Tools Engineer: Core Game Development - Computer Graphics

Pipeline

• Object, parent, global, camera, projection, viewport transforms
• Point un-projection into rays, rect un-projection into frustums
• Ray/frustum instersection vs. point, sphere, line, triangle
• Clip space and screen-space primitive clipping

Rendering

• Vertex buffers and common vertex attributes
• Backface culling and winding order
• Depth buffers, depth-test renderstate, depth prepass
• Alpha values and blending functions
• Sorting for rendering passes
• Command buffers and immediate/deferred contexts
• Examples of typical passes (as parts of a forward vs deferred frame)

Shaders

• General graphics shader types and their args and results
• Fixed function GPU hardware and how they speed up passes
• How branches work, what they cost
• Async compute