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Rendering a Sphere on a Quad
- the article explains in detail how to render a raytraced sphere that interacts with other parts of...
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Intro to Shaders
- beginner-focused tutorial that explains how 3D data is structured in computer graphics
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[video] Christmas special, making it snow.
- the video tutorial explains how to create interactive snow on terrain and objects using Godo...
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A Diligent Approach to Ray Tracing
- the article presents a walkthrough of a RayTracing abstraction layer that was implemented fo...
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Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.9 introduces support for Radeon™ RX 6000 Series
- the updated tool allows an in-depth view into the raytracing details on AMD hardware
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[video] CUDA Memory Model
- the video explains the CUDA memory model - covering the rules of how memory operations on sh...
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ShaderQuest Part 0: Series Introduction
- Overview for the start of a new shader tutorial series for beginners
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Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
- the article focuses on providing a walkthrough of dithering techniques
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CVTT Texture Compressor Technical Breakdown
- the article provides an overview of the CVTT compression techniques used (DirecXTex fork aims to b...
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[video] How to texture a procedural object
- the video tutorial explains the fundamentals of texture mapping in ShaderToy
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[video] Getting Started with Compute Shaders in Unity
- this Unity tutorial aimed at beginners presents a starter guide for compute shaders
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Unorganized Unit Vectors Sets Quantization
- the paper presents a new technique of on-the-fly quantization for unorganized sets of unit vectors...
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Render Scale - Scaling Up and Down
- tutorial series about creating a custom scriptable render pipeline in Unity
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Basic Tessellation setup in URP
- the Unity tutorial provides a starting point for how to use tessellation shaders
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Graphics Studies Compilation
- collection of articles that provide a breakdown of various games
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Rendering Astronomic Stars
- the article shows the steps required to use star databases to enable the correct rendering of star...
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Best shots from 2020
- Collection of impressive screenshots from Games (mostly PC, a few from PS4 Pro)
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Practical Hash-based Owen Scrambling
- the paper presents an implementation of a hash-based Owen scrambling for Sobol sampling with neste...
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Why are video games graphics (still) a challenge? Productionizing rendering algorithm...
- the article provides an overview of considerations when developing a graphics technique for video ...
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Frustum Culling
- the article presents how to implement frustum culling and the effects on CPU and GPU performance
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Why Raytracing won't simplify AAA real-time rendering.
- the blog post provides a look back at the evolution of graphics technology and how they affect gam...
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RDNA 2 hardware raytracing
- the blog posts takes a look at the RNDA ISA and presents how ray tracing has been implemented in A...
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A perceptual color space for image processing
- the article presents a new perceptual color space
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States and Barriers of Aliasing Render Targets
- the article presents an overview of D3D12 aliasing barriers, Discard/Clear semantics, and how they...
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Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077
- the article presents a breakdown of a Cyberpunk 2077 frame
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vk_mini_path_tracer
- Vulkan tutorial that shows how to implement a Path Tracer in 300 lines of C++ using Vulkan compute...
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Grass Geometry Shader with Interactivity (Part 1, the shader)
- the Unity tutorial explains how interactivity between player and grass can be implemented for geom...
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How To Create A Coiled Cable Shader In UE4
- the article explains how to generate cables from cylinders
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to z-prepass or not to z-prepass
- the article presents an overview of what a Z-pre-pass is
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[video] Cyberpunk 2077 PC: What Does Ray Tracing Deliver... And Is It Worth It?
- in-depth Digital Foundry comparison between Raytracing and classical rendering features on PC
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Cameras and Lenses
- the article gives an understanding of how different types of camera and lenses work
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[video] Glyphs, shapes, fonts, signed distance fields.
- the video tutorial provides an overview of signed distance fields
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[video] Moving Mobile Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2020 Course
- video recording from all talks in the Siggraph 2020 course in a single video
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Physically Based Rendering - Phong BRDF
- introductory slides for physically based rendering course
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[video] Grass Fields in Unity URP! Procedurally Generate Blades with Compute Shaders ...
- the video tutorial shows how to generate grass blades that swing in the wind
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Shockwave Shader Graph
- the video tutorial explains how to implement a ripple effect
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Debugging refraction in a ray tracer
- short blog post that provides advice on how to debug refraction in a raytracer
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Texture Compression in 2020
- the article presents an overview of different compression formats and libraries
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Generating Ray-Traced Caustic Effects in Unreal Engine 4, Part 1
- the article explains the implementation of Caustics using a photon mapping technique that takes ad...
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Using Mesh Shaders for Professional Graphics
- the article shows examples of how to use mesh shaders (code examples in GLSL)
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AMD RDNA™ 2 Instruction Set Architecture
- the RDNA 2 Instruction Set has been released - shows that RDNA 2 supports dedicated instructions f...
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Radeon™ Memory Visualizer is now Open Source
- AMD released the source code for the Memory Visualizer
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Softening polygon intersections in Blightbound
- the article shows how fading our transparent objects when getting close to an intersection helps t...
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Accelerating Unstructured Mesh Point Location with RT Cores
- the paper presents the results of research into using the RTX raytracing hardware for unstructured...
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[video] SIGGRAPH 2020 — High Quality, High Performance Rendering in Filament
- video for the talk has been released, was covered in the week [147](https://www.jendrikillner.com/...
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[video] SIGGRAPH 2020 - Large Voxel Landscapes On Mobile
- the talk explains the Voxel-based terrain system used in Roblox
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Black skin in your stylized dimly-lit video game
- The article presents how important reflectivity of Black skin is for believable results
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Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering
- the talk from Digital Dragons looks at open questions in rendering
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Angelo Pesce - Rendering the Metaverse across Space and Time
- the talk provides an overview of Roblox and how the philosophy creates an environment with very di...
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Particles Color and Depth Textures
- part of tutorial series about the Unity scriptable rendering pipeline (SRP)
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Robin Taillandier & Jon Valdes - Every Strand Counts: Physics and Rendering Behind Fr...
- presentation shows the in-progress state of the new Frostbite hair rendering system in the context...
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The Spraycan
- the articles discusses how the voxel rendering in teardown uses an 8
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Linearly Transformed Spherical Harmonics
- the Bachelor thesis introduces Linearly Transformed Spherical Harmonics
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Memory types of discrete GPUs
- the article explains a different kind of memory that exists
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Intel View in Mafia III
- the article presents how the effect was implemented that allows objects to be colorized/silhouette...
