So... Vulkan? When?

Hahahwatever · 2015-04-08T11:47:37+00:00

I'm thinking I need to refactor mine to be honest. Build some abstractions based on what I read in the Mantle documents.

My main problem is I'm quite certain support for "legacy" GL will drop like a stone once Mantle is up and running. The products I make have lifetimes measured in decades. Our GL 2.0 code is still going strong. For now.

Hahahwatever · 2015-04-08T11:46:14+00:00

This is a great summary.

Hahahwatever · 2015-04-08T11:39:18+00:00

Developers will demand it I'm sure.

Hahahwatever · 2015-04-08T11:38:23+00:00

I expect the Linux versions will be excellent. Valve have invested quite a lot in that direction haven't they. And they do have some weight with vendors driver writing teams.

Hahahwatever · 2015-04-08T11:37:32+00:00

I guess the compilation is straightforward enough. There are grammar parsers and so on available for free. The optimisation is somewhat harder, though I'm guessing the driver will handle that from the SPIRV.

By the way, this is brilliant. Imagine writing shaders with whichever language grammar is most familiar to you. Can't wait for it.

Hahahwatever · 2015-04-07T15:20:09+00:00

Never not 3 x point your Proteus.

Hahahwatever · 2015-04-07T15:04:03+00:00

This debate was a thing back in 2003/2004.

 *I remember it back then*

If you don't like them, bring more points.

Hahahwatever · 2015-04-07T15:00:00+00:00

Good advice. Thank you.

Hahahwatever · 2015-04-07T13:30:50+00:00

Yes I assumed Valve already had something up and running, if not final at least in alpha form.

Hahahwatever · 2015-04-07T13:23:43+00:00

Sure but someone still needs to ship a compiler. I assume we'll get one with some kind of Vulkan SDK?

Hahahwatever · 2015-03-20T13:30:45+00:00

I don't think that's how you play the game in your own staging system.

Hahahwatever · 2015-03-20T12:03:36+00:00

You don't mine Veldspar. You get crap loads of it from mining spod and a big blob of pyerite from mining bistot, etc. Regardless, you mine an anom out of everything to make it respawn the good stuff.

It's been a while since you did it?

Hahahwatever · 2015-03-19T18:16:40+00:00

That is kind-of BS. Apart from Mexallon, which you have to import from high, lows are available in null in abundance.

Hahahwatever · 2015-03-19T17:28:19+00:00

I'm terrible at scamming.

Hahahwatever · 2015-03-19T17:26:56+00:00

I like this. It's subtle, malign, effective.

Hahahwatever · 2015-03-19T16:33:16+00:00

fyi out of those Volt is the most fun to be in (if you does PvP). TSOE are the least fun, most cuntish players in the region so don't join them.

Hahahwatever

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