Modern rendering and data creation pipeline

After getting some good feedback so far on this forum, I'm back again. This time it's about preprocessing rendering data. Sorry for the long rant but this is a complicated topic to me and I wanted to explain the issue well.

Currently, I'm rewriting my mishmash of 500 billion (ok more like 15, but planned to grow) separate shader classes into a generic system. So far, creating a generic class to represent a set of drawing states (everything you need to call draw() and set textures, constant buffers, VBs, IBs etc…) is getting clear, and, having put …