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Michał Olejnik - Raytraced Shadows in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- video recording of the talk covered in [week 154](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics
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[video] Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths
- the video presents an in-depth walkthrough that shows how to use signed distance fields (SDF) to c...
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 21 - the painted world
- the article shows how The Witcher 3 implements a fullscreen effect that gives the world a painterl...
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biplanar mapping - 2020
- the post presents a bi-planar mapping as an alternative to tri
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[video] Endless Fields of Grass in URP with a Compute Shader! | Unity 2020.1
- A Unity video tutorial that explains how to generate grass meshes using Compute shaders
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Multiple Importance Sampling in 1D
- the article shows how Multiple Importance Sampling in 1D is used to improve the convergence of sto...
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Baking a Realistic Renderer from Scratch and other resources for Beginners in Compute...
- a collection of resources (books, talks, websites) the author recommends for beginners to get star...
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DirectX 12 Ultimate - Variable Rate Shading
- the presentation provides an overview of Variable Rate Shading (VRS), the different features level...
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AMD FidelityFX Denoiser
- the presentation explains the ray tracing denoising technique developed by AMD
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Vulkan Ray Tracing Final Specification Release
- the post explains what changes have been made to the Vulkan raytracing extension since the preview...
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Exploring ray tracing techniques in Wolfenstein: Youngblood
- the article presents an overview of how Vulkan raytracing has been implemented into Wolfenstein
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In the works: HLSL Shader Model 6.6
- the article contains an overview of the new features that will be included in shader model 6.6
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D3D12 APITrace - Capture and Replay
- the blog posts describes how APITrace can intercept D3D12 applications (even complex AAA games suc...
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[video] Realistic Clouds - Sapiens Devlog 54
- the dev vlog explains how the 2D billboard based clouds are implemented
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[video] Devlog 1: How we built the toon shading | Open Projects
- the devlog presents a walkthrough of the implementation of a toon shader
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[video] Introduction to Compute Shaders in Unity URP! Replace Geometry Shaders | Game...
- the video tutorial explains how to take an input mesh and use a compute shader to generate additio...
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Top Fire Shader Graphs
- the article presents three different approaches to archive a fire effect using Unity
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d3d12 - Vulkan
- unrolled Twitter thread presenting an overview of differences between D3D12 and Vulkan
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Technically Art: Issue 76 (20.11.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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CasCmdLine - Few Technical Details
- brief article that shows how to create a D3D11 device without a window
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Practical Tips for Implementing Subsurface Scattering in a Ray Tracer
- the article presents techniques to improve Subsurface Scattering (SSS) implementation based on the...
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Frostpunk Heatmap
- the Unity explains how to implement a heat map view to visualize the temperatures in Buildings
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Resource uniformity & bindless access in Vulkan
- the article provides a brief overview of different kinds of array indexing types in shaders
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What is shader occupancy and why do we care about it?
- the blog post explains what shader occupancy is and how it connects to vector registers usage
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Retro CRT Shader — A post processing effect study
- the article explains how to implement a CRT rendering effect using GLSL
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Combining 2D and 3D in Blightbound's VFX
- the article explains how the 2D VFX effect has been integrated int the 3D world of Blightbound
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Introducing OWL: A Node Graph Abstraction Layer on top of OptiX 7
- article introduces OWL, an abstraction build on OptiX 7
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The Bright Side of Ray-Traced Global Illumination in Unity
- the article presents the difference between baked, screen
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Generating meshes procedurally in Unity
- the post explains how to generate a procedural mesh
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Vulkan Ecosystem & SDK Survey - 2020
- Vulkan survey to gather information about user experience, platform support, and future developmen...
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[video] Procedural Water Ripples in Unity using Shader Graph Only
- a Unity video tutorial that shows how to implement a water ripple effect
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Linear Algebra Shenanigans: Gizmo Repair
- the article presents how to resolve issues with movement widget logic
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[video] SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 – Technical Papers Trailer
- overview of technical papers that will be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
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Normalizing the Phong Specular BRDFs
- the paper presents an energy normalization derivation of the Phong lighting model
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Projective Geometric Algebra
- collection of resources by Eric Lengyel covering geometric algebra (this includes Grassmann algebr...
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Compute Shaders Rendering One Million Cubes
- the article explains how to use a compute shader to render moving cubes
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A summer sprint: bringing near-native performance to Zink
- the blog post presents an overview of the development progress of Zink(OpenGL on Vulkan layer)
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Adding support for two-level acceleration for raytracing
- the second part of the blog post series covering raytracing implementation with compute shaders pr...
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Khronos Vulkan Working Group Releases Shading Rate Extension to Increase Rendering Pe...
- Vulkan extension for Variable Rate Shading (VRS) has been released as [VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rat...
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PIX 2010.26 – Updated Command List Execution View & Descriptor Heap Viewer
- latest PIX update adds support for visualizing the GPU execution of command list from a single Exe...
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Technically Art: Issue 74 (30.10.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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The Elephant on RTX – First Light. (or: Ray Tracing Disney’s Moana Island using RTX, ...
- the author presents an overview of his raytracer setup
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Multiple Cameras Camera Blending and Rendering Layers
- the Unity article explains how to integrate multiple cameras into a scriptable render pipeline
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Shader Graph - Stylized Glass
- the shader tutorial explains how to stylized toon glass shader
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Screen Space Reflections in Blightbound
- the articles explains the pitfalls encountered when implementing Screen Space reflections
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The Dark Side Of Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion (RTAO)
- the blog post provides an overview of ambient occlusion and what it approximates
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Technically Art: Issue 73 (23.10.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Raytraced Shadows in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- the presentation explains how the raytracing for shadows has been implemented into Call of Duty
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Surface Gradient–Based Bump Mapping Framework
- the paper presents a new framework for layering and compositing of bump maps from different source...
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A Tip for HiZ SSR - Parametric 't' Tracing
- the article presents how the precision HiZ tracing logic (used for screen space reflection) can be...
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The future of RLSL
- the blog post explains the history of RLSL (Rust Like Shading Language)
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Introducing rust-gpu v0.1
- First public release of Rust-gpu, a new SPIR-V backend for the Rust
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A Better Way to Scalarize a Shader
- the article provides a brief overview of scalarization and suggests an alternative approach
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GPU-Motunui
- the post explains the implementation of a path tracer that enables the rendering of the Disney Moa...
