A different, hopefully better, approach to game engine resource management Intro Over the years I started shifting my game engine resource management to a different paradigm rather than the usual OOP. Such a paradigm is composed of a manager plus resource handles. I have used this system in many personal projects to great success. I hope it can be useful to other people and hope to hear different ways people handle their resources too! Read more ...

My take on realtime grass Intro The latest effort in my engine has been a grass system. After porting quite a bit of the DX12 functionality to Vulkan I got to the point where I wanted to work on something new rather than just porting features to Vulkan. At a glance what I did in my grass shader was: Using blue noise distribution for grass blades positions. Vertex + fragment shader, no geometry/tessellation shader involved. Read more ...

What do some Rust features compile to? Intro I have been starting to have a look at Rust lately, mostly because WASM is growing on me and Rust has the best tool in class for it, or so I am told. I am eager to find out by myself. Rust comes with several new idioms and structures in the language I am not used to, and being a performance enthusiast, I always get interested in what such constructs translate to. Read more ...