crosscore_dev VS HybridRenderingEngine

Alternatively you can write a script or plugin to save what you need from inside Maya scene. It's a bit of code, as an example of this approach here is a set of Houdini export scripts that I'm using for my own projects: https://github.com/schaban/crosscore_dev/tree/main/exp What you're getting from this approach is that data is represented in convenient way, and in many cases you don't need any preprocessing or special run-time representation to use the data (for example XCOL format for collision geometry in the scripts above already has BVH structure already baked-in to speed-up collision queries, you don't need to generate it upon loading, dynamic allocations are minimized etc.).

Aside from that, for more foundational information about how things like rendering and shaders work, there's a plethora of content out there such as NVIDIA's "Life of a Triangle" blog post or Fabien Giesen's "A trip through the Graphics Pipeline" blog post. There's really too much to link, so I'm just gonna link this treasure trove of resources covering dozens upon dozens of articles, presentations and blog posts from general computer graphics, GPU programming and architecture, software development, OpenGL-specific resources for getting into graphics programming, etc.

Hybrid Rendering Engine by Angelo1211

Also, I found this to be a nice stack of links: https://github.com/Angelo1211/HybridRenderingEngine/wiki/References#22-Compute-Shaders