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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘2D’, page 1:

Game Graphics 101: Rendering 2D on GPU. Shaders

posted August 29, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Using 3D engine can improve your 2D picture dramatically.”
Another Quote:	“Strictly speaking, “shader” is a program which is executed for each “vertex” or each “pixel””
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posted August 16, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“If you’re using double buffering AND perform buffer swap in sync with the V-Sync signal, your monitor will show your game just as a movie projector with shutter would show a cartoon in the cinema”
Another Quote:	“I’ve seen a pretty minimal 2D engine written from scratch at a cost of 4-6 person-weeks”
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posted August 8, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“when trying to scale vector image to VERY small pixel sizes – you might get problems”
Another Quote:	“Internally, JPEG uses a close cousin of a Fourier Transform, which works over 8×8 pixel blocks.”
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posted August 2, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“you MUST NOT edit any of intermediate files directly”
Another Quote:	“How will I implement automation?”
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posted November 23, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Making 3D work is not easy to start with, but making it look good is a major challenge.”
Another Quote:	“In such cases of dual visual interfaces, it is paramount to have Logic-to-Graphics layer as described above”
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posted August 3, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Abstract:	2D scaling is a headache.
Quote:	“For us (as developers) it is important to know that the difference does exist, and that we should be ready to store graphics with larger sizes even when we personally don’t see the need to do it.”
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