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The Forge Cross-Platform Rendering Framework PC, Linux, Ray Tracing, macOS / iOS, Android, XBOX, PS4, Switch, Stadia

License: Apache License 2.0

C++ 53.91% C 8.33% Objective-C 1.22% Objective-C++ 4.19% HLSL 0.24% GLSL 17.07% Python 0.74% Batchfile 0.04% Shell 0.01% Lua 0.12% JavaScript 0.86% HTML 0.05% C# 0.34% Metal 11.67% CSS 0.02% Makefile 1.21%

the-forge's Introduction

The Forge is a cross-platform rendering framework supporting

  • PC
    • Windows 10
      • with DirectX 12 / Vulkan 1.1
      • with DirectX Ray Tracing API
      • DirectX 11 Fallback Layer for Windows 7 support (not extensively tested)
    • Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Vulkan 1.1 and RTX Ray Tracing API
  • Android Pie with Vulkan 1.1
  • macOS / iOS / iPad OS with Metal 2.2
  • XBOX One / XBOX One X (only available for accredited developers on request)
  • PS4 / PS4 Pro (only available for accredited developers on request)
  • Switch (in development) (only available for accredited developers on request)
  • Google Stadia (in development) (only available for accredited developers on request)

Particularly, the graphics layer of The Forge supports cross-platform

  • Descriptor management. A description is on this Wikipage
  • Multi-threaded and asynchronous resource loading
  • Shader reflection
  • Multi-threaded command buffer generation

The Forge can be used to provide the rendering layer for custom next-gen game engines. It is also meant to provide building blocks to write your own game engine. It is like a "lego" set that allows you to use pieces to build a game engine quickly. The "lego" High-Level Features supported on all platforms are at the moment:

  • Asynchronous Resource loading with a resource loader task system as shown in 10_PixelProjectedReflections
  • Lua Scripting System - currently used in 06_Playground to load models and textures and animate the camera
  • Animation System based on Ozz Animation System
  • Consistent Math Library based on an extended version of Vectormath with NEON intrinsics for mobile platforms
  • Extended version of EASTL
  • For loading art assets we have a modified and integrated version of Assimp
  • Consistent Memory Managament:
  • Input system with Gestures for Touch devices based on an extended version of gainput
  • Fast Entity Component System based on our internally developed ECS
  • UI system based on imGui with a dedicated unit test extended for touch input devices
  • Audio based on integrating SoLoud
  • Shader Translator using a superset of HLSL as the shader language. There is a Wiki page on how to use the Shader Translator
  • Various implementations of high-end Graphics Effects as shown in the unit tests below

Please find a link and credits for all open-source packages used at the end of this readme.

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Build Status

  • Windows Build status
  • macOS Build Status

News

Release 1.35 - October 3rd - New Ozz Animation Unit Test | Updated Shader Translator | Maintenance update macOS / iOS

After only a bit more than one week we wanted to ship a quick update ...

  • Ozz Animation System: there is a new unit test added to The Forge.

Ozz Inverse Kinematic: This unit test shows how to use Aim and Two bone IK solvers

Ozz Aim IK

Ozz Two Bone IK

  • Shader Translator:
    • Implicit cast fixes submitted for review
    • Added automated testing on mac via ssh from Windows - still requires integration in CI.
    • Argument buffer support
    • Fixed scalar swizzle in MSL
    • Fixed texture array output in MSL
    • Fixed indentation in MSL for compute shaders
    • Fixed redundant parenthesis in if statement warning in HLSL and MSL
    • Fixed texture object Load method output for MSL
  • Maintenance Update macOS / iOS:
    • Unified depth-stencil texture handling across macOS and iOS. To use a combined
    • The TEXTURE_CREATION_FLAG_ON_TILE flag now specifies that a render target attachment should neither be loaded or stored, in addition to ensuring that the attachment is memoryless on iOS
    • Added TEXTURE_CREATION_FLAG_ON_TILE to the depth buffers within many of the unit tests
    • Fixed a resource barrier issue in the Tessellation unit test on macOS and iOS
    • We still encounter many bugs especially on INTEL based devices. We have RADARs with Apple and we are hoping those will go away over time. Let us know if you need any help with the macOS / iOS run-time.

