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Asteroids sample with single-threaded rendering was created in this release:

• Asteroids sample now implements fully-functional rendering of the random-generated asteroids field rotating around a planet, but rendering is currently single-threaded (closed #31)
  • Asteroid mesh generation based on subdivided icosahedron with perlin-noise randomization.
  • Asteroid tri-planar texture arrays generation with perlin-noise and mip-levels implemented.
  • Asteroids orbiting simulation implemented with restoring its state after device reset.
  • Planet rendering implemented.
• Graphics Core API new features:
  • Addressable resource bindings are supported to allow binding to variable chunks of large buffer to program arguments (closed #41):
    • Program Resource Bindings now support byte-offset specification for addressable resources.
    • Buffer resource can be created with addressable flag to be used in such bindings.
  • Texture arrays are now supported (closed #43).
  • Texture mip-map levels generation is now available (closed #44).
  • Render Command List now supports rendering given subset from vertex/index buffers.
• Graphics Extensions and Helpers new features:
  • Icosahedron and geosphere mesh generation is added to Mesh primitives (closed #42).
  • Sphere mesh now supports correct texture coordinates generation for spheric texture mapping.
  • Uber-mesh was added to merge multiple meshes in a single index and vertex buffers.
  • Multi-octave perlin-noise generator was added.
  • Mesh-Buffers extension now supports rendering multiple subsets from Uber-mesh and Textured Mesh-Buffers extension supports per-subset texturing.
• External modules added:
  • Perlin Noise library
  • DirectXTex library
• Build infrastructure:
  • Added build options to enable ITT instrumentation and shaders code symbols.
  • Fixed application properties in plist/rc files.
  • Added build-numbers setup in Azure builds.
  • Fixed multiple shaders handling in one application/library.
• Refactoring and optimizations:
  • Data::ParallelFor reworked based on std::async and std::future, instead of std::thread.
  • Optimized resource bindings creation, Program::ResourceBindings now can be created in parallel.
  • Optimized CPU overhead of applying Program::ResourceBindings::Apply
  • Optimized DirectX command lists by eliminating excessive input assembler calls and resource binding calls as well.
  • Instrumentation module moved under Data, Kit module moved under Graphics.