Game development presentations - a useful reference

[L. Scofield]

Presentations from DICE are finally up.
http://www.frostbite.com/2015/08/physically-based-unified-volumetric-rendering-in-frostbite/
http://www.frostbite.com/2015/08/stochastic-screen-space-reflections/
http://www.frostbite.com/2015/08/the-rendering-pipeline-challenges-next-steps/
http://www.frostbite.com/2015/08/frostbite-on-mobile/

Really impressive stuff.

Dat volumetric lighting

 

[chris1515]

http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/DynamicOcclusionWithSignedDistanceFields.pdf

http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/DynamicOcclusionWithSignedDistanceFields.ppt

Presentation about dynamic occlusion with signed distanve fields of Epic

 

[chris1515]

http://openproblems.realtimerendering.com/Salvi_AA_AreWeThereYet.pptx

Slide of Marco Salvi about AA

 

[chris1515]

• Performance breakdown on Radeon 7870 for 1080p (actual PS4 cost was 3.7ms) – 3.44ms DistanceFieldLighting – 0.03ms ObjectFrustumCulling – 0.23ms ComputeNormal – 0.29ms BuildTileList – 1.68ms ConeTraceObjects – 0.29ms ConeTraceGlobal – 0.14ms CombineCones – 0.17ms GeometryAwareUpsample – 0.31ms UpdateHistory – 0.31ms UpsampleAO

A little surprising, I was thinking PS4 would be more than 4 ms...

 

[jlippo]

An overview of Next-Generation Graphics API

 

[chris1515]

http://www.guerrilla-games.com/publications.html

Horizon Zero Dawn volumetric clouds

 

[chris1515]

Best to see the 922mb powerpoint some of the slide are video if you goes on top. It is impressive

 

[chris1515]

page 44 and 48 videos are very impressive. Great work...

 

[Clukos]

http://www.guerrilla-games.com/publications.html

Horizon Zero Dawn volumetric clouds

Finally! *downloading the almost one gigabyte presentation*

Edit: Those are some nice clouds alright

 

[chris1515]

Finally! *downloading the almost one gigabyte presentation*

Many time lapse video, page 2 is a video. It is even better than Drive Club...

 

[Clukos]

Many time lapse video, page 2 is a video. It is even better than Drive Club...

It's better than any cloud system I've seen in real-time, fully explains the 2ms cost.

Edit: webm of a part of that time-lapse
http://gfycat.com/SpotlessCheerfulBaldeagle

 

[Jawed]

Do any of the clouds cast shadows?

 

[chris1515]

Do any of the clouds cast shadows?

I don't think so too expensive probably...

 

[Clukos]

Do any of the clouds cast shadows?

Slide #83

In our approach, we sample 6 times in a cone toward the sun. This smooth's the banding we would normally get with 6 simples and weights our lighting function with neighboring density values, which creates a nice ambient effect. The last sample is placed far away from the rest in order to capture shadows cast by distant clouds.

 

[Ike Turner]

http://www.guerrilla-games.com/publications.html

Horizon Zero Dawn volumetric clouds

Simply amazing work there. But it looks like the clouds aren't projecting any shadows on the terrain.

Edit: beaten by Jawed

 

[Ike Turner]

Slide #83

Aren't they talking about distant clouds casting shadows on other nearby clouds and not on the terrain itself?

 

[Clukos]

Aren't they talking about distant clouds casting shadows on other nearby clouds and not on the terrain itself?

I think so, yeah. Clouds cast shadows on other clouds but not on terrain. Maybe they'll have something similar to how Assassin's Creed games handle cloud shadows on terrain at release. They pretty much said this is still WIP at the last few slides.

 

[Ike Turner]

I think so, yeah. Clouds cast shadows on other clouds but not on terrain. Maybe they'll have something similar to how Assassin's Creed games handle cloud shadows on terrain at release. They pretty much said this is still WIP at the last few slides.

They can also fake it with relatively good results (Forza Horizon 2 did it with its 2D skydome but it didn't always work if you paid close attention)

 

[hesido]

This is the best realtime cloud implementation I've seen.

Oh, temporal reprojection to the rescue again, the devs are really making good use of it like I said somewhere here..

Spoiler: legality

will somebody sue them because the game doesn't render every cloud pixel every frame?

 

[Ike Turner]

Remedy's Quantum Break GI presentation is up

Hi-res PDF (110 MB)

Interestingly all the performance references are @720P (on Xbox ONE obviously). Expect the final game to be running at best at 900P (or some form of dynamic res)