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TiledLighting11 DirectX® 11 SDK Sample

This sample provides an example implementation of two tile-based light culling methods: Forward+ and Tiled Deferred.  

Both methods support high numbers of dynamic lights while maintaining performance. They utilize a Direct3D® 11 compute shader (DirectCompute 5.0) to divide the screen into tiles and quickly cull lights against those tiles.

In addition to standard point and spot lights, this sample supports shadow-casting lights (point and spot). Moreover, it extends tiled light culling to work with alpha-blended geometry. It can also spawn virtual point lights (VPLs) to approximate one-bounce global illumination, as seen in AMD’s Leo Demo.

Requirements

  • AMD Radeon™ GCN-based GPU (HD 7000 series or newer).
  • 64-bit Windows® 7 (SP1 with the Platform Update), Windows® 8.1, or Windows® 10.
  • Visual Studio® 2012, Visual Studio® 2013, or Visual Studio® 2015.

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