vladislavbelov

So you mean pixel perfect UI, that fits into pixels without rounding/scaling. And there's important note: you don't need to design UI for 4K, the main thing is ratio. That's why I mentioned that if you use sizes for UI elements divisible by 4 then you can fit a UI designed for 720p to any higher resolution. It only requires to choose correct image, like 32x32 texture for 1080p and 64x64 texture for 2160p. But you don't need to change its layout.

Nope, but related. I don't want to spoiler and make any promises. Because it's not the priority for A25, but I hope.

Then you swapped titles Because in 0 A.D. we have a window scaled by system (that means it scales UI as well) or via gui.scale, since we don't support Hi-DPI (2K, 4K) yet (have another things in mind x) ). You mean resolution or ratio?

Actually I'm resting when writing that kind of shaders. This one took about half an hour AFAIK.

Vector is good, but it's good for flat and simple design. Pretty usual for AAA shooters and actions. Not all elements should be 4K, I'd say only big pictures, like the helmet. There is another way to save memory: 4K masks with lower-res textures. Low-res texture for colors and 4K mask (in 3D it's called detail texture) to make it more sharp on edges or add some tiny details.

Why do think so?

Another reason to wait for A25

Is it going to be scalable? Because it might be hard to move these nicely and tightly packed elements for a different display ratio.

I have in mind a much more cheaper shader for that

Another shader that shouldn't be used in the game (completely GLSL, no C++). Font is stored in the shader itself encoded by ivec4, colors are chosen as average and a little deviation from it excluding average neighborhood.

What kind of tasks do you prefer? Usually it's useful to get some basic knowledge how the engine works first. I always can create a bunch of tasks to improve small things that can make a person doing these tasks more familiar with the engine. But these tasks don't have a lot of creativity freedom, they're more educational and relaxing (sometimes) than some hard-work research.

I have the famous habit: I never look at explosions and battles x) If answering seriously, for me to make renderer slow locally I need to put all units together on screen. But it rarely happens, more than 50% of all units are spreaded all over a map.

It depends on your camera position. If you're not looking at a battle then pathfinder is more expensive.

Binding is a very interesting area to measure and discuss. Approximated numbers of 7 years old talk: For pretty old card you can switch up to 5K shaders per frame. And the interesting part is that sometimes the shader switching might be faster than using a single shader, especially on 2K/4K displays, because of branching/limited texture cache.

Preliminary results for our statistics: 800x600: 0.31% 1024x768: 0.88% 1280x720: 2.28% 1280x800: 2.11% 1280x1024: 1.80% 1360x768: 1.49% 1366x768: 21.68% 1440x900: 4.52% 1536x864: 4.43% 1600x900: 5.05% 1680x1050: 2.68% 1792x1120: 0.39% 1920x1080: 37.87% 1920x1200: 1.67% 2048x1152: 0.44% 2560x1080: 0.79% 2560x1440: 5.70% 3440x1440: 0.92% 3840x2160: 1.40% Other: 2.15%

It's better to draw:

That texture doesn't have mipmaps, because it's generated each frame.

You mean refraction/reflection maps?

It'd be good if you'd upload it on the phab.

Actually Shlick approximation de facto is a standard in the graphics and games industry. And even more it's imperfect for some cases on modern hardware. People try to find more accurate approximations: https://belcour.github.io/blog/research/publication/2020/08/26/brdf-fresnel-decompo.html It's true life. But I'm working on water refactoring. And I've already removed a bunch of in-place hacks.

You can always check your frame by capturing it with RenderDoc or something similiar.

Yay! Down with workarounds!

The same as skies, they both are reflection, refraction and absorption. I don't see much difference in terms of math and energy conservation, ambient color or cubemap is another hack to make things look more realistic. And on modern hardware you can find pretty cheap techniques to get the second reflection (beside ray-tracing).

It happens in our code, and usually it's just a workaround to make it look better. You haven't seen the water one before I've done a cleanup for it.

I suppose it contradicts to your patch for the current game. Because you decrease ambient from skies for vertical surfaces. But AO is used for any kind of indirect light, including sun direct light reflected from some surfaces, which is more powerful than skies ambient.