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Watercolour Shader Experiments
- the Unity-based effect presents how to create a watercolor rendering style
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Fast Eulerian Fluid Simulation In Games Using Poisson Filters
- the research presents a 2D fluid simulation in a 3D scene used to generate fire effects
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Geometry Shaders in URP
- the Unity tutorial provides a brief overview of the rendering pipeline
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HSV Shader Graph – Hue Saturation Value
- the tutorial explains HSV color space and presents how to implement conversion
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Blowing bubbles with Shader Graph
- the article presents how to implement the rendering of a soap bubble in Unity
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[Video] Vertex animation textures, beanbags and boneless animations
- The video tutorial explains how vertex animations can be stored and played back from textures
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Does subgroup/wave size matter?
- the articles presents an overview of the GPU execution model, how divergent control flow is handle...
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Framebuffers, WGPU and Rust
- the article explains the terms required to understand the initialization of a webGPU application
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Hash Functions for GPU Rendering
- the paper presents an evaluation of deterministic hash functions
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[video] Beautiful Results From 30 Years Of Light Transport Simulation!
- the video shows the history of light transport techniques and presents how they perform in complex...
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[video] Variance-Aware Path Guiding (SIGGRAPH 2020 presentation)
- SIGGRAPH 2020 presentation that provides an overview of Variance
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Grass Shader
- the blog post discusses the development of a GPU based grass rendering system
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[video] Marvel's Spider-Man PS5 Ray Tracing Analysis - The Challenge of RT in First-G...
- the video shows the Ray Tracing implementation and uses it to explain the considerations when desi...
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Yet Another Stylised Water Shader
- breakdown shows how a Stylised Water Shader was implemented in Unity
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Scaling Probe-Based Real-Time Dynamic Global Illumination for Production
- the paper presents extensions to the [probe based irradiance
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sRGB/ACEScg Luminance Comparison
- the blog post presents a comparison between the usage of different color spaces on the results of...
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Color Grading Playing with Colors
- the 13ths part of the scriptable render pipeline tutorial explains how to add color grading to the...
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System Value Semantics in Compute Shaders - Cheat Sheet
- the article presents a table of HLSL and GLSL compute shader semantics and how they the meanings m...
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New Tutorial – Unified Radeon™ GPU Profiler and Radeon™ Memory Visualizer usage with ...
- tutorial explains the new unified AMD interface for the GPU Profiler Memory Visualizer
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Porting detroit: become human from playstation® 4 to pc – part 1
- the post explains the experiences on porting the game from PS4 to PC using Vulkan
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Porting detroit: become human from playstation® 4 to pc – part 2
- part two of the series provides on porting Detroit: become human offers an overview of indexing co...
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Porting detroit: become human from playstation® 4 to pc – part 3
- the last part of the series briefly explains how they used scalarization to optimize shader, split...
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Making a Real Time Stylized Sword Aura Effect with Shaders
- the author explains his approach for the design of an aurora shader challenge
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Borderland between Rendering and Editor — Part 3: Selection Highlighting
- the articles explains how The Machinery implementing for rendering the outline of selected objects...
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Fighting Fragmentation: Vulkan Portability Extension Released and Implementations Shi...
- the blog post provides an overview of the different API layering implementations (Vulkan on Metal,...
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Math in Art
- beginner-focused tutorial explains how to store normals, noise, and positional data in textures
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Vulkan Will Soon Have A Vendor-Neutral Cross-Platform Ray-Tracing API
- video presentation from the X.Org Developer Conference provides an overview of the Vulkan vendor
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Technically Speaking Challenge 1: Retro Shaders
- collection all entries for a tech art challenge with the theme Retro shaders
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Five years of GPU DB
- the author presents a look back at the last 5 years of the [GpuDB](https://db.thegpu.guru)
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Loads, Stores, Passes, and Advanced GPU Pipelines
- the article explains the basic of the tiled GPU architectures used on mobile
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The Last of Us Part II, material blending, the SDF of a plane.
- the video tutorial explains how to implement a rust effect on objects that intersect with a water ...
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Rules for a Future-Proof 2D Render Order
- the article explains the sorting, rendering layer design for a 2D game
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Write-up: VHS Image Effect
- post discusses a shader approach to implement a VHS effect using Unity
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Building WebGPU with Rust
- the talk provides an overview of WebGPU and provides an overview of the implementation using Rust
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Toon Lighting Basics
- the blog post explains how to implement a simple Toon Lighting shader using the Amplify Shader Edi...
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Graphics.DrawProcedural
- the Unity tutorial shows how to generate mesh data on compute shaders and draw them from the GPU w...
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Guide to Vulkan Synchronization Validation
- this guide explains how to use the Vulkan Synchronization Validation layer
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Heat Haze Shader Graph How-To
- the article explains how to implement a heat haze screenspace effect for a 2D game using Unity
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Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.8 released
- article shows the new Instruction Timing, Theoretical occupancy, and UI improvements in the latest...
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NVIDIA Announces Nsight Graphics 2020.5
- new release adds support for NVIDIA Ampere microarchitecture
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Error Reporting Improvements for Vulkan Validation Layers
- Vulkan validation layer has been updated to include additional and improved validation messages
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Procedural Physically based BRDF for Real-Time Rendering of Glints
- the paper presents a physically-based model for the realtime rendering of sparkling materials
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Continuous Multiple Importance Sampling (SIGGRAPH 2020 Presentation)
- the video provides a great explanation of Monte Carlo integration importance sampling
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I3D 2020 starts this Monday
- summary on how to take part and find the content of I3D 2020
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Debugging D3D11 apps using D3D11On12
- overview of debugging D3D11 applications using Pix for Windows
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Topics in Quantization for Games
- the post discusses a variety of quantization topis to ensure conversion of precision
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Technically Art: Issue 67 (11.09.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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VHS Video Material Tutorial
- the Unreal tutorial explains how to apply a shader effect that converts a video into a VHS s...
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Stormscapes: Simulating Cloud Dynamics in the Now
- the SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 paper presents a cloud simulation with high
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DOOM Eternal - Graphics Study
- in-depth breakdown of the the frame strutcure in Doom eternal
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Variable Rate Shading: first impressions
- the blog post provides an overview of VRS modes, presents some possible use cases and perfor...
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Compressing PBR material texture sets with sparsity and k-SVD dictionary learning
- the article provides an introduction to sparse and dictionary learning methods and applies t...
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Compressed GPU texture formats – a review and compute shader decoders – part 2
- this part of the series presents a discussion of how the BC6 and BC7 format is implemented
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GPU Captures: How we support placed and reserved resources
- the blog post explains how PIX for Windows tracks placed and reserved resources
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Nsight: The Most Important Ampere Tools In Your Utility Belt
- the article provides an overview of the Nvidia tools available and how they can be combined t...
