Alexander Malyutin alexmalyutindev

How to use GitHub releases as markdown image storage

I often uploaded images to GitHub issues and used their URLs in markdown files (such as README.md).
This method was convenient since it didn’t require adding the images to the repository, and each image had a unique URL.
However, in (probably) March 2025, GitHub changed their policy so that accessing images uploaded to issues now requires cookie-based authentication.
This applies even to images uploaded to issues in public repositories.

As a result, the benefit of 'anyone who knows the URL can access the image' has been lost.

From time to time I receive questions on the depth aware upsampling mentioned in the INSIDE-rendering presentation: https://loopit.dk/rendering_inside.pdf#page=39

The goal of this technique is to take the texture-output from a half-resolution pass, containing the results of sampling volumetric fog - and scale it up to full resolution. This presents two challenges:

Making sure samples from the low-resolution buffer, do not spill on top of foreground objects in the high-resolution buffer
Making sure the samples in the volumetric fog can be properly accumulated by TAA after upsampling

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
2013 - Performance Optimization Guidelines and the GPU Architecture behind them
2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
2015 - Render Hell 2.0
2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon

	// https://forum.unity.com/threads/clear-old-texture-references-from-materials.318769/

	#define UPDATING_FLOAT_TO_INT
	#if UNITY_EDITOR
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using UnityEngine;
	using UnityEditor;

	public class MaterialPropertyCleaner : EditorWindow {
	private const float REMOVE_BUTTON_WIDTH = 60;

	Shader "Name" {

	Properties {

	_Name ("display name", Range (min, max)) = number
	_Name ("display name", Float) = number
	_Name ("display name", Int) = number
	_Name ("display name", Color) = (number,number,number,number)
	_Name ("display name", Vector) = (number,number,number,number)

	/*
	MIT License

	Copyright (c) 2021 Chillu

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is

	// Warning, because of a bug the code below marks UnityInput.hlsl and Lighting.hlsl as imported but only adds the required functionality
	// Reason = error with redefined variables

	//===============================================================================================================================================================================
	// Stripped down version of: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ScriptableRenderPipeline/blob/master/com.unity.render-pipelines.lightweight/ShaderLibrary/UnityInput.hlsl
	//===============================================================================================================================================================================
	#ifndef LIGHTWEIGHT_SHADER_VARIABLES_INCLUDED
	#define LIGHTWEIGHT_SHADER_VARIABLES_INCLUDED

	// Light Indices block feature

	/* MIT License

	Copyright (c) 2022 Alex Holkner

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

	//This API to create new nodes has been deprecated in early 2019.
	//This means that if you are on a more recent version of Shader Graph and Universal Render Pipeline, you should use instead a pre-made node, which acts like a container that allows you to inject custom HLSL code into Shader Graph without the need to create a node from scratch.
	//Please use the new node, not the C# API described here.
	//
	//You can find more details about that node in the Docs: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/[email protected]/manual/Custom-Function-Node.html
	//I also blogged about it here: https://connect.unity.com/p/adding-your-own-hlsl-code-to-shader-graph-the-custom-function-node
	//
	//If you are still on a very old version of Lightweight Render Pipeline (you shouldn't!!), you can still see the C# code for this custom node by rolling back to a previous version.