Because you chose VS, a higher subdivision cube is needed.

#PillowBasicsEngine Blog 021

Added CMake install commands.

PillowBasics can be packed with its dependents automatically, which paved the road towards a CI/CD system.

那就睡窝（x

#PillowBasicsEngine Blog 020
Revise vertex types. Designed this alignment magic:

union
{
XMFLOAT4A vec;
struct { XMFLOAT3 vec; uint32_t value; };
}

This makes a vector align to 16 Bytes (SIMD friendly),
as the padding space won't be wasted! However, you can't write to "value" before "vec".

A nice place to have a nap w

#PillowBasicsEngine Blog 019
A day of mathematical drill rather than usual days' coding.

Derived the normal vector transform matrix;

Reviewed the quaternions and the sphere interpolation.

Wrote an article regarding quaternions.

The pic below is a glimpse of my article
( will publish it later 🤗

Tasting a new beverage 😋

(Citrus peel + hawthorn, mixed vegan tea)

I see, nice job! 😉

Unity's logging system is powerful (

Though I prefer to print them on my own GUI, especially when running a Unity game on other devices

你蓝天确实很纯净；

推（X）上互动多但是质量很低很低，Bot+水军漫天飞
已经无语惹（x

X is becoming worse and worse: ads, mad guys, angry baits... What a hell of poisoned humans.

A toxic environment ruins everything.

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Blog 018 (From X, April 3, 2026)

PillowBasics Blog has been moved to the pure BlueSky 🤗 Welcome to visit!

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Blog 017 (From X, Mar 30, 2026)
Title: Why I discontinued my blogs on X?
Warning: This tweet remains in Chinese to preserve the original feeling.

首先说明，日志停更，
背后的开发却在疯狂加速，追逐 April Release
（如下图，内行应能一眼察觉

第二，之前也说过
X上群体混杂，让我担忧付出是否有意义
（虽然也逐渐认识几位厉害推油

所以就转到地下开发惹（x
笑，推友仍可去Github仓库视察

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Blog 016 (From X, Mar 28, 2026)

I will not post any tweets about my engine here (on Musk's X) from now on. Blogs will be published on other platforms.

Maybe I will change my mind? I dunno.

Thanks to the friends who encourage me all the time!
You are always welcome w🤗

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Blog 015 (From X, Mar 28, 2026)

As the engine debut becomes closer and closer, the largest issue emerges: a lack of a suitable model set.

I don't wanna use common meshes, and I want a scene that can reflect my engine's features precisely.

Why I'm not a 3D artist 😭

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Blog 014 (From X, Mar 24, 2026)
After a tight week, the input subsystem is now ready!🤗

Highlights:
- Supports many devices: mice/keyboard/gamepad

- Mixed-mode approach: Rawinput + XInput + Message Process

- Gamepad dead zone detection + filter, all run in SIMD instructions! 😋

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Blog 013 (From X, Mar 21, 2026)
A busy week in Germany.

No matter how difficult, rain or shine, Pillow will persevere in development.

Today, I finished the IME UTF-16 input utility.

Gaming mice have a high polling rate, and frequent Ring0 switching costs. A big issue.

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Blog 012 (From X, Mar 17, 2026)

This week marks my first trip abroad.

Nothing should obstruct the PillowBasics development.

Today, I refactored the message loop to better support the Input Subsystem.

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Blog 011 (From X, Mar 12, 2026)
Just got home this afternoon.

Finished revising IPipelineState: A unified Interface design, Vulkan can use it too 😋.

IPipelineState records macros + shader stages + unique IDs

PS: Forced to have a long trip tomorrow, ramp down for a week.

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Blog 010 (From X, Mar 9, 2026)

Bindless super root signature Ver. 1 finished.
Pipeline IO data Ver. 1 finished.

A PR has also been submitted to a Microsoft repository.

Game scene management and rendering are the development focus. Immediate mesh rendering is not the priority.

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Blog 009 (From X, Mar 6, 2026)
frantically finished UnionBuffer today.

The next step is to implement Runtime Shader Compilation

Without distractions, I should achieve a makeshift rendering pipeline by the end of March.

Pillow wanna apply BF3's tile-based deferred pipeline!

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Blog 008 (From X, Mar 2, 2026)

A major overhaul of UnionBuffer; it's a unified resource class providing data memory management.

For VRAM residency, this class only exposes interfaces.

No virtual textures now; there's no need for GPU page-level management (too tired to write😭)

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Blog 007 (From X, Mar 1, 2026)

Integrating the DX12 Agility SDK and Shader Compiler in one day

This decouples the rendering backend from the Windows SDK.

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Blog 006 (From X, Feb 28, 2026)

I'm finalizing the texture information class

A Game engine is much more complex than toy renderers.
Some points:
- The “Tag” property determines the default strategy of VRAM residency.
- “BakedTex” is used for snapshots; it has no mipmaps.

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Blog 005 (From X, Feb 22, 2026)

After leaving Chengdu

First full dive into the engine’s actual rendering layer (not IR, not RHI), to do corrections and additions

Implemented a multi-threading renderer framework using C++20’s features

And tried to fix the descriptor heap mgr!

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Blog 004 (From X, Feb 20, 2026)

PillowBasics has begun developing an IR-RHI-mixed graphics command translator for the Direct3D 12 backend, which will be used to generate an ID3D12GraphicsCommandList; after that, all graphics commands will be called from the IR-RHI layer 🤗

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Blog 003 (From X, Feb 18, 2026)

PillowBasics has defined the initial graphics cmds.
Currently coding their creation functions, such as `CmdClearRenderTarget()`.

The real RHI translation work has not yet begun.

Simplified words: Still can't render a cube 😭

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Blog 002 (From X, Feb 12, 2026)

I recompiled PhysX and OpenAL with the correct configs.

That should fix them? w

Issues:
~ Win64 CRT linking options
~ The GNU Make on Android only supports a single config (causing `cmake --build --config XXX` to fail)

C++ is super torturous (

#PillowBasicsEngine
Blog 001
Hello, my morpho friends!

I'm developing my own C++20 game engine, focusing on easy-to-use and bloat-free.

Dev blogs will be posted here. If u're interested, click the hashtag!

(I used to post them on X, but as you know, X is awkward. Then I moved here!)