Forward Rendering Pipeline

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Create a robust rendering pipeline for v0.2.0 of the engine.

Characteristics

• [ ] Renders the landscape.
• [ ] Renders multiple agents.
• [ ] Can optionally render vertex normals.
• [ ] Frustum Culling
• [ ] Ambient Lightning (Objects are just visible)
• [ ] Point and Directed Lighting (Objects are lit by lights).

Rendering Architecture

Renderer Style: Forward Rendering

Render Graphs/Frame Graphs

• Original Render Graph GDC Talk
• Render Graph 101
• Why Talking About Render Graphs
• GFX Frame Graph Resources
• Render graphs and Vulkan — a deep dive

Bindless Rendering

• WebGPU Investigation
• WebGPU Bindless Tracking Issue
• Bindless rendering

Considerations

• Leverage GPU render bundles and draw instance calls.
  • Javascript Example
  • WebGPU Render Bundle best practices
  • Z coordinates in WebGPU
  • Depth Precision Visualized