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Vulkan @vulkan.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 3h

Autodesk VRED 2026 has introduced new Vulkan renderer alongside the traditional OpenGL real-time pipeline, addressing fundamental limitations while introducing hybrid ray tracing capabilities that significantly enhance visual quality in real-time scenarios on […]

[Original post on fosstodon.org]

Autodesk VRED 2026: How Autodesk revolutionized visualization with Vulkan

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Christoph Kubisch @pixeljetstream.bsky.social · 10d

Major Update to vk_gaussian_splatting sample by Jean-Eudes Marvie
-Unscented transforms allow proper fisheye effect
-SPZ file format support
And more

#vulkan #3dgs

github.com/nvpro-sample...

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Soufiane KHIAT @soufianekhiat.bsky.social · 21d

My team is hiring. Let's join Battlefield 6 Rendering Team (Montréal).
jobs.ea.com/en_US/ca...

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saschawillems.bsky.social @saschawillems.bsky.social · Sep 13

One idea I'm pondering with is to introduce some sort of device age. E.g. when it was first submitted and then you could exclude devices "older" than x years. Thought that won't be 100% perfect, as device names differ between OS and vendors sometimes change them.

saschawillems.bsky.social @saschawillems.bsky.social · Sep 13

Also no way for me to add something like market share. I wonder where that D3D12 database gets those numbers from. Only place I can imagine is Steam, but that's desktop only and you have to get those numbers manually.

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saschawillems.bsky.social @saschawillems.bsky.social · Sep 13

That's something I've been wanting to do, but things are much harder in Vulkan land :/

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Christoph Kubisch @pixeljetstream.bsky.social · Sep 10

Anpther major update to our cluster lod ray tracing sample.
Zorah scene available as glTF
raw.githubusercontent.com/nvpro-sample...
BLAS caching github.com/nvpro-sample... BLAS merging github.com/nvpro-sample...

Special thanks to Adam Marrs, Pyarelal Knowles for ideas and Chris Perrella for zorah.

Computer graphics image of a classical building with intricate geometric details in ornaments. Rendering and scene statistics

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mjp @mjp123.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code.

(And yes it's really been 10 years 👴).

therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...

Ten Years of D3D12

For those of us that have been using it from the start, it can be hard to believe that Direct3D 12 has been around for nearly ten years now. Windows 10 was released on July 29th 2015, and D3D12 has be...

therealmjp.github.io

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baldurk @baldurk.bsky.social · Sep 5

RenderDoc v1.40 is now available! This version includes support for VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer, and vulkan 1.4, as well as some other bug fixes an quality of life improvements.

Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...

Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds

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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · Aug 29

New blog post discussing a few approaches to bottleneck reduction and GPU utilisation and performance increase interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/g...

GPU utilisation and performance improvements

Drill deep into a GPU’s architecture and at its heart you will find a large number of SIMD units whose purpose is to read data, perform some vector or scalar ALU (VALU or SALU) operation on i…

interplayoflight.wordpress.com

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idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social · Aug 26

Slides from my SIGGRAPH 2025 and CEDEC 2025 talks “Fast as Hell: idTech 8 Global Illumination”, are now publicly available through the Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course. Lecture recordings will be available soon on the course's YouTube channel.

ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 26

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course slides for "Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination” talk by @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social from @idsoftware.bsky.social
are now online
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

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Arseny Kapoulkine @zeux.io · Aug 20

meshoptimizer v0.25 is out! Featuring new simplification function that optimizes positions and attributes for appearance, experimental permissive mode to simplify faceted regions with selective seam preservation, regularization option for improved tessellation quality and deformation, multiple ...

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Stephen Hill @selfshadow.com · Aug 10

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow:
blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

SIGGRAPH 2025 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice

blog.selfshadow.com

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saschawillems.bsky.social @saschawillems.bsky.social · Aug 15

When I started work on my @vulkan.org #Vulkan C++ samples almost 10 years ago I made some non-optimal decisions esp. around sync and command buffer recording. Finally fixed those and did a write-up with a small retrospective at www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/08...

Fundamental Vulkan Samples rework

Fundamental Vulkan Samples rework (Sync, command buffers and more) Some history It’s been almost ten years since I started working on my open source C++ Vulkan samples. Never would I have imagined wha...

www.saschawillems.de

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Christoph Kubisch @pixeljetstream.bsky.social · Aug 12

Jean-Eudes Marvie updated the vk_gaussian_splatting sample with ray tracing techniques
github.com/nvpro-sample... @vulkan.org

GitHub - nvpro-samples/vk_gaussian_splatting: Sample implementing several rendering methods for 3D gaussians using Vulkan API

Sample implementing several rendering methods for 3D gaussians using Vulkan API - nvpro-samples/vk_gaussian_splatting

github.com

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Dihara Wijetunga @diharaw94.bsky.social · Aug 7

Back in 2021 I released a Vulkan sample that demonstrated adding ray-tracing to a traditional game render pipeline. Since then the code has rotted away and stopped working. So this week I finally resurrected it! Hope it will keep being a learning resource for beginners.

github.com/diharaw/hybr...

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Aug 4

We are excited for next week's SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, Canada! Come see our Birds of a Feather (BOF) session, panels, Forging Forward with Vulkan. Don’t miss your chance to connect with us and the wider developer community.

www.khronos.org/events/siggr...
#SIGGRAPH2025 #vulkan #api

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saschawillems.bsky.social @saschawillems.bsky.social · Jul 31

In case anyone is having issues accessing my @vulkan.org #Vulkan hardware database: Looks like someone is running a DDoS against the site. It seems like whoever is doing that has been ramping up hits against the site in recent days. Right now up from the usual 60~80k to almost a million :(

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Adam Sawicki @asawicki.info · Jul 30

Debugging AMD-Specific Issues with Driver Experiments Tool - new article on my blog.
asawicki.info/news_1788_de...

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · Jul 26

Looks like I’ll be giving a talk about working on X-Plane at GPC 🥳. Covering how we went from a GL 2.1(!) codebase to a modern Vulkan/Metal one and the challenges and advantages of working on a single product for 30 years, with an eye on the unique challenges of a small studio working on flight sims

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Christoph Kubisch @pixeljetstream.bsky.social · Jul 24

Just pushed a technique to avoid too many BLAS builds for continuous cluster-based LoD ray tracing. Thanks to Pyarelal Knowles whose instance merging idea was a precursor to this solution and helped on debugging.

github.com/nvpro-sample...

github.com

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Jul 9

Today, with the release of version 1.4.321 of the #Vulkan specification, Vulkan Video is once again being expanded for encoding operations with the introduction of the Encode Intra-refresh extension—the second advanced feature extension for encoding.

khr.io/1l7

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saschawillems.bsky.social @saschawillems.bsky.social · Jun 27

New update for the @vulkan.org #Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer released.

This adds in support for several new extensions and also is the first version with native builds for Linux ARM64 thanks to an external contribution.

Download at: vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php

Vulkan on gpuinfo.org

Vulkan hardware capability database.

vulkan.gpuinfo.org

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saschawillems.bsky.social @saschawillems.bsky.social · Jun 22

Same for Windows. Make sure that an up-to-date version of slang is in the path. I simply delete the .exe from the SDK to avoid mistakes ;)

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saschawillems.bsky.social @saschawillems.bsky.social · Jun 21

Playing around with #Vulkan @vulkan.org and JoltPhysics. Integrating Jolt was pretty straight-forward (compared to other physics engines). Both in terms of build setup and code. Nice job @jrouwe.bsky.social :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yc6...

Vulkan and Jolt Physics Engine

YouTube video by Sascha Willems

www.youtube.com

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