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EricChadwick: /* Glossary */

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‎Glossary

EricChadwick: /* Draw Call */

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‎Draw Call

EricChadwick: /* Draw Call */ Unity - Manual: Draw Call Batching

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‎Draw Call: Unity - Manual: Draw Call Batching

Cheeseplus: 6 revisions

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EricChadwick at 12:06, 7 October 2013

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EricChadwick: Render Pass vs. Draw Call

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Render Pass vs. Draw Call

EricChadwick at 13:21, 1 February 2011

2011-02-01T13:21:33Z

EricChadwick: Vertex Splits link

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Vertex Splits link

EricChadwick: changed to WikiName format

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* [[Polycount|Main Page]] > [[Category:Primer]] > [[Category:Rendering]] > [[Game Rendering Terminology]]

= Game Rendering Terminology =
It helps to understand the terms a graphics programmer uses, so you can talk the talk.

; Draw call : definition here
; Texture fetch : definition here
; Fill rate : definition here
; Transform cost : definition here
; Frame rate : definition here
; Frame buffer : definition here
; VRAM, video memory : definition here
; GPU : The Graphics Processing Unit is a parallel processor for floating point operations; it's the heart & soul of your graphics card. It's mostly used for rendering calculations, but it can also be tricked into doing physics, particle systems, vertex skinning, real-time texture compression, etc. It frees the CPU (Central Processing Unit) to handle the rest of the processing tasks in the game like transforms, AI, sound, etc.
; Vertex Cache : definition here
; Vertex Shader : definition here
; Pixel Shader : definition here
; Culling : If the view camera (the viewer's eye) can't see it, don't bother processing it and only worry about what the view camera can see.
; : Trivial Accept/Reject Culling, Back-Face Culling, Occlusion Culling, Clipping.
; Z-buffer, Depth Buffer : definition here

Threads to distill:
* [http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=50588 FAQ: Game art optimisation (do polygon counts really matter?)]
* [http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=72921 How many textures per model is too many?]
* [[Polygon Count]]
* [http://www.devmaster.net/wiki/Main_Page#Graphics DevMaster wiki Graphics topics]

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* [[Polycount|Main Page]] > [[Category:Primer]] > [[Category:Rendering]] > [[Game Rendering Terminology]]

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-== Glossary ==
+=== Batching ===
-<pre><nowiki>#!wiki caution
+[http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=155560 On Draw Calls & Batching]
-'''Needs Revision'''
-This page needs to be revised. The terms should be made into pages, then added to !CategoryGlossary. Then this page can use Inclusions.
+[http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/DrawCallBatching.html Unity - Manual: Draw Call Batching]
-</nowiki></pre>

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	=== Draw Call ===		=== Draw Call ===
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	[http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/DrawCallBatching.html Unity - Manual: Draw Call Batching]		[http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/DrawCallBatching.html Unity - Manual: Draw Call Batching]

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	=== Draw Call ===		=== Draw Call ===
		+	[http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/DrawCallBatching.html Unity - Manual: Draw Call Batching]
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	[http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64325 Render Pass vs. Draw Call]		[http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64325 Render Pass vs. Draw Call]

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 === Draw Call ===
 [http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64325 Render Pass vs. Draw Call]
 === Fill Rate ===

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 === Draw Call ===
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+[http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64325 Render Pass vs. Draw Call]
 === Fill Rate ===

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 * [http://www.ericchadwick.com/examples/provost/byf2.html#wts Welcome to Splitsville] from the article "Beautiful Yet Friendly" by Guillaume Provost
 * [[Category:Whitepapers]]#Game_Renderer_Articles
 === VRAM ===

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 A ton of vertex splits can cause vertex cache misses.
-* [http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?p=767368#post767368 FAQ: Game art optimisation (do polygon counts really matter?)] on the Polycount forum.
+* [http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?p=767368#post767368 FAQ: Game art optimisation (do polygon counts really matter?)] on the Polycount forum
-* [http://www.ericchadwick.com/examples/provost/byf1.html Beautiful, Yet Friendly Part 1: Stop Hitting the Bottleneck] by [http://ca.linkedin.com/in/gprovost Guillaume Provost]
+* [http://www.ericchadwick.com/examples/provost/byf2.html#wts Welcome to Splitsville] from the article "Beautiful Yet Friendly" by Guillaume Provost
-* [http://www.ericchadwick.com/examples/provost/byf2.html Beautiful, Yet Friendly Part 2: Maximizing Efficiency] by [http://ca.linkedin.com/in/gprovost Guillaume Provost]
 * [[Category:Whitepapers]]#Game_Renderer_Articles

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+<!-- ## page was renamed from Game Rendering Terminology -->
-* [[Polycount|Main Page]] > [[Category:Primer]] > [[Category:Rendering]] > [[Game Rendering Terminology]]
-−
 = Game Rendering Terminology =
-It helps to understand the terms a graphics programmer uses, so you can talk the talk.
+These are terms every tech-savvy game artist should know.
-; Draw call : definition here
+=== Z-Buffer ===
-; Texture fetch : definition here
+(definition needed) Also known as the Depth Buffer.
-; Fill rate : definition here
-; Transform cost : definition here
-; Frame rate : definition here
-; Frame buffer : definition here
-; VRAM, video memory : definition here
-; GPU : The Graphics Processing Unit is a parallel processor for floating point operations; it's the heart & soul of your graphics card. It's mostly used for rendering calculations, but it can also be tricked into doing physics, particle systems, vertex skinning, real-time texture compression, etc. It frees the CPU (Central Processing Unit) to handle the rest of the processing tasks in the game like transforms, AI, sound, etc.
-; Vertex Cache : definition here
-; Vertex Shader : definition here
-; Pixel Shader : definition here
-; Culling : If the view camera (the viewer's eye) can't see it, don't bother processing it and only worry about what the view camera can see.
-;  : Trivial Accept/Reject Culling, Back-Face Culling, Occlusion Culling, Clipping.
-; Z-buffer, Depth Buffer : definition here
-Threads to distill:
+These are generally 16-bit buffers that store the depth of a pixel (in relation to it's distance from the camera) as a black & white value. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-buffering Z-buffering] page.
-* [http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=50588 FAQ: Game art optimisation (do polygon counts really matter?)]
-* [http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=72921 How many textures per model is too many?]
-* [[Polygon Count]]
-* [http://www.devmaster.net/wiki/Main_Page#Graphics DevMaster wiki Graphics topics]
-<<BR>>
+----
-* [[Polycount|Main Page]] > [[Category:Primer]] > [[Category:Rendering]] > [[Game Rendering Terminology]]
+[[Category:Rendering]]