Game development presentations - a useful reference

[trinibwoy]

Lumen presentation has no mention of the surface cache and cards in general, so what?
Such presentations often omit many details, that's 100+ pages to explain for a very limited session time after all.

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.

By this paper, dynamic ray-traced probes handle surface shading and caching in the same way as the lumen's surface cache, so I don't see how these techics are different in this regard, both iteratively accumulate bounces across many frames by blending in the history data.

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.

 

[Deleted member 2197]

August 18, 2021

In this GDC talk, we will be joining MediaTek and Tencent games for an action packed talk outlining the developments in bringing Ray Tracing to mobile ; featuring an all new demo from Tencent games!

 

[Clukos]

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

 

[Jawed]

 

[Deleted member 2197]

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

 

[chris1515]

The EA Frosbite presentation about GI Surfel was recorded

 

[chris1515]

Multiple EA SEED presentation

 

[cheapchips]

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

 

[chris1515]

 

[PSman1700]

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

 

[Dictator]

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

 

[Metricity]

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.

 

[chris1515]

 

[Clukos]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1447654579139530752

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

 

[jlippo]

Death Stranding: AI Postmortem

 

[Deleted member 2197]

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

 

[Deleted member 2197]

"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

 

[Clukos]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1471927885690667009

Great stuff from Alan :smile:

 

[Scott_Arm]

Embark's kajiya open-sourced renderer presentation

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

More global illumination for @Dictator

 

[Jawed]

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