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Category: Rendering

This page is to help game artists understand how a game engine renders their artwork.

Game Rendering Terms

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

Terms to define:

• Draw call
• Texture fetch (see )
• Fill rate
• Transform cost
• Frame rate
• Frame buffer
• VRAM, video memory
• vertex shader
• pixel shader

Threads to distill:

• FAQ: Game art optimisation (do polygon counts really matter?)
• How many textures per model is too many?
• ["Polygon Count"]

Game Rendering Primers

These articles help artists understand how game engines work, so they can learn how to build art that performs better.

• Beautiful, Yet Friendly Part 1: Stop Hitting the Bottleneck - by Guillaume Provost
• Beautiful, Yet Friendly Part 2: Maximizing Efficiency - by Guillaume Provost
• ExtremeTech 3D Pipeline Tutorial - by Dave Salvator

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