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Porting Falcon Age to the Oculus Quest
- the article provides a post-mortem view about the kind of changes, optimizations, and qualit...
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Shader Studies: Matrix Effect
- the article provides a detailed breakdown of a shader that implements a matrix style effect ...
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Technically Art: Issue 66 (04.09.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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RenderDoc for Oculus
- the blog post describes the custom Occulus fork of RenderDoc that adds support for a profiling mod...
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
- slides and videos for all course talks are available
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Samurai Shading in Ghost of Tsushima
- the talk discusses the anisotropic specular techniques
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Godot - OPTIMIZING A 3D SCENE
- a guide aimed at beginners with Godot engine that presents an overview of the available counters
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New in DirectX— Feature Level 12_2
- the post lists the minimum requirements and optional features for D3D feature level 12_2
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Real-time rendering of water caustics
- the article presents a WebGL based technique for caustics rendering
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PIX Release 2008.26 – Our biggest update to GPU captures since 2017
- blog post provides an overview the PIX for Windows changes
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Introducing the new Vulkan Configurator (vkconfig)
- the blog post contains an overview of the Vulkan Configurator
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Seven Things for August 27, 2020
- collection of resources including a link to open Access Siggraph, interactive article on photogram...
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High Quality, High Performance Graphics in Filament
- how to take advantage of tiling GPU architecture and enable the use of fp16 math
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Quantitative Analysis of Z-Buffer Precision
- the blog posts present an analysis of depth buffer precision
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Physics-Based Differentiable Rendering: A Comprehensive Introduction
- SIGGRAPH 2020 course that presents an overview of inverse
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Bringing an Accurate Fresnel to Real-Time Rendering: a Preintegrable Decomposition
- presents a new model for Fresnel reflectance that provides a unification of Schlick and Gulbrandse...
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Fresnel model #12
- Continued discussion on fresnel shading sparked by the talks of Siggraph 2020
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How I turned my side project into a paper at a top graphics conference
- the article presents a walkthrough and experiences of getting a paper included in Siggraph 2020
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Vulkan - Robustness
- the guide explains how optional robustness features allow Vulkan applications to treat out
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An early release of pbrt-v4 and some notes about pbrt-gpu
- the first release of pbrt-v4, adds new rendering techniques but also adds support for GPU renderin...
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Introduction to the Vulkan Computer Graphics API
- Siggraph 2020 course that provides an API overview for basic drawing in Vulkan
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Single Pass Stereo: a study
- Single Pass Stereo is a technique that can be used to simultaneously project geometry for the left...
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Advances in Monte Carlo Rendering: The Legacy of Jaroslav Křivánek
- SIGGRAPH 2020 course that reviews and discusses insights of techniques introduced Jaroslav Křiváne...
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Zero-Variance Theory for Efficient Subsurface Scattering
- the Siggraph 2020 course presents guided sampling techniques that reduce variance to allow faster ...
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Path Trace Visualization - Part 1
- the article presents how to implement a path visualization system for a GPU path tracer
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HDR Scattering and Tone Mapping
- The Unity tutorial explains how to add HDR rendering support to a custom scriptable render pipelin...
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A Primer on sokol_gfx.h
- the article provides an overview of the scope of the sokol_gfx 3D API wrapper
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Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing
- the article provides an extensive list of best practices for DXR usage
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Jet Set Vulkan : Reflecting on the move to Vulkan
- the article provides a basic overview of how the OpenGL ES based engine was ported to Vulkan
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Procedural Paintings with Genetic Evolution Algorithm
- the blog post explains how the author implemented a precural painting logic using compute shaders
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Compressed GPU texture formats – a review and compute shader decoders – part 1
- the article presents an overview of the DXT and ETC compression formats
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Writing Shaders in VS Code: GLSL Setup
- short post presenting how to setup VSCode to allow GLSL shader iteration
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Rendering Perfect Reflections and Refractions in Path-Traced Games
- the article explains primary surface replacement (PSR) and checkerboarded split frame rendering (...
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[video] Torus Knots explained!
- A video tutorial that explains how to implement a shader to render a torus knot using ShaderToy
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Render Target Abstraction
- the article discusses the different render target requirements for D3D12 and Vulkan and presents 4...
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LunarG Releases Enhanced Vulkan Configurator in new SDKs
- Vulkan SDK release contains a graphics vkconfig tool to allow users to configure layer settings
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Fire Shader Breakdown
- the Unity tutorials show how to implement a fire effect using a camera facing quad with shader bas...
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Nonsingular Point Light Attenuation
- the Siggraph 2020 talk presents the derivation of a point light attenuation that eliminates the si...
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Case Study: Vector Displacement Mapping in Real-Time
- the article shows an overview of what vertex displacement mapping techniques are and how to genera...
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A little clarification on modern shader compile times
- the article an overview of the complexities with Pipeline management in D3D12 and Vulkan applicati...
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Perspective! 1: theory side
- the article shows the theory of perspective projects and discuses perspective distortion
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Full Screen Shaders in HDRP, URP, and Built In Renderer
- the Unity tutorial shows how to write a simple fullscreen heat haze shader an apply in the differe...
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Eight years at Roblox
- the article provides at the authors work of the last 8 years
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Technically Art: Issue 63 (07.08.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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[UNITY VFX TUTORIAL] Creating a Stylized Magical Barrier in Unity
- this video tutorial shows how to implement an Overwatch magical shield effect
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 20 - light shafts
- the in-depth article presents how the light shafts in The Witcher 3 have been implemented
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
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Systematic Evaluation of the Quality Benefits of Spatiotemporal Sample Reprojection i...
- the paper presents an evaluation of what kind of gains can be achieved with temporal reprojection ...
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Technically Art: Issue 62 (31.07.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Efficiency Tips on Switching Spaces and Transformation Matrices in Unity
- part 2 of an article series discussing the mathematical foundation of matrix/vector operations
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Custom SRP - Post Processing Bloom
- next part in a Unity SRP (scriptable render pipeline) tutorial series covering the implementation ...
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Oceans with Unity Shader Graph
- A video tutorial that shows how to implement a stylized ocean shader using Shader Graph in Unity
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Seven things for July 30, 2020
- collection of 7 compelling links to compute graphics/programming related topics
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Retro Renderman: shading on Finding Nemo’
- the article presents how the corals in finding Nemo have been shaded
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Engine Work: DDGI Light Probe Depth Data Compression
- the article presents a few techniques to compress Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination probe inform...
