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I have a DirectX 12 desktop project on Windows 11 that implements post-processing using a combination of DXTK post-process effects.

The aim of the post-proc sequence is to end up with individual bloom and blur textures (along with a depth texture rendered in a depth pass) which are sampled in a 'big triangle' pixel shader to achieve a depth of field effect for the final backbuffer screen image.

The DXTK PostProcesses operate on the full-size (1920x1080) screen texture. Presently this isn't impacting performance (benchmarked at 60fps), but I imagine it could be an issue when I eventually want to support 4K resolutions in future, where full-size image post-processing could be expensive.

Since the recommended best practice is to operate on a scaled down copy of the source image, I hoped to achieve this by using half-size (i.e. quarter resolution) working textures with the DownScale_2x2 BasicPostProcess option. But after several attempts experimenting with the effect, only the top-left quarter of the original source image is being rendered to the downsized texture... not the full image as expected per the documentation:

DownScale_2x2: Downscales each 2x2 block of pixels to an average. This is intended to write to a render target that is half the size of the source texture in each dimension.

Other points of note:

• scene geometry is first rendered to a _R16G16B16A16_FLOAT MSAA render target and resolved to single-sample 16fp target
• postprocessing operates on resolved single-sample 16fp target (where only the intermediate 'Pass1' & 'Pass2' working render targets are set to half the backbuffer length & width)
• final processed image is tonemapped to the _R10G10B10A2_UNORM swapchain backbuffer for presentation.

The following code snippets show how I'm implementing the DownScale_2x2 shader into my post-process. Hopefully it's enough to resolve the issue and I can update with more info if necessary.

Resource initialization under CreateDeviceDependentResources():

Does anybody knows how I can remove (venv) prefix that is displayed in my Powershell Terminal window? I know that this is purely cosmetic, but I'd love to remove it since I'm using Oh My Posh.

I've attached screenshot.

As suggest here https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git/issues/106 I used

git restore 'stash@{0}' --

but still get

I've created a Bicep template. In it I create a user-assigned identity and reference it in other resources like this

Searching for an answer to this finds a lot about GitHub credentials but nothing on this specific issue. I am starting to work with the PowerShell (PoSH) Cmdlet 'Get-Credential' because my company uses Two-factor Authentication (2FA), so a username/password won't work to remote from my desktop (user account) to a server (Admin account). Additionally, I have just started using VS Code. The issue is that when running a simple PoSH snippet, in PoSH ISE using Get-Credential I get a popup that lets me select the certificate that I need and then enter a Pin. When I run this same snippet in VS Code, the popup never appears. Does anyone understand why this is, and can I resolve it?

Here is the snippet for reference.

I have the Posh-Git module installed for Powershell and, recently, I also installed Anaconda and did conda init. Apparently, this modifies the profile.ps1 file by adding the following code:

I am trying to create an automation runbook to backup one of our Azure Devops repository and store it as a Zip file in the storage account. But when I run Git clone in a runbook(imported the posh-git module)I am getting the below error. Is there any way I can download the whole git repo as a Zip file using Automation Runbook?

I use Powershell 5.1 daily in Windows Terminal. However, since a few days, my Oh My Posh theme stopped working, and printed an error that said it couldn't find the theme that I wanted (iterm2), and falled back to a default theme.

I have removed (Remove-Module -Name oh-my-posh -Force) and reinstalled (Install-Module -Name oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser) Oh My Posh, but this hasn't fixed the problem. How to solve ?

Thanks

I have a field of product variant names.

'XS', 'S', 'M', 'S', 'M', 'S', 'M', 'XS', 'S', 'M', 'XS', 'S', 'M', 'L', 'XS', 'XS', 'XS', 'S', 'XL', 'XS', 'M', 'XS', 'S', 'M', 'XS', 'M', 'S', 'XS', 'M', 'Chick Black', 'Brave Blue', 'Bold Red', 'Posh Pink', 'Purple Yum', 'Blue', 'Good Green', 'Orange', 'Purple Yum', 'Red', 'Yellow', 'Red', 'Blue', 'Purple Yum', 'Good Green', 'Orange', 'Pink', 'Light Blue', 'Red', 'Yellow', 'Green Elipse', 'Light Blue', 'Pink', 'Orange', 'White', 'Green Elipse', 'Pink Elipse', 'Blue Elipse', 'Red', 'Yellow Elipse', 'Green Elipse', 'Blue Elipse', 'Pink Elipse', 'Orange', 'White', 'Blue', 'Mint Green', 'Dusty Pink', 'Airforce Blue', 'Claret', 'Pink', 'Rubine Red', 'Green MM', 'Grey', 'Blue', 'Orange', 'Yellow', 'Light Blue', 'Pink', 'Rubine Red', 'Green MM', 'Grey', 'Blue', 'Orange', 'Yellow', 'Light Blue', 'SA 10', 'SA 12', 'SA 14', 'SA 16', 'Blue Babyhood', 'Pink Babyhood'

I want to select id from the variants table based on the list above. But when I do this query,