Sauce

This page is about an upcoming Resonite feature which has not been released nor tested. Information on this page is subject to change and might be outdated.

Sauce is the codename for a brand new graphics renderer for Resonite.

Developers

Sauce is made by Void Anchor, a separate entity from Resonite and Yellow Dog Man Studios. Its lead developer and owner is Geenz though who is part of the Resonite Team.

Other Team Members:

• Earthmark
• Zandario
• Moony

Features At Launch

Sauce will, at launch, bring the following:

• .NET 8 compatibility
• Generally more flexible rendering pipeline
• A clustered forward renderer

Future Features

Here's a list of potential features that Sauce will allow to be shipped in the future:

• Custom shaders (using protoflux or simular visual scripting in game and potentially code snipet of WGSL code)
• A clustered forward renderer able to support a similar amount of lights to the current deferred renderer
• Better compatibility with multi-process architecture plans
• Mesh shader emulation with compute shaders
• Compute shaders more generally
• Enabling (but not shipping with) standalone support

Further Information

• GitHub Issue with some Sauce Information

FAQs

Q: Does Yellow Dog Man Studios or Resonite own Sauce/Void Anchor?

A: Not at this time.

Q: Did members of the Resonite Team leave Yellow Dog Man Studios to work on Sauce?

A: No.

Q: How will Resonite use Sauce if it doesn't own it?

A: Sauce is currently licensed under the Mozilla Public License V2.0 which allows Resonite to use it without owning it. This is in a similar manner to any of our other dependencies including BEPU Physics, and Lite Net Lib.

Q: Is Yellow Dog Man Studios / Resonite collaborating with Void Anchor?

A: Yes, we regularly speak and discuss requirements.

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