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Vulkan synchronisation and graphics-compute-graphics hazards: Part I
- the article presents an overview of Vulkan barriers and shows how different barriers influence a P...
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Vulkan synchronisation and graphics-compute-graphics hazards: Part 2
- the second part of the series presents how to overlap work from two consecutive frames by submitti...
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using embree generated BVH trees for GPU raytracing
- the blog post presents how to use the Intel Embree library to generate a BVH tree for use with a G...
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Retro Renderman: shading food for ‘ratatouille’
- the article present how the food in ‘Ratatouille’ was shaded based on the skin model
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Sprite Outlines
- the Unity tutorial explains how to add an outline to a 2D sprite
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Technically Art: Issue 61 (24.07.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Passing Particle System Data into Shadergraph (Custom Vertex Streams)
- This Unity tutorial shows how to pass data from the Shuriken Particle System to the particle shade...
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Fundamentals of the Vulkan Graphics API: Why Rendering a Triangle is Complicated
- the article provides a high-level explanation of the Vulkan API concepts required to render a sing...
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Unreal Engine Sky Atmosphere Rendering Technique
- open source D3D11 implementation of the paper presented at EGSR 2020 ["A Scalable and Production R...
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Why Not Use Heterogeneous Multi-GPU?
- the blog posts list a few possible drawbacks that need to be considered if a mix of dedicated GPU ...
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Quick Game Art Tip - Sprite/UI Color Mask
- a small shader example that shows that texture channels can be reserved to allow objects to change...
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Optimizing Compute Shaders for L2 Locality using Thread-Group ID Swizzling
- the article shows how to improve performance of fullscreen compute shader passes by tiling thread ...
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Art Tips from a Graphics Programmer 1, FRESNEL!
- a twitter thread that visually explains what the Fresnel effect is and how it affects the appearan...
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Shadow Move Rendering in Killer Instinct: Season 3
- the blog post presents how the shadow move technique was implemented in Killer Instinct: Season 3
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Three key techniques for improving mobile game graphics using PVRTexTool
- the blog post provides an overview of mipmapping, Colour Bleeding, and pre
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Indexed Material Mapping Tecnique
- the short blogpost shows an artists material setup that uses a small 16x16 LUT as indirection tabl...
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Technically Art: Issue 60 (17.07.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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GPU Memory Aliasing
- the article discusses what memory aliasing exposed from Vulkan and D3D12 is and how it can be used...
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[video] HPG 2020 - High-Performance Graphics (Day 1)
- Towards Fully Ray-Traced Games: Addressing System
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[video] HPG 2020 - High-Performance Graphics (Day 2)
- Neural Denoising for Path Tracing of Medical Volumetric Data
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[video] HPG 2020 - High-Performance Graphics (Day 3)
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NVIDIA Research: Warp Drive Gaming – Eliminate More than 80% of the Latency Performan...
- the paper presents a technique that uses late input latching and wrapping wrap render results to m...
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Now You Can Choose High-Performing Unity Shaders
- the article provides an overview of the performance that can be expected from several Unity Engine...
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An Exploration of GPU Silhouette Rendering
- the article presents many techniques for rendering broad outlines for 3D objects
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[video] Unity: Make It Rain with Amplify Shader Editor
- this Unity tutorial explains how to implement a rain effect on the surface of objects using a tech...
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WWDC20 - What's new in Metal and the Apple GPU
- the article summaries the changes announced at WWDC
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Retro RenderMan: reflections in ‘ratatouille’
- a look back at how RenderMan handled blurry glossy surface reflection in 2007 for Ratatouille
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A trip through ZOOBA’s bush rendering
- the blog post explains a CSG algorithm implementation based on using the depth and stencil buffer
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Drinking from the Firehose: Learning Computer Graphics Techniques and Programming
- the author provides an overview of the mindset, technique, and requirements for learning graphics ...
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Graphical glitch detection in video games using convolutional neural networks
- the master thesis looks at Machine Learning techniques to discover visual issues, such as stretche...
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PIX 2006.26 – Fence Signal/Wait Arrows in GPU Captures
- this PIX upgrade adds support for signal wait visualizations and improved buffer visualization
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Shader Graph : Stylized Skybox
- the Unity tutorial explains how to implement a stylized skybox with sun, moon, and clouds using th...
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Using Radeon™ GPU Analyzer with Direct3D®12 Compute
- the article presents how to use the AMD GPU Analyzer for compute shaders
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Using Radeon™ GPU analyzer with DirectX®12 Graphics
- the article explains got to use the AMD GPU ANALYZER to get low
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Resolving Metal GPU timers
- the article explains how to collect GPU timestamps and synchronize the CPU and GPU timestamps
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Barebones WebGL in 75 lines of code
- the article explains the basics required to render a triangle with WebGL
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Deep dive into OpenGL over DirectX layering
- explanation of the architecture of executing OpenGL on D3D12 using a Mesa
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Spectral Path Tracer
- the article explains how spectral rendering can be implemented in a DXR based path trace
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Technically Art: Issue 59 (10.07.2020)
- collection of tech art and VFX twitter posts, including a look at facial animation tech of the Las...
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[video] two minute papers - This is Geometry Processing Made Easy
- a brief summary video of the "Monte Carlo Geometry Processing: A Grid
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Practical Product Sampling by Fitting and Composing Warps
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Warping samples paper at rendering symposium
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Graphics on the web and beyond with WebGPU
- the article provides an overview of the WebGPU API and shows the steps necessary to render a textu...
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Lights and Shadows
- the great in-depth article explains the concepts of light with many interactive examples
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Specular Manifold Sampling for Rendering High-Frequency Caustics and Glints
- the paper presents a new technique that combines techniques caustics and glint into a single frame...
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Introducing neural supersampling for real-time rendering
- the paper presents a neural network upsampling technique that is aimed at 16x upsampling for real
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Cancel your SIGGRAPH hotel; attend EGSR, HPG, and I3D 2020 virtually, free
- list of computer graphics conferences, dates and links to the stream as they are all virtual this ...
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Point and Spot Shadows Perspective Shadows
- Unity tutorial that shows how to implement realtime shadows for point and spotlights using a custo...
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A Taxonomy of Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function Lobes for Rendering Engi...