If you want to join us in sunny Encinitas, CA, USA as a graphics programmer, we would like to hear from you. If you are interested in working in our offices world-wide please let us know as well. We are in Spain, Netherlands, Ukraine, India, New Zealand and other places.

Release 1.34 - September 23rd - TinyImageFormat | Microprofiler uses imGUI | 4th gen Descriptor System

  • TinyImageFormat support: Deano Calver @DeanoC added his image format support library to The Forge. TinyImageFormat provides a query mechanism and encode/decode for many CPU and GPU image formats. Allowing you to use whatever pixel data is best whether its loading/saving or procedural generation.
  • Microprofiler: @zeuxcg this is the third rewrite of the Microprofiler. We replaced the proprietary UI with imGUI and simplified the usage. Now it is much more tightly and consistently integrated in our code base.

Microprofiler

Microprofiler

Microprofiler

Microprofiler

Here are screenshots of the Microprofiler running a unit test on iOS:

Microprofiler

Microprofiler

Microprofiler

Check out the Wikipage for an explanation on how to use it.

  • Descriptor System: @gavkar this is at least the fourth rewrite of the descriptor system now with support for the brand new argument buffers on macOS / iOS. It requires latest OS and XCode versions. This is a major update to the macOS / iOS runtime and it comes with many implementation changes:

    • improved Metal resource usage with useHeaps and useResorces

    • Metal shader reflection system was refactored

    • fixes and optimizations for some unit tests on MacOS and iOS platforms

    • initial support for paramIndex

    • more informative debug labels for Metal resources

      This is probably the first engine integration of argument buffers, so there are issues with the following unit tests on iPadOS/iOS platforms:

    • 04_ExecuteIndirect_iOS: GPU hangs due to argument buffers corruption in latest iOS 13.1. The bug doesn't occur if validation layer is enabled!

    • 06_MaterialPlayground_iOS: Fails to compile shaders trying to write to Texture2DArray (iOS 13.1 beta 2 & 3)

    • 10_PixelProjectedReflections on iOS: iOS Metal shader compiler crashes

    Check out the Wikipage for a high-level view of the architecture.

  • Light & Shadow Playground: we cleaned up the code base of the Light & Shadow Playground and integrated missing pieces into The Forge Eco system.

  • Shader Translator: a lot of work went into the Shader Translator since the last release. Let us know how it works for you. There is a how-to on the Wiki page here:

    How to use the Shader Translator

  • Issues: fixed #129 "Metal backend buffer namespace collision"

Release 1.33 - August 30th - glTF model viewer | Basis Universal Texture Support | Updated Shader Translator | New Input System Architecture

  • glTF model viewer - we build a simple cross-platform glTF model viewer by integrating Arseny Kapoulkine @zeuxcg excellent meshoptimizer and the same PBR as used in the Material Playground unit test.
    • It optimizes the geometry data set with all the features meshoptimizer offers
    • It will be extended in the future with more functionality, following some of our internal tools
    • Uses the cgltf reader from the same repository

glTF model viewer running on iPad with 2048x1536 resolution

glTF model viewer

glTF model viewer

glTF model viewer running on Samsung Galaxy S10 with Vulkan with 1995x945 resolution

glTF model viewer

glTF model viewer

glTF model viewer running on Ubuntu AMD RX 480 with Vulkan with 1920x1080 resolution

glTF model viewer

glTF model viewer

  • Basis Universal Texture Support: TF now supports Binomials @richgel999 @google Basis Universal Texture Support as an option to load textures. Support was added to the Image class as a "new image format". So you can pick basis like you can pick DDS or KTX.

