Game development presentations - a useful reference

[Ike Turner]

Real-Time Line- and Disk-Light Shading with Linearly Transformed Cosines
https://labs.unity.com/article/real-time-line-and-disk-light-shading-linearly-transformed-cosines

Slightly older one:

A Spherical Cap Preserving Parameterization for Spherical Distributions
https://labs.unity.com/article/spherical-cap-preserving-parameterization-spherical-distributions

 

[chris1515]

http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2017/index.html

All advance realtime rendering session

EDIT

http://openproblems.realtimerendering.com/s2017/index.html

and open realtime rendering sessions

 

[AlNom]

https://research.activision.com/t5/...erials-in-Call-of-Duty-Infinite/ba-p/10337316

This talk presents a practical approach to multilayer, physically based surface rendering, specifically optimized for Forward+ rendering pipelines. The presented pipeline allows for the creation of complex surface by decomposing them into different mediums, each represented by a simple BRDF/BSSRDF and a set of simple, physical macro properties such as thickness, scattering, and absorption. The de-scribed model is explained via practical examples of common multilayer materials such as car paint, lacquered wood, ice, and semi-translucent plastics. Finally, the talk describes intrinsic implementation details for achieving a low performance budget for 60 Hz titles as well as supporting multiple rendering modes: opaque, alpha blend, and refractive blend.

 

[chris1515]

https://research.activision.com/t5/...5811067cdee3c&uid=121567329&nid=244+289476616

This lecture covers two novel rendering algorithms used in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. The first, z-binning, significantly improves the quality and performance of volumetric entity-vs-geometry culling as compared to classic tiled and clustered techniques. The second, conservative proxy culling, utilizes a custom conservative rasterization approach to further improve the quality of culling, significantly improving scenarios with complex occlusion. The lecture presents the design process, the resulting pipeline, and an in-depth implementation of both algorithms on AMD GCN-based GPUs. The target audience is experienced rendering engineers with prior knowledge of tiled or cluster rendering techniques, as well as a basic understanding of GCN intrinsic.

 

[AlNom]

I recognize some of those words.

 

[chris1515]

Some open realtime rendering presentation are available online

http://openproblems.realtimerendering.com/s2017/02-PhysicallyBasedMaterialWhereAreWe.pptx

Physical based material rendering

http://openproblems.realtimerendering.com/s2017/03-SIGGRAPH2017_ACertainSlantOfLight_Final.pptx


Global illumination presentation


http://openproblems.realtimerendering.com/s2017/04-Future Compute SIGGRAPH 2017.pptx

Another one from EA Seed and a B3D member (@Andrew Lauritzen). It is about the future of rendering and the future of the hardware from a Dev side and improve the compute langage because too much brute force and we can improve rendering with clever algorithm via compute shading.

 

[AlNom]

http://www.highperformancegraphics....ssion/HPG2017_EvolutionProgrammableModels.pdf

Evolution of Programmable Models - Looks like Natalya moved on from Bungie to Unity recently.

 

[chris1515]

http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/ge...1aeeba3db8d2f&uid=121567329&nid=244+281088008

A TEMPORAL STABLE DISTANCE TO EDGE ANTI-ALIASING TECHNIQUE FOR GCN ARCHITECTURE

Paper from a guy working at DICE

 

[OCASM]

 

[iroboto]

this would be amazing to have in more games. Though looks CPU intensive. The presentation was long, are their sections where they describe hardware requirements? It's kind of weird that i don't recall the sound to be like that. FF, now I got to check it out. Ahh okay, so not all of Triton shipped with GOW due to RAM budget.

 

[OCASM]

this would be amazing to have in more games. Though looks CPU intensive. The presentation was long, are their sections where they describe hardware requirements? It's kind of weird that i don't recall the sound to be like that. FF, now I got to check it out. Ahh okay, so not all of Triton shipped with GOW due to RAM budget.

There's also Steam Audio:

https://valvesoftware.github.io/steam-audio/

Has plugins for both Unity and UE4.

 

[MfA]

2 decades on, finally reviving what Creative murdered.

 

[OCASM]

Brigade next year is going to be awesome.

And for those who hate Unity for performance reasons I think you'll like this:

Talks about their move to a data oriented paradigm, the jobs system and the new C# compiler.

 

[chris1515]

https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/experiments-in-gpu-based-occlusion-culling/amp/

Interesting blog article about occlusion culling

 

[Scott_Arm]

https://www.3dgep.com/volume-tiled-forward-shading/

 

[iroboto]

https://www.3dgep.com/volume-tiled-forward-shading/

Accompanying Thesis:
https://www.3dgep.com/wp-content/up...h_van_Oosten_Volume_Tiled_Forward_Shading.pdf

 

[chris1515]

https://www.guerrilla-games.com/read/decima-engine-visibility-in-horizon-zero-dawn

Paper on Decima engine visibility

 

[chris1515]

https://www.guerrilla-games.com/read/the-ai-of-horizon-zero-dawn

AI in Horizon Zero Dawn

 

[jlippo]

The Visual Effects of inFAMOUS: Second Son, GDC2014 presentation recording.

Color in games: An in-depth look at one of game design's most useful tools
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/HermanTulleken/20150729/249761/Color_in_Games.php

 

[Scott_Arm]

Linked this in the radeon gpu profiler thread. It's a presentation on how to use use radeon gpu profiler to optimize your code.

https://t.co/q5Dilfgecs