HeapsIO/hide
Jan 2025 – Oct 2025
10 Months active
Languages Used
HaxeHLSL
Technical Skills
Code RefactoringColor SpacesGraphics ProgrammingShader Development3D Graphics3D Rendering
borisrp
PROFILE
Borisrp
Boris worked on the HeapsIO/hide repository, delivering a range of rendering, editor, and engine improvements over ten months. He developed features such as local volumetric lighting with fog, GPU-based particle batching, and dynamic screen-space reflection optimizations, focusing on both visual fidelity and performance stability. His technical approach emphasized shader development, code refactoring, and modularization, using Haxe and HLSL to modernize color pipelines, standardize math utilities, and enhance collision detection. Boris also addressed stability and usability by fixing bugs in trail rendering, editor UI refresh, and shadow handling, demonstrating depth in graphics programming and maintainable software engineering practices throughout.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
57%Features
Repository Contributions
37Total
Bugs
9
Commits
37
Features
12
Lines of code
2,368
Activity Months10
Your Network
13 peopleSame Organization
@shirogames.com1
Work History
October 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 focused on stabilizing rendering performance in HeapsIO/hide through device-aware SSR optimization. Delivered a dynamic SSR step cap based on screen diagonal to prevent performance spikes at steep viewing angles, ensuring SSR computations stay within a safe budget across devices. The change is backed by a dedicated commit that introduces the screen diagonal as a limit for SSR marching steps, improving consistency and user experience across form factors.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 focused on stabilizing rendering performance in HeapsIO/hide through device-aware SSR optimization. Delivered a dynamic SSR step cap based on screen diagonal to prevent performance spikes at steep viewing angles, ensuring SSR computations stay within a safe budget across devices. The change is backed by a dedicated commit that introduces the screen diagonal as a limit for SSR marching steps, improving consistency and user experience across form factors.
October 2025
September 2025
7 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025Sep 2025 performance-focused summary for HeapsIO/hide: Delivered Local Volumetric Lighting with Fog, integrating a shader-driven fog model and bounds visualization into the rendering pipeline (VolumetricOverlay pass) with code cleanup in LocalVolumetricLighting.hx. Fixed critical stability and correctness issues across the render path, including terrain shader infinite loop risk, shadow cascade rendering when shadowMode=None, GPU emitter color handling, and animation events refresh after save. These changes improved visual realism, stability, and developer tooling. Technologies demonstrated include shader programming, Haxe code hygiene, and rendering pipeline integration.
September 2025
7 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025Sep 2025 performance-focused summary for HeapsIO/hide: Delivered Local Volumetric Lighting with Fog, integrating a shader-driven fog model and bounds visualization into the rendering pipeline (VolumetricOverlay pass) with code cleanup in LocalVolumetricLighting.hx. Fixed critical stability and correctness issues across the render path, including terrain shader infinite loop risk, shadow cascade rendering when shadowMode=None, GPU emitter color handling, and animation events refresh after save. These changes improved visual realism, stability, and developer tooling. Technologies demonstrated include shader programming, Haxe code hygiene, and rendering pipeline integration.
August 2025
5 Commits • 1 Features
Aug 1, 2025Monthly summary for 2025-08: HeapsIO/hide delivered stability enhancements and SSR visual refinements that reduce build risk and improve rendering fidelity. Key outcomes include: 1) internal stability: enforce integer type for drawTriangles to prevent potential compile-time failures; 2) Screen Space Reflections (SSR) shader improvements: corrected vignetting to raytraced UVs, removal of batchSample option with always-enabled sampling, adjusted default vignetting, and depthRatio-based ghosting reductions; 3) Overall impact: more reliable builds, simplified SSR pipeline, and better user-facing visuals; 4) Technologies/skills demonstrated: type safety, shader programming, performance-conscious refactoring, and commit hygiene.
5 Commits • 1 Features
Aug 1, 2025Monthly summary for 2025-08: HeapsIO/hide delivered stability enhancements and SSR visual refinements that reduce build risk and improve rendering fidelity. Key outcomes include: 1) internal stability: enforce integer type for drawTriangles to prevent potential compile-time failures; 2) Screen Space Reflections (SSR) shader improvements: corrected vignetting to raytraced UVs, removal of batchSample option with always-enabled sampling, adjusted default vignetting, and depthRatio-based ghosting reductions; 3) Overall impact: more reliable builds, simplified SSR pipeline, and better user-facing visuals; 4) Technologies/skills demonstrated: type safety, shader programming, performance-conscious refactoring, and commit hygiene.
August 2025
July 2025
4 Commits
Jul 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-07 focused on editor UX improvements and robustness fixes in HeapsIO/hide. Delivered targeted UI refresh fixes for post-processing effects and enhanced decal material library handling. These changes improve editor reliability, reduce refresh-related issues, and enable artists to work with folder-based materials more efficiently.
July 2025
4 Commits
Jul 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-07 focused on editor UX improvements and robustness fixes in HeapsIO/hide. Delivered targeted UI refresh fixes for post-processing effects and enhanced decal material library handling. These changes improve editor reliability, reduce refresh-related issues, and enable artists to work with folder-based materials more efficiently.