  • Shader Translator: since more than a year we are developing on and off a shader translator that allows us to define our own shader language. This shader language is an extension to HLSL and will in the future offer the opportunity to store more data for the various platforms. For example we will able to pre-compile pipelines with this setup. We are using it extensively to translate all the shaders you see in The Forge. You can find the source code in

    Common_3/ThirdParty/OpenSource/hlslparser

    The public version translates at the moment to HLSL, GLSL and Metal. Metal support is still work in progress. There is a test scenario where the shader translator translates most of the shaders of the unit tests and examples to HLSL and GLSL. It will be integrated into our Jenkins test system and it gets tested with every code change.

  • Input system: we re-architected the app level interface for our cross-platform input system based on gainput. Our previous interface somehow leaned toward PC input systems and we wanted to better focus on our main target platforms.

  • Ozz animation system: we cleaned up the code base. There was a lot of unused code because we wired up the system with all the "service providers" of The Forge. So Ozz like any other third party library is using the math, log, error, assert, file system, memory management and others sub-systems from The Forge. Previously, it had a lot of those implemented on its own.

  • Issues resolved:

    • 128 "The DepthStateDesc.mDepthTest is ignored on the Metal backend"
    • 130 "Vulkan and D3D12 backend set sampler maxLod to zero for nearest mipmap mode"
    • 131 "Vulkan sampler set the anistropy flag to false always."

See the release notes from previous releases in the Release section.

PC Windows Requirements:

  1. Windows 10

  2. Drivers

  • AMD / NVIDIA / Intel - latest drivers
  1. Visual Studio 2017 with Windows SDK / DirectX version 17763.132 (you need to get it via the Visual Studio Intaller) https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/sdk-archive

  2. The Forge supports now as the min spec for the Vulkan SDK 1.1.82.0 and as the max spec 1.1.114

  3. The Forge is currently tested on

  • AMD 5x, VEGA GPUs (various)
  • NVIDIA GeForce 9x, 10x. 20x GPUs (various)
  • Intel Skull Canyon

macOS Requirements:

  1. macOS 10.15 beta 8 (19A558d)

  2. Xcode 11.0 (11A419c)

  3. The Forge is currently tested on the following macOS devices:

  • iMac with AMD RADEON 560 (Part No. MNDY2xx/A)
  • iMac with AMD RADEON 580 (Part No. MNED2xx/A)
  • MacBook Pro 13 inch (MacBookPro13,2)
  • Macbook Pro 13 inch (MacbookPro14,2)

In the moment we do not have access to an iMac Pro or Mac Pro. We can test those either with Team Viewer access or by getting them into the office and integrating them into our build system. We will not test any Hackintosh configuration.

iOS Requirements:

  1. iOS 13.1 beta 3 (17A5837a)

  2. XCode: see macOS

To run the unit tests, The Forge requires an iOS device with an A9 or higher CPU (see GPU Processors or see iOS_Family in this table iOS_GPUFamily3_v3). This is required to support the hardware tessellation unit test and the ExecuteIndirect unit test (requires indirect buffer support). The Visibility Buffer doesn't run on current iOS devices because the texture argument buffer on those devices is limited to 31 (see Metal Feature Set Table and look for the entry "Maximum number of entries in the texture argument table, per graphics or compute function") , while on macOS it is 128, which we need for the bindless texture array.

