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D3D12 APITrace - Capture and Replay

The past week, I have been working on an APITrace implementation for Direct3D 12, primarily for use for developing VKD3D-Proton (a D3D12->Vulkan translation layer.) Joshua-Ashton/apitraceTools for tracing OpenGL, Direct3D, and other graphics APIs - Joshua-Ashton/apitraceGitHubJoshua-AshtonThis work may be useful for people who are developing games or

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Get into Source Programming - Getting and Building Enhanced Source (Part 1)

What is this guide?This tutorial series will cover how to get started with Enhanced Source, making your first entity (a cute little froggie!) as well as the basics on how to use Git effectively. Enhanced Source is a modified version of the Alien Swarm SDK containing a large amounts

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An (unofficial) Vulkan Depth Bias Extension

Why? D3D9 (Floating Point Depth Bias) D3D9 requires us to use floating point depth bias values -- this is an issue as Vulkan uses lowest representable value for the value (which is format based), however, we can't just multiply our way out of this problem, as this wouldn't work as