- the paper presents a taxonomy of the lobes that are composed to create a BSDF
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Fast Render Target Rendering in Unreal Engine 4
- the article presents how to efficiently implement render
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Screen space shadows
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Intersection of a ray and a plane
- the article shows how to derive the intersection between a ray and a plane
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Get to know Metal function pointers
- the Metal shader API now supports function pointers
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Scanline Effect
- the Unity tutorial explains how to implement a moving scanline post
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[video] NVIDIA Nsight Feature Spotlight: GPU Trace
- the video provides an overview of the D3D12 frame
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Constant data in Vulkan
- the article explains several different methods that can be used to manage shader constant data
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SHAD2: shaders, but more difficult
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The 31st Eurographics Symposium on Rendering
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Features that are coming to iOS and MacOS
- a twitter thread that lists new features Metal API features and provides links to documentation fo...
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[video] Rendering Roblox: Vulkan Optimisations on Imagination PowerVR GPUs (Presented...
- the GDC talk discusses the voxel-based lighting and shadow system
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Graphics Study: Red Dead Redemption 2
- the article presents a frame breakdown of the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2
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NVIDIA Posts First DirectX 12 Ultimate Driver Set, Enables GPU Hardware Scheduling
- NVidia driver update adds support for DXR 1.1, VRS Tier 2, mesh shaders and sampler feedback
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Optimize Metal apps and games with GPU counters
- a video from WWDC 20 provides an overview of the GPU pipeline, what hardware counters are availabl...
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Discover ray tracing with Metal
- video from WWDC explains the basic building blocks of the Metal ray tracing API and how to support...
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Creating Optimal Meshes for Ray Tracing
- the article provides an overview of several problematic mesh characteristics that cause an issue f...
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Rendering Layered Materials with Anisotropic Interfaces
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Technically Art: Issue 57 (19.06.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Improving GPU Profiling on Oculus Quest
- overview of two new libraries developed by Oculus and Qualcomm to expose low
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Implementing Stochastic Levels of Detail with Microsoft DirectX Raytracing
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Oodle Texture slashes game sizes
- the article explains how Oodle Texture can prepare BC textures in such a way that secondary ...
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Announcing CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
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Detecting Bias in Monte Carlo Renderers using Welch’s t-test
- the paper presents to Welch’s statistical t-test can be used to detect bias even with low sample c...
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Top Nine Questions About the ‘Ray Tracing Essentials’ series from Developers
- the article contains the answers to some common question viewers of the Ray Tracing Essentia...
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GPU Optimization for GameDev
- an extensive collection resource covering various aspects of GPU optimizations
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Creating shader animation in Unity
- the article presents how to create a running rat animation using a vertex shader
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From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: The First Triangle
- the first part of a WebGPU series shows the necessary steps required to render the first tri...
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From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: Bind Groups
- this tutorial explains how to bind resources and uses this to add basic camera movement support
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Can’t Invert the CDF? The Triangle-Cut Parameterization of the Region under the Curve
- the paper presents a technique that allows Cumulative Distribution Functions that cannot be ...
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The Forge - Raytracing Benchmarks
- overview of cross-platform raytracing abstraction in "The Forge" and a summary of performanc...
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A Scalable and Production Ready Sky and Atmosphere Rendering Technique
- the paper presents the sky and atmosphere model developed by Epic Games that support dynamic...
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[video] Flowmaps, gradient maps, gas giants
- the video tutorial explains UV animation, extending this to support varying animations betwe...
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Followup tidbits on RGBE
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The Center of the Pixel is (0.5,0.5)
- the article explains how to deal with pixel coordinates correctly
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Real-Time Ray Tracing Summit
- an online summit with talks about ray tracing topics
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Preliminary HPG 2020 Program
- program for talks that will be presented as part of high
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Fast 2D rendering on GPU
- the article provides an overview of an algorithm for GPU based rendering of 2D vector graphics
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High Fidelity Graphics for games with HDRP
- the talk from Unit presents techniques required for best results with Unity High definition render...
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Parallel CSG Operations on GPU
- the article presents how a CSG Operation implementation based around point clouds has been designe...
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Animated Light Cookie Shader (Cloud & Tree Shadows)
- the Unity tutorial shows how to dynamically generate light blocker textures to simulate clouds and...
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[Video] EG / STARs 5 / Neural Rendering / Wednesday
- the collection of talks for the field of neural rendering methods
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Fake vs True Displacement - Part 1/2
- the two-part article series shows the difference between Bump
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Perceptually Smooth Multi-Color Linear Gradients
- the notebook shows how to interpolate gradients in a perceptually smooth way using Catmull Rom spl...
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[Video] Optimizing Roblox: Vulkan Best Practices for Mobile Developers
- Vulkan talks that cover the Vulkan sample framework, load/store operations, sub
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Quadrant-Sizing for Efficient UI Rendering
- the author presents his implementation of a UI element system that allows arbitrary object scaling...
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Distance Field Ray Tracing Part 1: Volume Textures and Ray Marching Primer
- the UE4 tutorial is a primer on how to build distance field shapes and use raymarching from volume...
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Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 3: Fresnel, Rough Refraction & Absorption, Orbit Camera
- path 3 of path tracing shows how to extend the materials to support fresnel as well as reflection ...
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Work-Efficiency vs. Step-Efficiency
- the article discusses how to classify GPGPU work into the critical sequential work and the total a...
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Widespread error in Radiance HDR RGBE conversions
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Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 2: Image Improvement and Glossy Reflections
- part 2 of path tracing implementation series, adding Glossy reflection Anti
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SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 35 – Real-Time, Ray Tracing, and Realism
- Podcast episode with Arisa Scott (Unity), Eric Haines (NVIDIA), Mike Hardison (Blizzard Entertainm...
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How to evenly distribute points on a sphere more effectively than the canonical Fibon...
- the article explains how to use to distribute points onto the surface of a sphere
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LunarG releases GFXReconstruct, a new Vulkan Capture/Replay Tool, with SDK 1.2.141
- new Vulkan SDK now contains the Microsoft Shader Compiler
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SPIR-V Guide
- this guide is designed to explain SPIR-V, what to use it for and present an overview of the intern...
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Writing Shader Code for the Universal RP
- Shader guide that explains how to write Unity shaders that are compatible with the Universal Rend...
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Messed up 3D Meshes: A case study in the limits of integer floating point
- the article shows problems of floating-point precision in the model export pipeline
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Ambient Occlusion
- the presentation explains what Ambient Occlusion is, and provides an overview of different algorit...
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Real-time Cubism Shader
- presents a method to implement a Cubism effect, similar to what can be seen in "Spider
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Sharpening the renderer
- the article presents Contrast Adaptive Sharpening and how it's used in EVE to make details on ship...
