The Hacks of Life

For the first time today, I ran an optimized DSF render using RenderFarm (the internal tool we use to make the global scenery) compiled by ...

I've been thinking a lot lately about revision control for art assets. As X-Plane has grown, our art team has grown, and as the art tea...

For anyone doing serious graphics works, this post will be totally "duh", but it took me a few minutes to get my head straight, s...

When Blender describes a rotation as an 'XYZ' Euler (with 3 angles), this is what they mean: The Z axis is "up" (the Y ...

I'm trying to not clog up the X-Plane developer blog with tons of technical C++ details. There are a small number of developers who act...

TL;DR: when streaming uniforms, glMapBuffer is not a great idea; glBufferSubData may actually work well in some cases. I just fixed a nas...

Just a few raw notes about Metal as I go through the 2015 WWDC talks. This mostly discusses what has been added to Metal to make it desktop...