A couple weeks I added to FMXutils repository a conversion of the “Compute Boids” flocking demo.
This builds upon the WebGPU driver for FireMonkey, but uses a dedicated class where the Compute & rendering shaders are hosted.
Two ping-pong buffers are used to store and updated particle data, which are used to mimic the flocking behavior of birds.
The FMXUtils repository now implements support for GPU Buffers for Delphi FMX (with DX11 or WebGPU).
Adding GPU buffers required some trickery and hackery, but the speedups can be massive: 2x to 3x speedups on low-end integrated GPUs, with reports of 20x (twenty times) speedups on discrete GPUs!
I tried to make the support as easy and backward compatible as possible, while dancing around missing private fields and non-virtual methods. (more…)
Just a quick post to announce the Delphi-WebGPU repository.
What ?
Why ?
To take the words from webgpu-headers:
While WebGPU is a JavaScript API made for the Web, it is a good tradeoff of ergonomic, efficient and portable graphics API. (more…)