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The Forge Interactive Inc., the company behind The Forge became a Khronos Associate member.

  • Ephemeris 2
    • New features
      • Add Earth radius: controls the radius of clouds' radius with scale factor. The clouds field will be flatter and the user can see further along the horizon if the radius increase
      • Add noise flow: controls the direction and intensity of clouds' noise flow
      • Add rotation: rotates clouds based on a certain pivot position.
      • Add the second layer: it is possible to generate the second cloud layer which can act, independently
      • Add FXAA
    • Improvement
      • Ray-marching: now, hard-edge artifact is significantly reduced
      • Silver-lining: improved its quality
      • God ray: improved its quality
    • Performance: up to 25% performance increased

Click on the following image to see a video:

Ephemeris 2
Head over to Custom Middleware to check out the source code.

  • macOS / iPad / iOS: ICB support for Metal renderer (draw; draw indexed; pipeline state switch with ICB; ICB optimization with BlitEncoder). The Visibility Buffer example now uses ICB features on MacOS
    • reduced memory consumption for argument buffers in Metal
    • fixes for Metal implementation of descriptor set
    • minor fixes and optimizations in Metal renderer
    • Due to bugs in the run-time for argument buffers we still can't run unit test 04, 06, and 10

The Visibility Buffer example runs now faster on macOS
macOS Visibility Buffer

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