June 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025: Focused on visual realism and codebase consistency for HeapsIO/hide. Delivered a dynamic fog offset in Volumetric Lighting driven by the camera height, updated shaders, and added a UI control. Standardized math utilities by migrating from std.Math to hxd.Math across the codebase, improving consistency and maintainability.
2 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025: Focused on visual realism and codebase consistency for HeapsIO/hide. Delivered a dynamic fog offset in Volumetric Lighting driven by the camera height, updated shaders, and added a UI control. Standardized math utilities by migrating from std.Math to hxd.Math across the codebase, improving consistency and maintainability.
June 2025
May 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for HeapsIO/hide focused on delivering GPU-based batching and particle emission enhancements to enable scalable, high-throughput visuals with improved resource management. The work aligns with business goals of rendering efficiency and maintainability for large-scale particle systems.
May 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for HeapsIO/hide focused on delivering GPU-based batching and particle emission enhancements to enable scalable, high-throughput visuals with improved resource management. The work aligns with business goals of rendering efficiency and maintainability for large-scale particle systems.
April 2025
1 Commits
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for HeapsIO/hide focusing on stability improvements in trail collision detection. Implemented Trail Bounds Recalculation to ensure the bounding box and culling sphere update as trail points are added or modified, improving collision accuracy and runtime robustness. This fix reduces false collision reports and strengthens gameplay fidelity during dynamic trail edits. Related commit: 4248a4a6727b9609cc973b217e25a664b7efe48d (Compute trail bounds and collider when trails is changing).
1 Commits
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for HeapsIO/hide focusing on stability improvements in trail collision detection. Implemented Trail Bounds Recalculation to ensure the bounding box and culling sphere update as trail points are added or modified, improving collision accuracy and runtime robustness. This fix reduces false collision reports and strengthens gameplay fidelity during dynamic trail edits. Related commit: 4248a4a6727b9609cc973b217e25a664b7efe48d (Compute trail bounds and collider when trails is changing).
April 2025
March 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 focused on delivering robust visuals and stable shader/rendering pipelines for HeapsIO/hide, with targeted improvements to volumetric lighting and trail rendering, plus fixes to minimize artifacts and maintain backward compatibility. Key work includes integrating a robust volumetric lighting approach, refactoring shader management, and enhancing trails, alongside fixes that reduce artifacts and stabilize rendering in edge cases. These updates improve visual quality, performance, and maintainability for customers integrating hide into their game pipelines.
March 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 focused on delivering robust visuals and stable shader/rendering pipelines for HeapsIO/hide, with targeted improvements to volumetric lighting and trail rendering, plus fixes to minimize artifacts and maintain backward compatibility. Key work includes integrating a robust volumetric lighting approach, refactoring shader management, and enhancing trails, alongside fixes that reduce artifacts and stabilize rendering in edge cases. These updates improve visual quality, performance, and maintainability for customers integrating hide into their game pipelines.
February 2025
7 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 (HeapsIO/hide) delivered key visual and stability enhancements for volumetric lighting and trails, with a targeted bug fix to improve shadow consistency. The work emphasizes business value through higher visual fidelity, more predictable rendering, and improved developer control with debug tooling.
7 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 (HeapsIO/hide) delivered key visual and stability enhancements for volumetric lighting and trails, with a targeted bug fix to improve shadow consistency. The work emphasizes business value through higher visual fidelity, more predictable rendering, and improved developer control with debug tooling.
February 2025
January 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary: Focused on color pipeline modernization in HeapsIO/hide. Delivered two major features with refactoring and modularization to simplify the rendering path and improve maintainability. Key actions include refactoring the Temporal Anti-Aliasing shader to use the new ColorSpaces module for RGB<->YCoCg conversions, removing legacy conversion functions, the YCOCG constant, and the shader property; and extracting the core color grading logic into a reusable ColorGradingFunc with integration into ColorGradingTonemap to simplify fragment shader implementation. No critical bugs fixed this month. Overall impact includes cleaner shader code, improved modularity of the color processing pipeline, easier testing and future extensibility, and potential performance benefits from reduced shader complexity."
January 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary: Focused on color pipeline modernization in HeapsIO/hide. Delivered two major features with refactoring and modularization to simplify the rendering path and improve maintainability. Key actions include refactoring the Temporal Anti-Aliasing shader to use the new ColorSpaces module for RGB<->YCoCg conversions, removing legacy conversion functions, the YCOCG constant, and the shader property; and extracting the core color grading logic into a reusable ColorGradingFunc with integration into ColorGradingTonemap to simplify fragment shader implementation. No critical bugs fixed this month. Overall impact includes cleaner shader code, improved modularity of the color processing pipeline, easier testing and future extensibility, and potential performance benefits from reduced shader complexity."
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Quality Metrics
Correctness86.6%
Maintainability87.6%
Architecture81.6%
Performance79.4%
AI Usage20.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
HLSLHaxe
Technical Skills
3D Graphics3D RenderingCode CleanupCode FormattingCode RefactoringCode StandardizationCollision DetectionColor SpacesDebugging ToolsEditor DevelopmentEngine DevelopmentFront-end DevelopmentGPU ComputingGPU ProgrammingGPU programming
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