We are currently testing on

  • iPhone 7 (Model A1778)
  • iPhone Xs Max (Model MT5D2LL/A)

iPad OS Requirements:

  1. iPadOS 13.1 beta 3 (17A5837a)

  2. XCode: see macOS

We are currently testing on:

  • iPad (Model A1893)

PC Linux Requirements:

  1. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Kernel Version: 4.15.0-20-generic

  2. GPU Drivers:

  1. Workspace file is provided for codelite 12.0.6

  2. Vulkan SDK Version 1.1.101: download the native Ubuntu Linux package for all the elements of the Vulkan SDK LunarG Vulkan SDK Packages for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04

  3. The Forge is currently tested on Ubuntu with the following GPUs:

  • AMD RADEON RX 480
  • AMD RADEON VEGA 56
  • NVIDIA GeForce 2070 RTX

Android Requirements:

  1. Android Phone with Android Pie (9.x) for Vulkan 1.1 support

  2. Visual Studio 2017 with support for Android API level 28

At the moment, the Android run-time does not support the following unit tests due to -what we consider- driver bugs:

  • 04_ExecuteIndirect
  • 07_Tesselation
  • 08_Procedural
  • 09a_HybridRayTracing
  • 10_PixelProjectedReflections
  • 12_RendererRuntimeSwitch
  • 14_WaveIntrinsics
  • 15_Transparency
  • 16_RayTracing
  • 16a_SphereTracing
  • Visibility Buffer
  1. We are currently testing on

Install

  • For PC Windows run PRE_BUILD.bat. It will download and unzip the art assets and install the shader builder extension for Visual Studio 2017.

  • For Linux and Mac run PRE_BUILD.command. If its the first time checking out the forge make sure the PRE_BUILD.command has the correct executable flag by running the following command chmod +x PRE_BUILD.command

    It will only download and unzip required Art Assets (No plugins/extensions install).

Unit Tests

There are the following unit tests in The Forge:

1. Transformation

This unit test just shows a simple solar system. It is our "3D game Hello World" setup for cross-platform rendering.

Image of the Transformations Unit test

2. Compute

This unit test shows a Julia 4D fractal running in a compute shader. In the future this test will use several compute queues at once.

Image of the Compute Shader Unit test

3. Multi-Threaded Rendering

This unit test shows how to generate a large number of command buffers on all platforms supported by The Forge. This unit test is based on a demo by Intel called Stardust.

Image of the Multi-Threaded command buffer generation example

4. ExecuteIndirect

This unit test shows the difference in speed between Instanced Rendering, using ExecuteIndirect with CPU update of the indirect argument buffers and using ExecuteIndirect with GPU update of the indirect argument buffers. This unit test is based on the Asteroids example by Intel.

Image of the ExecuteIndirect Unit test Using ExecuteIndirect with GPU updates for the indirect argument buffers

Image of the ExecuteIndirect Unit test Using ExecuteIndirect with CPU updates for the indirect argument buffers

Image of the ExecuteIndirect Unit test Using Instanced Rendering

5. Font Rendering

This unit test shows the current state of our font rendering library that is based on several open-source libraries.

Image of the Font Rendering Unit test

6. Material Playground

This unit test shows a range of game related materials:

Hair: Many years ago in 2012 / 2013, we helped AMD and Crystal Dynamics with the development of TressFX for Tomb Raider. We also wrote an article about the implementation in GPU Pro 5 and gave a few joint presentations on conferences like FMX. At the end of last year we revisited TressFX. We took the current code in the GitHub repository, changed it a bit and ported it to The Forge. It now runs on PC with DirectX 12 / Vulkan, macOS and iOS with Metal 2 and on the XBOX One. We also created a few new hair assets so that we can showcase it. Here is a screenshot of our programmer art:

Hair on PC

Metal:

Material Playground Metal on PC

Wood:

Material Playground Wood on PC

7. Hardware Tessellation

This unit test showcases the rendering of grass with the help of hardware tessellation.

