The Hacks of Life

To paraphrase the famous Nike Tiger Woods ad, "...and, did you learn anything?" X-Plane is more of a platform than a game - we...

In my previous post, I described X-Plane 10's multipass scheme for deferred rendering.  Because we need to simultaneously operate in ...

X-Plane's deferred pipeline changed a lot in our 10.10 patch, into a form that I hope is final for the version run, because I don...

I've been meaning to write up a summary of the changes I made to X-Plane's deferred rendering pipeline for X-Plane 10.10, but each...

I just finished integrating FXAA 3.11 into X-Plane 10; we were using an older FXAA implementation.  Timothy Lottes pointed me at the right ...

I have been updating X-Plane 10's deferred pipeline; when 10.10 is in a later beta and we're sure that the new pipeline is going t...

For a while X-Plane has had a performance problem pushing streaming vertices through ATI Radeon HD GPUs on Windows (but not OS X).  Our i...