The Hacks of Life

I have, over the years, written more posts on VBOs and vertex performance in OpenGL than I'd like to admit. At this point, I can...

When we first put deferred rendering into X-Plane 10.0, complete with lots of spot lights in-scene, I coded up stencil volumes for the ligh...

Here's a riddle: Q: What does a two year old and OpenGL have in common?  A: You never know when either of them is going to flush.* ...

I've tried to write this post twice now, and I keep getting bogged down in the background information. In X-Plane 11.10 we fixed our lo...

Periodically in the coarse of writing an OpenVR app, I find that SteamVR can't talk to my HMD. One of the 500 processes that collaborat...

I have the same problem that a lot of users report on the web: while my Oculus Rift knows where my floor is when I am in the Oculus home ro...

I have a lot of strong (meaning "perhaps stupid") opinions about C++ and how to use it (or not use it), and I've been meaning...