Game development presentations - a useful reference

[chris1515]

https://www.guerrilla-games.com/read/creating-a-tools-pipeline-for-horizon-zero-dawn

https://www.guerrilla-games.com/rea...hanics-in-the-vast-world-of-horizon-zero-dawn

Two other presentation from GDC 2017 from Guerrilla Games

 

[chris1515]

https://twitter.com/_cwyman_/status/839233419502444544

Hashed alpha testing

 

[chris1515]

The new TVCG Phenomenological Transparency shows how to fix ambient occlusion on alpha-blended surfaces

http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/papers/TransparencyTVCG17/

By Morgan McGuire, NVIDIA and Williams College
Michael Mara, NVIDIA and Stanford University

 

[chris1515]

https://666uille.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/ghost-recon-wildlands-terrain-tools-and-technology/

Ghost Recon Wildland terrain tools and technology

 

[Ike Turner]

All GDC 2017 presentations and Slides:
http://gdcvault.com/browse/gdc-17

This one is insane: SPOILER http://gdcvault.com/play/1024472/Huddle-up-Making-the-SPOILER
115 slides presentations of the end of INSIDE. First prototype was done in 2010..6 years before the game's release . Video of the presentation is unfortunately behind the paywall.

 

[chris1515]

http://www.roadtovr.com/lone-echo-developer-shows-impressive-procedural-hand-posing-system-vr/

Interesting article about the use of procedural hand animation for Lone Echo, GDC video inside and link to the slide

 

[chris1515]

http://visualextract.com/publications/

Not into a game but target realtime


Real-Time View Independent Rasterization for Multi-View Rendering

 

[OlegSH]

https://developer.nvidia.com/gdc17
http://waifu2x.udp.jp/

 

[Ike Turner]

AMD's GDC 2017 presentations (click view to download) :
http://gpuopen.com/gdc-2017-presentations/

 

[Laa-Yosh]

Probably the most interesting and thought provoking one so far:
http://gdcvault.com/play/1024104/Future-of-Art-Production-in

 

[Ike Turner]

Real Time GI using Lightmaps
http://copypastepixel.blogspot.fr/2017/04/real-time-global-illumination.html

 

[Ike Turner]

Real-time Rendering of Animated Light Fields

We propose an end-to-end solution for presenting movie quality animated graphics to the user while still allowing the sense of presence afforded by free viewpoint head motion. By transforming offline rendered movie content into a novel immersive representation, we display the content in real-time according to the tracked head pose. For each frame, we generate a set of cubemap images per frame (colors and depths) using a sparse set of of cameras placed in the vicinity of the potential viewer locations. The cameras are placed with an optimization process so that the rendered data maximise coverage with minimum redundancy, depending on the lighting environment complexity. We compress the colors and depths separately, introducing an integrated spatial and temporal scheme tailored to high performance on GPUs for Virtual Reality applications. We detail a real-time rendering algorithm using multi-view ray casting and view dependent decompression. Compression rates of 150:1 and greater are demonstrated with quantitative analysis of image reconstruction quality and performance.

Link to publication page: http://www.disneyresearch.com/real-ti...

 

[dogen]

Rendering of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
https://research.activision.com/t5/...f-Call-of-Duty-Infinite-Warfare/ba-p/10308283

 

[chris1515]

Digital dragons Q&A Guerrilla Games technical director

 

[Infinisearch]

Not sure if this belongs here but Sebbbi made an article for GPUopen on: "Optimizing GPU occupancy and resource usage with large thread groups"

http://gpuopen.com/optimizing-gpu-occupancy-resource-usage-large-thread-groups/

 

[Ike Turner]

Must see in-depth look at Remedy's Notrhlight rendering engine used in Quantum Beak

 

[Ike Turner]

Awesome presentation:

Rendering of Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare


This lecture presents a technical deep dive into COD:IW renderer and the architectural design process behind it. Numerous topics will be covered: shadows, particle rendering, reflections, refractions, global illumination, volumetric rendering and Forward+ rendering.
This talk will guide you through high level interactions between those core subsystems, their design, as well as unveil some novel optimizations and image quality improvements. Finally, the lecture will show specific approaches to performance scaling, that allow fluid 60hz gameplay at 1080p on current generation consoles. The target audience is rendering engineers as well as technical artists interested in learning about modern methods for 60hz titles.

Click here to view the full presentation in: PDF

Click here to download the full presentation in: PowerPoint

 

[Ike Turner]

SIGGRAPH 2017 Real-Time Live! Trailer

You can already try out the crazy Unigine 2 SSGI/SSRTGI here

 

[chris1515]

http://research.nvidia.com/publication/2017-07_Spatiotemporal-Variance-Guided-Filtering:

It is not a gaming presentation but temporal reconstruction for path tracing at 1080p 10ms on modern NVIDIA GPU(Titan X)

 

[Deleted member 2197]

Mixed-primary Factorization for Dual-frame Computational Displays

In this work we explore the idea of joint hardware and algorithm design to balance such trade-offs. We introduce a system that uses content-adaptive and compressive factorizations to reproduce colors. Each target frame is factorized into two products of high-resolution monochromatic and low-resolution color images, which then get integrated through temporal or spatial multiplexing. As our framework minimizes the error in colorimetric space, the perceived color rendition is high, and thanks to GPU acceleration, the results are generated in real-time.

http://research.nvidia.com/publication/2017-06_Mixed-primary-Factorization-for