US 2004/0003370 A1 · Systems and methods for implementing shader-driven compilation of rendering assets

Abstract

Art asset rendering systems and methods in which pre-processing is performed in a compilation process. Geometric data are processed in the compilation process with knowledge of associated shading programs. The data are converted into data structures targeted directly to a target hardware platform, and a code stream is assembled that describes the manipulations required to render these data structures. The compiler includes a front end configured to read the geometric data and attributes (an art asset) output from a 3D modeling package and shaders in a platform independent form and perform platform-independent optimizations, and a back end configured to perform platform-specific optimizations and generate platform-targeted data structures and code streams.

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Dependent claims

A method of generating optimized code for rendering an art asset at runtime in a computer, comprising:

providing an art asset and one or more render methods associated with the art asset to a front end of a compiler;
generating one or more packets in the front end of the compiler, each packet representing a fragment of the art asset and an individual call to one of the one or more render methods;
and
generating optimized code and data streams in a back end of the compiler using the one or more packets, wherein the optimized code and data streams are used to render the art asset on a display at runtime.

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Systems and methods for implementing shader-driven compilation of rendering assets

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Systems and methods for implementing shader-driven compilation of rendering assets

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Abstract

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