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Texture Generation Part 2: Normal Swizzling
- Unity tutorial that shows to mix Normal map correctly
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Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 1: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive
- A tutorial that shows a practical walkthrough on how to implement a path tracer in shadertoy
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Curving Corner Texture UVs
- the article shows how to generate UVs for curved corners using Unity
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Iterating on Variable Rate Shading in Gears Tactics
- the articles present how the VRS (Variable Rate Shading) implementation was approached
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Civilization VI Fog of War
- This Unity tutorial explains how to implement a Civilization VI style fog of war system
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New geometry pipeline in Magnum
- the articles describe the design of the new geometry (import) pipeline of the Magnum engine
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The design and evolution of the UberBake light baking system
- A global illumination system developed by Activision
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Progressing in Circles
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Technically Art: Issue 56 (29.05.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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A survey of temporal antialiasing techniques: presentation notes
- authors notes on the Survey of Temporal Antialiasing Techniques talk from the Eurographics 2020 vi...
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Point and Spot Lights Lights with Limited Influence
- the next part in a Unity tutorial series on the scriptable render pipeline
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Borderland between Rendering and Editor — Part 2: Picking
- the article explains how the GPU based picking system in "Our Machinery" has been implemented
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 19 - portals
- the article shows how the portal rendering effect in The Witcher 3 has been implemented
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Stochastic Substitute Trees for Real-Time Global Illumination
- a GI algorithm based around tracing Virtual point lights (VPLs), converting clusters of VPLs into ...
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Dimensionality reduction for image and texture set compression
- detailed post presents the idea of “decorrelating” color channels to maximize information in textu...
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DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
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Video: Gears 5 – High-Gear Visuals On Multiple Platforms
- relaxed cone step mapping for relief mapping to add more details
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From Built-in to URP
- collection of concepts, macros, shader logics, that exists in unity build
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Vulkan Helper Libraries Survey
- Khronos questionary that presents a list of suggestion for possible vulkan helper libraries
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Making a clean (mini)map using Navmesh and a Shader
- Unity tutorial that shows how to use a navmesh as a base for minimap rendering
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Accelerating Ray Tracing with Origin Offsets
- the paper proposed a new method that aims to improve ray tracing by offsetting ray starting point ...
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Texture Generation
- A unity tutorial that shows how to blend multiple textures together and save them to disk using Un...
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Technically Art: Issue 55 (22.05.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Welcome to the joint conferences, Eurographics & Eurovis 2020
- Eurographics & Eurovis 2020 conference will be virtual and streamed starting May 25
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Quick Introduction to Mesh Shaders (OpenGL and Vulkan)
- brief overview and introduction into Mesh Shaders using OpenGL and Vulkan
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Optimizing for the RDNA architecture: presentation notes
- collection of notes about the content of the AMD talk presenting the AMD RDNA architecture and GPU...
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Rendered #1
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Spatiotemporal reservoir resampling for real-time ray tracing with dynamic direct lig...
- the paper presents a new technique that allows a massive number of dynamic lights to be rendered i...
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Let's build ... 2020
- AMD virtual event that contains talks about - Ryzen™ Processor Software Optimization
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Technically Art: Issue 54 (15.05.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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I haz a GDC talk - Real-Time CSG
- overview of what Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) is and workflows
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Getting started with Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV)
- the post provides an overview of the new AMD memory profiler for Vulkan and D3D12
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Using Blue Noise For Raytraced Soft Shadows
- the article shows how to calculate the shadows from the sun
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Ray Marching Fog With Blue Noise
- the article presents how using blue noise can improve ray marching results
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Frame Analysis - Minecraft RTX Beta
- presents a breakdown of the RTX implementation for Minecraft
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Some brief thoughts on how Nanite in UE5 possibly works....
- the author presents his ideas about how the Nanite technology in the UE5 tech demo might be implem...
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Some thoughts on Unreal 5's Nanite - in way too many words
- the article that discusses possible ideas on how the UE5 nanite technology might be implemented
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NVIDIA Ampere Architecture In-Depth
- an overview of the new Nvidia Ampere Architecture aimed at compute workloads
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CUDA 11 Features Revealed
- overview of new features in CUDA 11 and how the NVIDIA Ampere GPU hardware features are exposed
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 7: Denoising for Ray Tracing
- the final part of raytracing series - presents what denoising techniques are and why they are requ...
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a history of nvidia stream multiprocessor
- the article presents an overview of the Nvidia GPU architecture and how they developed over time
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Rendering volumetric clouds using signed distance fields
- presents a technique that combines singed distance fields and ray marching to render static volume...
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Monte Carlo Geometry Processing: A Grid-Free Approach to PDE-Based Methods on Volumet...
- the paper presents how to apply the monte-carle methods to geometry processing
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On Ray Reordering Techniques for Faster GPU Ray Tracing
- the paper presents an overview of ray sorting techniques and introduces a new method for ray sorti...
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A perceptual model of motion quality for rendering with adaptive refresh-rate and res...
- this paper presents the results of testing done into human perception, comparing test
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[video] Animal Crossing, wobbly leaves, pivot caching.
- the Video presents an overview of a shader technique implementing the behavior of leaves in Animal...
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Point of WebGPU on native
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GPU architecture resources
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CUDA Refresher: Getting started with CUDA
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Meshlete - Chop 3D objects to meshlets
- a tool to generate meshlets for use with compute based culling algorithms or mesh shaders
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Real-time Shadows
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Physically-Based Materials – Energy Conservation and Reciprocity
- the article presents the definition of a physically
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Prefix sum on Vulkan
- the article presents how to implement a prefix sum using Vulkan compute shaders
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Depth-Based Post Effects
- the Unity tutorial explains how to use the depth texture to apply a localized toon shading effect
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Profiling DXR Shaders with Timer Instrumentation
- new Nvidia extension for D3D12 that provides shaders the possibility to query timestamps from with...
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Complex Maps Masks, Details, and Normals
- next part in the Unity Tutorial series about implementing a custom scriptable rendering pipeline
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[video] Tech Focus: What Is VRS And Is It A Next-Gen Game-Changer? Variable Rate Shad...
- the video provides an overview of Variable Rate Shading (VRS)
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Frame Analysis - Mortal Kombat 11
- breakdown of the rendering techniques used in Mortal Kombat 11
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It’s time we talk about TDR
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Fast Subsurface Scattering for the Unity URP
- the article presents the Wrapped lighting technique to emulate subsurface scattering
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Volumetric Rendering Part 1
- this part of the article on volumetric rendering shows how to model a volume using an SDF inside o...
