The Next Generation | Gen12 Renderer:
- Gen12(Unrelated to dx12) is a new renderer to move on from DX11.
- A top down re-implementation of the rendering engine, massively reduces CPU submission times.
- End goal of Gen12 is to allow CIG to utilize Vulkan Graphics API.
- AI upscaling, raytracing, multi-view rendering (VR), Linux support, etc.
- Every single graphics feature needed to be rewritten and support every single feature in production.
- Engine is currently running in a mixed mode, most of the code is running on legacy and ports onto gen12, adding an overhead.
- First version of Gen12 is nearly done being ported and attempting to launch in 3.18 (NOT a promise).
- First implementation will be a "it just works :Todd:"  version with big performance improvements between then and Vulkan release.
- Live demo at 11:15 showing a 33% improvement in framerate with 33% less API calls.
- 12:38 update capture demo, displaying a history of render load and usage.
- Numbers are not final, optimizations have not begun yet.
- Once Gen12 is ready, future tasks are Vulkan, RenderThread, full multithreading, async compute, etc.