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superez_1.4.1.mp4

Editor Object Selection
- Now when you click an object (either from viewport or ImGUI panel) it gets highlighted
  - Used the simples ripple-like highlight pass
Compute Shader Support
- Introduced the new Render Pass that represents a compute shader function
- Added support for Compute Shader compilation, binding and dispatching
Editor Flythrough Camera
- Changed the previous Gimbal camera with the Free camera
  - Much more convenient for editing

ImGUI messed up after scene reload
- When you wanted to load new scene, the whole ImGUI looked completely wrong
- The problem was that I was deleting all the texture resources, but kept the resource views
- The fix was to split the descriptor heaps into static and dynamic, and only deleting dynamic part during the scene loading

2025-07-03.05-02-18.mp4

Simple Texturing
- Each object is now rendered with a corresponding albedo texture
- Textures are being loaded from files on hard drive and uploaded to GPU
- Extended the resource binding mechanism
Scene Reloading
- You can switch scenes in the real-time
  - Added the State Machine to the Engine to support this
- There is a new menu bar that allows you to select a scene file to load
ImGui Support
- Now the engine support the ImGui as GitHub submodule
  - Added a separate Render Pass and Input Listener
- I've added a side panel that lists all of the game objects
  - Once selected, it will display some details about the object
Basic Scene Graph
- Scenes are now loaded from XML scene description file
  - Each entry has a name, geometry and a texture
Shader Wrapper Class
- Quality of life improvement
  - Got rid of another raw DirectX class in favor of the abstraction
More info on the DevLog: TODO

Release-1.3-Demo.mp4

Loading Geometry From File
- You can now load scenes from Wavefront files
Flexible Vertex Buffers
- Each vertex element will end up in separate Vertex Buffer
- Each Render Pass can pick and chose elements it needs
- It improves flexibility and allows to easily extend vertex definition
Resource Handles
- Now each resource type will have its own handle
- A handle is a smartes index into the resrouce array, with some basic safety check
Drawing Multiple Meshes
- Each Render Pass has access to all the meshes from the scenes
Input Handling
- Added a Raw Input handling to support keyboard and mouse
- Used the Observer patter to easily extend with for instance game pad
Camera System Rework
- Merged perspective and orthographic cameras
- Moved rotation fields to the base class
- Added Blender-like handling (rotation with middle mouse button and zoom)
- Added arbitray front, side and top camera position
- Posibility to smoothly switch between orthographic and perspective camera
Orbit Camera
- Fixed a lot of issues (flipping, gimball lock) by switching to spherical coordinates
- Previously was using Euler angles and rotation matrices, but there were issues
More info on the DevLog: https://bboczula.pl/2025/07/02/superez-1-3-devlog/

Release-1.2-Demo.mp4

Camera Handling
- Introduced new classes for camera management and camera controllers.
- Implemented a system to pass camera data efficiently to shaders.
Basic Camera Unit Tests
- Added a new Google Test project to support unit testing.
- Implemented unit tests for both the camera and arcball camera controller.
- Depth Testing for Render Targets
- Implemented depth testing support for Render Targets, enhancing rendering accuracy.
Drawless Render Pass
- Introduced support for drawless render passes, enabling non-drawing passes like copy passes to function seamlessly.
Support for PIX Markers
- Added PIX markers support to improve debugging and performance analysis within PIX.
Basic Shader Pipeline
- Refactored the shader creation process, extracting it from the Render Context for better modularity and maintainability.
More info on the DevLog: https://bboczula.pl/2025/03/16/superez-1-2-devlog/