Here's a great video explaining/showing why the common CG practice of plugging smudge/fingerprints/dirt/whatever maps into roughness is wrong and why it should be done using material layering instead. This video is really well-made!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW4L...
always a classic
Good luck with this project! This seems like software that needs to exist.
Today I discovered that my int-to-float handling code is IEEE-753.99993896484375 compliant.
I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code.
(And yes it's really been 10 years 👴).
therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...
🚀 New in Toolbag 5.02: Improved Ray Tracing Performance
Dense scenes are now easier to handle with smarter VRAM management:
✅ Auto backend switching
✅ Compression for high-poly stability
✅ Adjustable VRAM budget
✅ No relaunch needed
👉 Download Now: marmoset.co
Finally snapped: made a Vulkan layer that auto-labels objects with a stack trace at creation time. Now the validation layer can just tell me what I forgot to release on vkDestroyDevice :)
MegaLights slides were just posted online. There's a bunch of details in slide notes if you're curious how our new Stochastic Direct Lighting solution works, why we made it and want to learn a bit about the problem space.
I like tonemapping because you read a few thousand words of text and then basically copy-paste a single short function and move on with your life.
📢 Master Toolbag 5’s bevel shader & speed up your 3D workflow with our new guide!
Learn how to:
🟢 Skip extra control loops
🟢 Stay non-destructive
🟢 Tweak bevels w/ materials or vertex colors
🟢 Bake bevels
🟢 Mix sub-d, booleans & CAD
🔗 Read Now: marmoset.co/posts/revolu...
🌠 Craft striking 3D art with our masterclass guide by Pete McNally on displacement materials in Toolbag. Bring depth to your art by combining the displacement shader with subdivision, baking, material layering, & triplanar projection.
🔗 Read Now: https://marmoset.co/posts/displacement-materials-i…
5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:
