Overall Approach Setting Up The Print Buffer The “Magic” Debug Info Buffer Dealing With The String Problem A Cursed Path Packing It All Into A Buffer Reading Back On The CPU Going Beyond Printf CR LF Unless you’re fortunate enough to to be working exclusively in Cuda, debugging GPU shaders is still very much “not...
Someone wanted a more portable printf implementation, so they created one for themselves....
A little over a year ago I was looking to overhaul our shadow rendering at work in order to improve overall quality, as well as simplify the workflow for the lighting artists (tweaking biases all day isn’t fun for anybody). After doing yet another round of research into modern shadow mapping techniques, I decided to do what I...