Image of the Hardware Tessellation Unit test

8. glTF Model Viewer

A cross-platform glTF model viewer that optimizes the vertex and index layout for the underlying platform and picks the right texture format for the underlying platform. We integrated Arseny Kapoulkine @zeuxcg excellent meshoptimizer and use the same PBR as used in the Material Playground unit test. This modelviewer can also utilize Binomials Basis Universal Texture Support as an option to load textures. Support was added to the Image class as a "new image format". So you can pick basis like you can pick DDS or KTX. For iOS / Android we go directly to ASTC because Basis doesn't support ASTC at the moment.

glTF model viewer running on iPad with 2048x1536 resolution

glTF model viewer

glTF model viewer

glTF model viewer running on Samsung Galaxy S10 with Vulkan with 1995x945 resolution

glTF model viewer

glTF model viewer

glTF model viewer running on Ubuntu AMD RX 480 with Vulkan with 1920x1080 resolution

glTF model viewer

glTF model viewer

9. Light and Shadow Playground

This unit test shows various shadow and lighting techniques that can be chosen from a drop down menu. There will be more in the future.

  • Exponential Shadow Map - this is based on Marco Salvi's @marcosalvi papers. This technique filters out the edge of the shadow map by approximating the shadow test using exponential function that involves three subjects: the depth value rendered by the light source, the actual depth value that is being tested against, and the constant value defined by the user to control the softness of the shadow
  • Adaptive Shadow Map with Parallax Correction Cache - this is based on the article "Parallax-Corrected Cached Shadow Maps" by Pavlo Turchyn in GPU Zen 2. It adaptively chooses which light source view to be used when rendering a shadow map based on a hiearchical grid structure. The grid structure is constantly updated depending on the user's point of view and it uses caching system that only renders uncovered part of the scene. The algorithm greatly reduce shadow aliasing that is normally found in traditional shadow map due to insufficient resolution. Pavlo Turchyn's paper from GPU Pro 2 added an additional improvement by implementing multi resolution filtering, a technique that approximates larger size PCF kernel using multiple mipmaps to achieve cheap soft shadow. He also describes how he integrated a Parallax Correction Cache to Adaptive Shadow Map, an algorithm that approximates moving sun's shadow on static scene without rendering tiles of shadow map every frame. The algorithm is generally used in an open world game to approximate the simulation of day & night’s shadow cycle more realistically without too much CPU/GPU cost.
  • Signed Distance Field Soft Shadow - this is based on Daniel Wright's Siggraph 2015 @EpicShaders presentation. To achieve real time SDF shadow, we store the distance to the nearest surface for every unique Meshes to a 3D volume texture atlas. The Mesh SDF is generated offline using triangle ray tracing, and half precision float 3D volume texture atlas is accurate enough to represent 3D meshes with SDF. The current implementation only supports rigid meshes and uniform transformations (non-uniform scale is not supported). An approximate cone intersection can be achieved by measuring the closest distance of a passed ray to an occluder which gives us a cheap soft shadow when using SDF.

To achieve high-performance, the playground runs on our signature rendering architecture called Triangle Visibility Buffer. The step that generates the SDF data also uses this architecture.

Click on the following screenshot to see a movie:

Signed Distance Field Soft Shadow Map

The following PC screenshots are taken on Windows 10 with a AMD RX550 GPU (driver 19.7.1) with a resolution of 1920x1080.

Exponential Shadow Maps:

Light and Shadow Playground - Exponential Shadow Map

Adaptive Shadow Map with Parallax Correction Cache

Adaptive Shadow Map with Parallax Correction Cache

Signed Distance Field Soft Shadow:

Signed Distance Field Soft Shadow Map

Signed Distance Field Soft Shadows - Debug Visualization

Signed Distance Field Soft Shadow Map

The following shots show Signed Distance Field Soft Shadows running on iMac with a AMD RADEON Pro 580

Signed Distance Field Soft Shadow Map

Signed Distance Field Soft Shadow Map

The following shots show Signed Distance Field Soft Shadows running on XBOX One:

Signed Distance Field Soft Shadow Map

Signed Distance Field Soft Shadow Map

Signed Distance Field Soft Shadow Map

Readme for Signed Distance Field Soft Shadow Maps:

To generate the SDF Mesh data you should select “Signed Distance Field” as the selected shadow type in the Light and Shadow Playground. There is a button called “Generate Missing SDF” and once its clicked, it shows a progress bar that represents the remaining SDF mesh objects utilized for SDF data generation. This process is multithreaded, so the user can still move around the scene while waiting for the SDF process to be finished. This is a long process and it could consume up to 8+ hours depending on your CPU specs. To check how many SDF objects there are presently in the scene, you can mark the checkbox "Visualize SDF Geometry On The Scene".

