Game development presentations - a useful reference

[hesido]

Just a heads up, the pdf is pretty short - wouldn't waste money on it (like the Tomb Raider one ).

Nothing meaty in there.

 

[jlippo]

Nice knowledge sharing platform for developers.
https://gamedevdaily.io/

 

[Clukos]

Very interesting read, very HW specific though(GCN).
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx...0!107&app=PowerPoint&authkey=!AD-O3oq3Ung7pzk

And a followup: A deferred material rendering system

 

[Jawed]

Very interesting read, very HW specific though(GCN).
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx...0!107&app=PowerPoint&authkey=!AD-O3oq3Ung7pzk

The era of malware that executes on the GPU is here.

 

[hesido]

I'm glad there are people on earth with an IQ slightly above 210, like h3r2tic, although I would have named myself h3r2t1c to get that 3 2 1 flow going

 

[jlippo]

Nice little trick to make more feasible vertex normals for surfaces. (Wighted surface normals)
http://www.bytehazard.com/articles/vertnorm.html

Couple of replys from twitter on subject.
https://twitter.com/grumpygiant/sta...p://www.bytehazard.com/articles/vertnorm.html

Richard Mitton:
You don't need to explicitly weight the normals, the facet normal is *already* weighted - just don't normalize it!
--
Also simply doing normal calculation on the quads *before* tessellation to triangles solves the angle weighting problem.

 

[Clukos]

Postmortem: Porting Bastion to PSVita

Really nice, didn't know they got it to run at 60 fps on a portable device :smile:

 

[L. Scofield]

As always, a lot of content covered here:

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/

In japanese but the articles contain lots of pictures

For example, AI in The Division:

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20160315_748348.html

 

[Warchild]

Ubisoft Introduces Motion Matching, The First Step to “Next-Gen Animation”

 

[Clukos]

Q-Games talk from last years GDC (180 pages): The Technology Of Tomorrows Children

Very nice presentation definitely recommending a read, some of the slides

 

[L. Scofield]

Another japanese site with lots of pictures:
http://www.4gamer.net/words/009/W00924/

 

[Clukos]

Taming the Jaguar (GDC2016) by Insomniac (257 pages)

 

[Clukos]

I can already tell this will be a favorite

Dice GDC 2016 - Optimizing the graphics pipeline with compute 99 slides

 

[Clukos]

Temporal Reprojection AA in Inside from GDC 2016

 

[jlippo]

Temporal Reprojection AA in Inside from GDC 2016

Source for the TAA from the talk.
https://github.com/playdeadgames/temporal

 

[Clukos]

thanks to dictator93 from gaf for the link, a list of most available gdc 2016 presentations: https://knarkowicz.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/gdc-2016-presentations/

 

[Clukos]

Cinematic dialogue in the Witcher 3: http://www.gameanim.com/2016/03/23/cinematic-dialogue-witcher-3/

 

[Clukos]

 

[CSI PC]

A nice quick follow that leads on from above is the just under 7m video done by OfficialNinjaTheory on capturing human facial-body expressions, also has a little bit of Andy Serkis in it aww - more seriously seems he is involved quite a bit due to his great experience.
Great to see how developers approach this challenge when one does not have the full AAA budget.

Cheers

 

[chris1515]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8U5MJ4Ll3Eid0w4S3NvZDNzNXM/view

Sony London VR presentation at GDC 2016