Alex Harte

Graphics Programmer, @TheForge_FX. Sharks Fan. Movies, Music, Hockey, and Formula 1. Opinions are my own.

[Alex Harte @alexharte_dev]

Documenting this, my school called me legendary.

[DigiPen @DigiPenNews]

The legendary #DigiPenDragon @alexharte_dev live-Tweeted today's Kerry Davis guest talk. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ to learn more about Kerry's origin story, his experiences at #Valve, and a #VR #gamedev case study in... opening doors?

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

[1/2] Here is a demo of a simple, completely unoptimized terminal renderer I wrote over a few days. Supports scrollback, line wrapping, Unicode combining, RTL-over-LTR, multicolor fonts, changing fonts on the fly, etc.

It runs at several thousand FPS.

https://t.co/mS87g3sEvb

[The Forge @TheForge_FX]

Release 1.48 - Aura | New FSL Shader Language Translator | Run-time API Switching | Variable Rate Shading | MSAA | OpenGL ES 2 Update | PVS Studio
Read more at

https://t.co/uHNbsaoxo9
https://t.co/1WEM3WTgzc

@IntelGraphics
@AMDGaming
@NVIDIAGameDev
@VulkanAPI
@DirectX12
@Apple

[https://mastodon.social/@vitaut @vzverovich]

Me: can we have modern C++?
Mom: we have modern C++ at home
Modern C++ at home:

[The Forge @TheForge_FX]

Release 1.47 - OpenGL ES 2.0 Android support | Device Reset Support | DRED / Breadcrumb support | Lua driven functional tests | DX11 refactor | YUV support through Vulkan

https://t.co/uHNbsaoxo9

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year from The Forge Interactive Team!

[The Forge @TheForge_FX]

Release 1.46 - October 1st, 2020 - Supergiant's Hades | Windows Management | AMD FX Stochastic SS Reflection
Hades game engine was built with The Forge. Read more at

https://t.co/uHNbsaoxo9

@IntelGraphics @AMDGaming @SupergiantGames @NVIDIAGameDev
@VulkanAPI

Nintendo Switch:

[Alex Harte @alexharte_dev]

https://t.co/wUSW287EWQ

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

BFGPU.

https://t.co/L65kCKtFUl

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

So, 50 years old now. I am down a point of Str and Dex from my younger days, but I'm a more capable engineer than ever. I'm noticing more people in their 70s that seem sharp and spry, so I'm looking forward to at least a couple more decades of relevance.

[The Forge @TheForge_FX]

Release 1.45 - TressFX | File System Rewrite
Upgraded TressFX (Red hair came out well) and rewrote the file system. Also many small improvements to Android.

https://t.co/uHNbsaoxo9

@gamingonlinux
@NVIDIAGameDev
@AMDGaming
@VulkanAPI
@raytracing
@ARM
@phoronix

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

For programming almost full time in C++, it is interesting how few templates I actually write. I have probably had some years with zero templates. A modest set get used a lot, but it is rarely a tool I reach for.

[The Forge @TheForge_FX]

Release 1.44 - Android | Linux
Made Android a first-class citizen. Most of the tests supported. Another pass on Linux. More passes on PC, macOS, XBOX'es, PS4, PS5, Switch.

https://t.co/uHNbsaoxo9

@gamingonlinux
@NVIDIAGameDev
@AMDGaming
@VulkanAPI
@raytracing
@ARM
@phoronix

[Joey de Vries @JoeyDeVriez]

It's official, Learn OpenGL is now available in print!! 🎉

Get it from » https://t.co/TOFgZyYKsL

I'm super excited, thanks everyone for all your support and feedback over the years; couldn't have done it without you!💗

I'll give away 3 copies among all retweets! 👈🏻👉🏻

[Alex Harte @alexharte_dev]

My favorite part about DOOM is the fact that the mastery upgrade for the Super Shotgun is just the Doom Slayer finally realizing that you can fire a break-action double-barrelled shotgun twice before needing to reload.

[The Forge @TheForge_FX]

Thanks for coming to our talk "Cross-Platform Ray Tracing" yesterday on the M.2 summit! Here is a link to the power-point slide deck.

https://t.co/btjPxYAEYD

https://t.co/uHNbsaoxo9

[The Forge @TheForge_FX]

The Ray Tracing Discord channel for tomorrows talk:
https://t.co/gSpL5dq6bS

[Kevin @KevinGShanks]

Has COVID-19 forced you to wear glasses and a mask at the same time?

If so, you may be entitled to condensation.

[Vulkan @VulkanAPI]

Don't miss tomorrow's Real Time Ray Tracing Summit. This free online event will present the latest information on Ray Tracing including a presentation from Khronos President, Neil Trevett.

Register: https://t.co/tVWr50Cw3b

@M2Insights #gamedev #Raytracing #RTRTSummit

[The Forge @TheForge_FX]

We are talking about "Cross-Platform Ray Tracing" on the Real-Time Ray Tracing online summit:

https://t.co/GBfMKcdqR1

June 17th, 2:15 pm .. just drop and say hi. Source code at

https://t.co/uHNbsaoxo9

@NVIDIAGameDev @AMDGaming @Apple

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I was considering the question "Is a modern CPU fast enough for essentially all 2D gfx without acceleration" and I realized that I don't actually know what hardware interface is used nowadays on desktops to render GUIs. Android draws everything with OpenGL ES, building vertex \

[LunarG @LunarGInc]

LunarG debuts GFXReconstruct, a new Vulkan API capture/replay tool -- with Vulkan SDK 1.2.141. SDK also includes DXC executable, visible VUIDs in Vulkan spec, and more! https://t.co/1oaoxTvVR6