Modern OpenGL: Advanced Pipeline and Performance

• Introduction
• Advanced Rendering and Effects
• Advanced Pipeline and Performance

This training explores strategies to increase the performance of new and existing OpenGL code, with multi-pass rendering and use of uniform buffers, shader storage buffers and indirect drawing to reduce driver overhead.

Course Contents

• Cost of state changes, batching and sorting
• Culling, occlusion queries, spatial data-structures
• Debugging and profiling OpenGL via extensions, timers and tools
• Synchronization and timer queries
• Buffering and streaming strategies for large data sets
• Instanced rendering and multi-draw indirect
• Uniform and shader storage buffer objects
• Shader subroutines
• The OpenGL memory model and image load/store
• Geometry and tessellation shaders
• Transform Feedback and Compute shaders

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Course Information

• Target audience: Developers wanting to create or improve existing rendering code, using every technique at their disposal to understand and maximise performance, and extract the full potential from their hardware.
• Pre-requisites: Developers already working with OpenGL, comfortable with the basics of specifying geometry, writing basic shaders and working with image data.
• Duration: 3 Days

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