Diligent Engine - v2.5.5

This release packs a lot of new features and improvements.

New High-Level Rendering components

• Post Processing effects:
  • Screen-Space Reflections
    
  • Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion
    
  • Depth of Field
    
  • Bloom
    
  • Temporal Anti-Aliasing
• Hydrogent, an implementation of the Hydra rendering API in Diligent Engine.
  
• PBR Material Improvements:
  • Clear-Coat
    
  • Sheen (aka fuzz)
    
  • Iridescence (aka thin layer)
    
  • Anisotropy
    

New Samples and Tutorials

• Tutorial27 - Post Processing
  

• USD Viewer
  

API Changes

• Added MultiDraw and MultiDrawIndexed commands (API254006)
• Added SerializationDeviceGLInfo struct (API254005)
  • The ValidateShaders member allows disabling time-consuming shader compilation
• Replaced AnisotropicFilteringSupported member of SamplerProperties struct with MaxAnisotropy (API254004)
• Added TextureSubresourceViews device feature (API254003)
• Added device context rendering statistics (API254002)
  • Added DeviceContextStats struct
  • Added IDeviceContext::ClearStats and IDeviceContext::GetStats methods
• IDeviceContext::TransitionShaderResources: removed unused pPipelineState parameter (API254001)