Recent content by Graham

A while back a bought a new PC primarily for VR (and secondly I wanted to stream to the TV but damn in home streaming is garbage)... Anyway. It's a good pc, and I got the valve index headset. Setup with 3 base stations, a dedicated room I wasn't using... So not half arsing it. Overall it's...

Doesn't use pre-recorded videos, fwiw

^^ what Al said

It was nice to watch the DF impressions. I'm glad they liked it (and the SSS / HDR made an impression :~) - they got a few minor things not quite right but I'll let it pass :mrgreen: I appreciate the positive comments on how the game looks, I really do. I cut together a video of me running...

At least in those pictures that looks just like SSR+cube map to me...?

I expect the problems RT will face will be very much the same but likely worse problems as SVOGI, or similar techniques. If you consider the memory access patterns of an SVO 'ray' compared to an RT ray, then very rarely would the RT ray win out in terms of the amount of data or computation it...

This sort of sums up why I feel ray tracing just isn't a good fit for real-time (yet). It's just too precise. Real-time graphics are a trade-off of using approximations for performance. You can always be more accurate, but typically the cost for quality curve can get pretty frightening. Which...

So I was watching epic's star wars demo. I got the distinct impression that it was just rasterized scene with reflections and shadows tracing into some kind of modest resolution voxel grid? The reflections seem to have a slight blur and boxy nature. Things like the depth of field still looked...

Did I forget to mention we have a rigorous 30 day application process where you must code to the death with other candidates in a no holds barred programming cage fight? Anything goes-to, where an unholy union of un structured chaos breaks upon you. For no pointers given xor catches in place, a...

Only times I've been at gdc in the past it's always been for meetings and the like. Once I had a pass just for a 20m meeting and then I had to leave town... Sony have their own thing going on in town before, which is usually my focus.

No I've been at bend for ~4 years now. Previously I was at guerrilla cambridge. Also: FWIW we are hiring for a senior graphics programmer. :mrgreen: so yeah. If you like the thought of living in a mountain resort town with a 5 minute commute... Then mention me so I get the finders bonus.

The implementation in the old demo is pretty rough compared to what I'm using now. For a start it didn't have to support 4k :p There have been a few shipping games using different forms of sss in the meantime. Funny, the first time I messed about with sss was ~ 8 years ago. But I eventually...

The 940e is almost as good and historically has been near half the price. It's my current recommendation for overall best TV. I just had a look for ZD9 prices and struggled to find them. I suspect they are EOL. FWIW if you see the best US price being from 'Joe's AV' then ignore it, place is a...

If there is anything I've learnt it's that I have no idea why different people think certain things look good, myself included. I also find very few people can actually express why they like the look of something. :P In the case of GTA, they do a couple of things really well: they have an...

Well you don't really move a studio to another country. You close it and expand one that's already there. As for why it was there in the first place, well, the bay area has been a hub for investor money for so long that a lot of the talent is there. I get the feeling it's changing though. Game...