Game development presentations - a useful reference

Would be nice if we didn’t have to guess. We know about the Lumen surface cache and cards because they told us about it.

It’s all about resolution right? Probe grids accumulate bounces too and it works fine for distant objects but the grid usually isn’t dense enough to capture higher frequency bounce lighting.

 

August 18, 2021

 

^ great video on Bézier curves, the visualisation is amazing.

 

Developer video guides on implementing RTXGI plugin in Unreal Engine 4.
September 3, 2021

 

The EA Frosbite presentation about GI Surfel was recorded

 

Multiple EA SEED presentation

 

A not a very detailed look Returnal's VFX.



The blog post has lovely gifs of tentacles and fog

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/0...tropos-to-life/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

 

These guys can make any game's technology sound intresting, its like watching a high quality movie

 

World Space Spatiotemporal Reservoir Reuse for Ray-Traced Global Illumination
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tm4ud92qz8nks44/SA2021_WorldSpace_ReSTIR.pdf?dl=0

 

High Performance Graphics 2021 presentations are on youtube and detailed at https://www.highperformancegraphics.org/2021/program/

I thought the day 3 presentation "Vertex-Blend Attribute Compression" was well put together.

 

2 part blog about shader permutation hell and ways to avoid it, very good read

 

Death Stranding: AI Postmortem

 

Developer Technical Walkthrough

GRAPHICS / SIMULATION Oct 25, 2021
Advanced API Performance: Mesh Shaders
Mesh shaders are designed to overcome the bottlenecks of the fixed layout used by the classical geometry pipeline. 3 MIN READ

GRAPHICS / SIMULATION Oct 25, 2021
Advanced API Performance: Memory and Resources
This post covers best practices for memory and resources on NVIDIA GPUs. To get a high and consistent frame rate in your applications, see all Advanced API… 4 MIN READ

GRAPHICS / SIMULATION Oct 25, 2021
Advanced API Performance: Command Buffers
Achieve performance gains on both the CPU and the GPU by maximizing parallelism, avoiding bottlenecks, and reducing idle times on the GPU. 3 MIN READ

GRAPHICS / SIMULATION Oct 22, 2021
Advanced API Performance: Barriers
This post tells you about tips and caveats for barriers usage for the performance when you’re developing with DX12 or Vulkan. 2 MIN READ

GRAPHICS / SIMULATION Oct 22, 2021
Advanced API Performance: Async Copy
Using async copy on your NVIDIA GPU effectively can significantly increase your performance. These quick recommendations give guidelines on how to arrange your… 3 MIN READ

GRAPHICS / SIMULATION Oct 22, 2021
Advanced API Performance: Async Compute and Overlap
This post covers best practices for async compute and overlap on NVIDIA GPUs. To get a high and consistent frame rate in your applications, see all Advanced API… 8 MIN READ

 

"Ray Tracing as a First Class Citizen in Frostbite" - EA Frostbite GTC 2021 presentation
https://static.rainfocus.com/nvidia/nvidiagtc/sess/1629810339530001vMNc/SessionFile/Hardware Ray Tracing as a First-class Citizen in Frostbite_1635789738069001CWLo.pdf

 

Great stuff from Alan

 

Embark's kajiya open-sourced renderer presentation

https://docs.google.com/presentatio...sxLbVDxLuhhX8U/edit#slide=id.g1093ba7dc6c_0_0

More global illumination for @Dictator

 

I don't want to sound too cruel, but now that Lumen is such a thing, is there any point?