Classes

s&box comes with a good amount of helper classes that simplifies working with various renderer features, such as lighting, decals, depth, envmaps, g-buffer, and many others.

• 🌥️ Ambient Light
• • How to sample ambient light, DDGI/envprobe/lightmap probe/sky light priority
• 🔗 Bindless API
• • How bindless API works, how to assign a bindless texture or sampler from C# and read it from the shader
• 🎇 Decals
• • Applying decals in your custom shaders, understanding the structure of decals structured buffer, and extra data byte address buffer, reading packed buffer data, helper functions
• 👀 Depth
• • How to sample depth and get various data from it
• 🪩 Dynamic Reflections
• • Adding support for dynamic reflections to your custom shader
• 🎨 EnvMap
• • How to sample environment map probe for your custom shader
• 🌁 Fog
• • Applying fog and its separate effects, such as gradient fog, cubemap fog, and volumetric fog
• 🌍 G-Buffer
• • Everything you need to know about reading its contents, and writing to G-Buffer
• 💡 Light
• • Iterating all light sources in your custom shader, understanding light data, sampling shadows, light contribution types, and separatae directional light data
• 🚝 Motion
• 📉 Procedural Effects
• • Optional library with procedural noises and patterns
• 🥢 Screen Space Tracing
• 🕳️ Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
• ✂️ Texture Sheets