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3D terrain editor brush using compute shader

i am working on 3D terrain editor, and i have simple brush for adding or subtracting height. Right now I am calculating new Heights on CPU dependent on brush radius. ...
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OpenGL approach to depth-testing-like combination of a large buffer of fragments

I have a depth buffer and color buffer created by another effect. The buffer is more than double my screen size. It is not rendered from geometry, but as a whole it resembles a rendered scene with an ...
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How Lots of ComputeBuffers at Once Affect Performance Unity

How will lots ComputeBuffer instances affect performance? And why? I know that I should call ComputeBuffer.Release() on every <...
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issue with Compute Shader macbeth chart

I'm trying to generate a macbeth chart using the compute shader, but there seems to be an issue with the output image. here is the glsl code: ...
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GLSL Atomics With Floats

I am implementing SDSM and in a GLSL compute shader I need to min/max vec3 values to compute the shadow map bounds. The sample implementation (in HLSL) uses vectors in "light space" that spans from 0-...
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Generating Mesh using Compute Shaders

I am working on a game project in unity which has a procedurally generated terrain made up of 16*128*16 chunks of blocks. The map size is going to be finite (Possibly up to ~100*100 chunks). Currently ...
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Is it possible to dispatch a specific range of thread groups in D3D compute?

I have a procedural 3D texture that is generated in a compute shader. I want to update a small, specific portion of the texture only (eg: bottom right corner). It seems wasteful to dispatch all thread ...
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How to write a PBR Unlit Shader in Unity?

I have a REALLY specific case here: I have an Texture (a webcam), that is used by a shader to pickup a few x,y colors at the cordinates, and renders to a ...
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Steering constantly turning in circles

I've been working on a fish system in a compute shader but bugs have been drowning me. The latest bug had me strip almost all the functionality to track down: Fish keep turning in circles. It starts ...
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DirectX 11 Compute Shader error DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG

I am trying to use a compute shader for ray picking technology. My shader accepts: vertex buffer of all models index buffer of all models a buffer of transformation matrices of all models Offset ...
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How to get Pixel Coordinates of certain colors in a Texture?

I have a relatively big Texture, and I try to find a certain color pixels pattern: eg. White, Black, White, Green . They are lying next to each other, If I use Texture2d.Getpixels() on every pixel ...
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Solving a recursive problem in the geometry (or any other) shader

I would like to calculate an effect of an external force on a binary tree (wind on a tree). It's a recursive function - take a (parent) node and calculate the angle to rotate all of the nodes "...
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Using a Compute Shader in Unity to convert a texture to a float array

I have a fairly simple requirement for a compute shader (DirectCompute through Unity). I have a 128x128 texture and I'd like to turn the red channel of that texture into a 1d array of floats. I need ...
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Vulkan Storage Buffers, loss of data

I have been passing glm::vec3's in an array to a storage buffer to be processed by a compute shader, but once it has been modified I am getting some malformed data back. Shader ...
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Pseudo random number generation in compute shader

Using a C# script in Unity3D to control a HLSL compute shader, I'm trying to generate pseudo random numbers on the gpu. Following along with GPU Gems 3 Hybrid Tausworthe method and another thread ...
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Get VertexSize of Instance in VertexShader

I'm using Unitys DrawProceduralIndirect function to directly render the content of a ComputeShader. I setup the argumentBuffer for this function as follows: <...
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Passing an UAV to a Pixel Shader in DirectX11

I have a compute shader which task is to take an input image and then blur it using a Gaussian filter approach. The input and output for the compute shader looks like this: ...
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Why does my triangle ray intersection test always return -1.0f?

I'm trying to get the mouse click position on a terrain geometry, but multiple times in each frame; doing it on the CPU was way too slow, so I'm trying to do it with a compute shader. I can't seem to ...
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Batch/Combine multiple Graphics.DrawProcedural-Calls in Unity

I have multiple calls to Graphics.DrawProcedural in my Unity-project. E.g. I'm drawing 1000 procedural geometries that share the same material and get their ...
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In theory, would an erosion algorithm compute faster on a GPU than CPU?

I'm planning to port an erosion algorithm from CPU to GPU, in theory, will it be faster or would it be better to multi-thread it on the CPU? The algorithm has quite a lot of if statements and loops ...
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How to sort tiled decal list?

I have a tiled forward render pipeline (also called forward+). It assigns a list of lights for every 16*16 block of pixels (tiles) on the screen. Lights are accumulated additively so their order doesn'...
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DirectX shader - how to spread raytracer computation over multiple frames?

I'm playing around making a shadertoy style SDF raytracer in HLSL and to make it run faster on high resolutions (1080p and up) I'd like to spread the computation over multiple frames. Right now I ...
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RWTexture3D in Compute Shader on Intel HD 4000

I'm having some weird issues running a Compute Shader with DirectX 11 on an Intel HD 4000 GPU. The goal is to write different shapes into a DXGI_FORMAT_R32_FLOAT 3D Texture with a size of ...
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Flowing GPU compute water

I have a civil engineering background and perform hydraulic and hydrologic analysis' regularly. They sell degrees for that sort of thing, but it's really not rocket science. I recently got it in my ...