9a. Hybrid Ray-Traced Shadows

This unit test was build by Kostas Anagnostou @KostasAAA to show how to ray trace shadows without using a ray tracing API like DXR / RTX. It should run on all GPUs (not just NVIDIA RTX GPUs) and the expectation is that it should run comparable with a DXR / RTX based version even on a NVIDIA RTX GPU. That means the users of your game do not have to buy a NVIDIA RTX GPU to enjoy HRT shadows :-) Hybrid Ray Traced Shadows

10. Pixel-Projected Reflections

This unit test shows reflections that are ray traced. It is an implementation of the papers Optimized pixel-projected reflections for planar reflectors and IMPLEMENTATION OF OPTIMIZED PIXEL-PROJECTED REFLECTIONS FOR PLANAR REFLECTORS

Image of the Pixel-Projected Reflections Unit test

11. Multi-GPU (Driver support only on PC Windows)

This unit test shows a typical VR Multi-GPU configuration. One eye is rendered by one GPU and the other eye by the other one.

Image of the Multi-GPU Unit test

12. The Forge switching between Vulkan and DirectX 12 during Run-time (Windows PC-only)

This unit test shows how to switch between the Vulkan and DirectX 12 graphics API during run-time.

Image of the The Forge Switching Unit test

13. imGUI integration unit test

This unit test shows how the integration of imGui with a wide range of functionality.

Image of the imGui Integration in The Forge

14. Order-Independent Transparency unit test

This unit test compares various Order-Indpendent Transparency Methods. In the moment it shows:

15. Wave Intrinsics unit test

This unit test shows how to use the new wave intrinsics. Supporting Windows with DirectX 12 / Vulkan, Linux with Vulkan and macOS / iOS.

Image of the Wave Intrinsics unit test in The Forge

16. Ray Tracing Unit Test

Ray Tracing API unit test, showing how the cross-platfrom Ray Tracing Interface running on Windows, Ubuntu with Vulkan RTX, macOS and iOS

PC Windows 10 RS5, DirectX12, GeForce RTX 2070, Driver version 418.81 1080p: Ray Tracing on PC With DXR

PC Ubuntu Vulkan RTX, GeForce RTX 2070, Driver Version 418.56 1080p Ray Tracing on PC Ubuntu with Vulkan RTX

Mac Mini with Intel Core i5 3GHz cpu with integrated graphics Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Part No. MRTT2RU/A) with resolution 3440x1440: Ray Tracing on macOS

iPad 6th Generation iOS 12.1.3 (16D39) with a resolution of 2048x1536 Ray Tracing on iOS

16a. Sphere Tracing

This unit test was originally posted on ShaderToy by Inigo Quilez and Sopyer. It shows how a scene is ray marched with shadows, reflections and AO

Image of the Sphere Tracing  unit test in The Forge

17. Entity Component System Test

This unit test shows how to use the high-performance entity component system in The Forge. This unit test is based on a ECS system that we developed internally for tools.

Image of the Entity Component System unit test in The Forge

18. Ozz Playback Animation

This unit test shows how to playback a clip on a rig.

Image of Playback Animation in The Forge

19. Ozz Playback Blending

This unit test shows how to blend multiple clips and play them back on a rig.

Image of Playback Blending in The Forge

20. Ozz Joint Attachment

This unit test shows how to attach an object to a rig which is being posed by an animation.

Image of Ozz Joint Attachment in The Forge

21. Ozz Partial Blending

This unit test shows how to blend clips having each only effect a certain portion of joints.

