Future Plans & Changes

This page contains a list of future plans on things to implement, change, or do research on. Unless otherwise stated, there is no implied ordering of importance to these.

Rendering

• Custom Samplers
  • Support sampler types outside of the predefined ones.
  • Likely just extend the enum with Custom*, and provide an interface for describing new samplers.

Data Management

• Research/Change - Memory Suballocation - High Priority
  • Use memory pools with custom allocator for resources below a certain size (~1MB?), instead of dedicated allocations for everything
  • Look into incorporating VMA instead of rolling our own
  • Different types of allocators?
  • How to deal with storing images and buffers in the same pool (without aliasing)
• Research/Implement - Dedicated Transfer Queues
  • On platforms that support it, this queue type can perform fast DMA data transfers over the PCIe bus asynchronous of graphics/compute ops
  • This requires dealing with queue ownership management, but could enable faster loading and streaming

Input

• Joystick inputs
• Gamepad inputs
• Virtual Keys - collections of keys and modifier masks that can be used to make key bindings