on the latest XCode or iOS SDK.
The first step is to attain a Provisioning Profile which includes all of the devices you wish to install and run on. Ensure that the profile contains a certificate that you have installed in your Keychain Access (e.g. iPhone Developer: Some Body (XXXXXXXXXX) ). Download the profile (MyProfile.mobileprovision) so you can replace the profile embedded in the app.
- Designing a Modern GPU Interface by @BrookeHodgman
- Optimizing the Graphics Pipeline with Compute by @gwihlidal
- GPU Driven Rendering Pipelines by @SebAaltonen
- Destiny’s Multi-threaded Renderer Architecture by @Mirror2Mask
- Stingray Renderer Walkthrough by @tobias_persson
This list is provided as a guide for tools engineers of all skill levels looking for jobs in the game industry. It's meant as a guide to topics that should be pursued broadly in order to be well spoken in an interview. I doubt any hiring manager requires deep knowedge across every topic, but an ideal candidate would be somewhat knowledgable (aware of its existence if asked directly) with all topics here.
Each list of bullets increases in difficulty, so later bullets are more applicable to senior (or even director) level candidates.
Good luck.
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