Image of Ozz Partial Blending in The Forge

22. Ozz Additive Blending

This unit test shows how to introduce an additive clip onto another clip and play the result on a rig.

Image of Ozz Additive Blending in The Forge

23. Ozz Baked Physics

This unit test shows how to use a scene of a physics interaction that has been baked into an animation and play it back on a rig.

Image of Ozz Baked Physics in The Forge

24. Ozz Multi Threading

This unit test shows how to animate multiple rigs simultaneously while using multi-threading for the animation updates.

Image of Ozz Multi Threading in The Forge

25. Ozz Skinning

This unit test shows how to use skinning with Ozz

Image of the Ozz Skinning unit test

26. Ozz Inverse Kinematic

This unit test shows how to use a Aim and a Two bone IK solvers

Aim IK Ozz Aim IK

Two Bone IK Ozz Two Bone IK

27. Audio Integration of SoLoud

We integrated SoLoad. Here is a unit test that allow's you make noise ...

Audio Integration

Examples

There is an example implementation of the Triangle Visibility Buffer as covered in various conference talks. Here is a blog entry that details the implementation in The Forge.

Image of the Visibility Buffer

Tools

Below are screenshots and descriptions of some of the tools we integrated.

Microprofiler

We integrated the Micro Profiler into our code base by replacing the proprietary UI with imGUI and simplified the usage. Now it is much more tightly and consistently integrated in our code base.

Here are screenshots of the Microprofiler running the Visibility Buffer on PC:

Microprofiler

Microprofiler

Microprofiler

Microprofiler

Here are screenshots of the Microprofiler running a unit test on iOS:

Microprofiler

Microprofiler

Microprofiler

Check out the Wikipage for an explanation on how to use it.

Shader Translator

We provide a shader translator, that translates one shader language -a superset of HLSL called Forge Shader Language (FLS) - to the target shader language of all our target platforms. That includes the console and mobile platforms as well. We expect this shader translator to be an easier to maintain solution for smaller game teams because it allows to add additional data to the shader source file with less effort. Such data could be for example a bucket classification or different shaders for different capability levels of the underlying platform, descriptor memory requirements or resource memory requirements in general, material info or just information to easier pre-compile pipelines. The actual shader compilation will be done by the native compiler of the target platform.

How to use the Shader Translator

Releases / Maintenance

Confetti will prepare releases when all the platforms are stable and running and push them to this GitHub repository. Up until a release, development will happen on internal servers. This is to sync up the console, mobile, macOS and PC versions of the source code.

Products

We would appreciate it if you could send us a link in case your product uses The Forge. Here are the ones we received so far:

StarVR One SDK

The Forge is used to build the StarVR One SDK:

StarVR

Torque 3D

The Forge is used as the rendering framework in Torque 3D:

Torque 3D

Star Wars Galaxies Level Editor

SWB is an editor for the 2003 game 'Star Wars Galaxies' that can edit terrains, scenes, particles and import/export models via FBX. The editor uses an engine called 'atlas' that will be made open source in the future. It focuses on making efficient use of the new graphics APIs (with help from The-Forge!), ease-of-use and terrain rendering.

SWB Level Editor

Writing Guidelines

For contributions to The Forge we apply the following writing guidelines:

User Group Meetings

There will be a user group meeting during GDC. In case you want to organize a user group meeting in your country / town at any other point in time, we would like to support this. We could send an engineer for a talk.

Support for Education

In case your School / College / University uses The Forge for education, we would like to support this as well. We could send an engineer or help create material. So far the following schools use The Forge for teaching:

Breda University of Applied Sciences

        Contact:
        Jeremiah van Oosten 
        Monseigneur Hopmansstraat 1
        4817 JT Breda

Ontario Tech University

        Contact:
        Andrew Hogue
        Ontario Tech University
        SIRC 4th floor
        2000 Simcoe St N
        Oshawa, ON, L1H 7K4

Open-Source Libraries

The Forge utilizes the following Open-Source libraries:

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