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Volumetric Rendering Part 2
- the second part of the article presents how to render the volumetrics
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UE4 - Physical light unit - Twitter Thread
- Twitter thread about the complexities of different light measuring units
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flowchart for descriptor set setup in Vulkan
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CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study
- list of games studios and which custom engines they are using
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Twitter thread - using quaternions
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Improving the quality of the alpha test (cutout) materials
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Debugging refraction in a sphere
- presents a test setup that explains how to validate ray refraction within a sphere
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From WebGL to WebGPU in Construct
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 6: The Rendering Equation
- part of the ray tracing series covering the rendering equation
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Vulkan - Debug Printf
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[video] Ratchet & Clank Pixelizer FX in Unity
- the Unity video tutorial explains how to implement an effect that converts a 3D mesh into a voxeli...
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Blurred rounded rectangles
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UE4 Texture/Material/Cascade optimization tips
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Floating World Shader Part 5 – Ocean Material
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The Technical Interview [LEAKED]
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Bilinear texture filtering – artifacts, alternatives, and frequency domain analysis
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validating physical light units
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godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms
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Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2020 papers on the web
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 5: Ray Tracing Effects
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nvidia webinar - ray tracing essentials
- Eric Haines will be giving a webinar on May 12 - explains concepts related to ray tracing, compari...
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Intro to gfx-hal • Part 3: Vertex buffers
- part 3 of Rust gfx-hal intro series - shows all the steps required including binary serialization ...
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Implementing a Physically Based Shading without locking yourself in
- presentation from revision - focuses on the physics of light interaction with matters
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Introducing Low-Level GPU Virtual Memory Management
- Cuda introduces new memory management functionality
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Secrets of Direct3D 12: Resource Alignment
- the article shows that the D3D12 alignment requirement rules have an exception for small textures ...
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3 Techniques for Dynamically Colored UI Graphics
- the article presents 3 different techniques for Unity that allow the color of UI elements to be dy...
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[video] A Taste of GPU Compute
- talks aimed at computer science students starting to get started with GPU technology
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Frame Analysis - Overwatch
- the article and video and present a high-level overview of the rendering passes of Overwatch
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Life stories: the Glimpse Renderer – part 1
- Part 1, [2](https://maxliani.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/life
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Evolving Path of Exile's Renderer
- the talk presents an overview of rendering features developed for Path of Exile
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Virtual machine for executing SPIR-V
- A virtual machine that is written in C enables executing of a subset of SPIR
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Speeding Up Lighthouse 2
- presents operations that reduced the shading time required from 21.58ms to 13.52ms
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Artists’ best practices for mobile game development
- A guide aimed at technical artists to preset best practices for geometry, texture, material and sh...
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Optimizing Trilinear Interpolation
- the article presents implementations optimizations to speedup trilinear filtering
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Updated Article Database Design
- The database of articles included in this series has been updated with a new look
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NVIDIA Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorials
- collection of Vulkan tutorials for the VK_KHR_ray_tracing extension
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Using Nsight Systems for Fixing Stutters in Games
- the article shows how Nsight was used for debugging a frame stutter bug in the Vulkan raytracing i...
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Optimizing VK/VKR and DX12/DXR Applications Using Nsight Graphics: GPU Trace Advanced...
- the post presents how to use Nsight to apply the Peak
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Paper Burn Shader in Unity
- this Unity tutorial explains how to implement a burning effect for paper
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Intro to gfx-hal • Part 1: Drawing a triangle
- part 1 of rust graphics programming series using the rust gfx hal
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Intro to gfx-hal • Part 2: Push constants
- the second part of the tutorial series extends the example so that Vulkan push constants can be us...
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physical lighting quantities: tying both ends
- the article presents a method that allows validation of a physical camera model against ground tru...
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Seven Things for March 31, 2020
- collection of links and graphics community news such as ACM Digitial library being free, I3D pospo...
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Biquadratic interpolation with independent sample weights
- the article shows how to use quadratic interpolation for depth aware upsampling
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GTC 2020: DLSS - Image Reconstruction for Real-time Rendering with Deep Learning
- the GTC talks provide an overview of Deep Learning Super Sampling
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Terrain and Mesh Blending in Unity
- his Unity tutorial shows one way of blending meshes that are close to the terrain with the terrain...
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Unmasking the Arkham Knight
- the article presents a breakdown of the rendering stages found in the PC version of Batman: Arkham...
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GTC 2020: RTXGI: Scalable Ray Traced Global Illumination in Real Time
- the GTC presentation explains how the technique aims to replace existing indirect lighting techniq...
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ACM TechTalk - Ed Catmull & Richard Chuang
- ACM tech talk with Ed Catmull & Richard Chuang happening on Tuesday, April 14
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An Efficient Transport Estimator for Complex Layered Materials
- the paper presents a new technique to speed up the rendering of complex, layered materials
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A new method to construct isotropic blue-noise point sets with uniform projections
- the article presents a method for direct construction of tileable isotropic blue noise
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a little thread on a neat way to interpolate across a triangle!
- A twitter thread that explains what barycentric coordinates are and how they are commonly used in ...
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Hierarchical Depth Buffers
- the article presents what Hierarchical depth buffers are, what they are used for and how to genera...
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[Video] Commandos Cone of Sight FX in Unity | GPUMAN
- the Unity tutorial explains how to implement a cone of sight that is occluded by objects
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Links to GDC 2020 Talks and More
- collection of link resources from GDC, GTC - additional resources from Google, Intel, Ubisoft and ...
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PIX 2003.26 – DirectX 12 Ultimate and DXIL debugging
- new Pix for Windows release with support for DXR 1.1, Mesh shaders and sampler feedback
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NVIDIA Announces Nsight Graphics 2020.2
- GPU Trace and Nsight Aftermath now supports Vulkan
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Augmenting shader languages for modern rendering APIs
- the author presents his domain-specific language and how it's used to extend shaders
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Vulkan Mobile Best Practices - Management of Command Buffers and Multi-Threaded Recor...
- the article presents best practices for multithreaded command recording with Vulkan
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WebGL best practices
- the article contains many best practices for WebGL applications
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Introducing OpenCL™ and OpenGL® on DirectX
- Microsoft and Collabora are working together to implement an OpenCL and OpenGL layer for Mesa that...
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Multi-Adapter with Integrated and Discrete GPUs
- presentation from Intel that presents how to use multiple adapters with D3D12
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Variable Rate Shading Tier 1 with Microsoft DirectX* 12 from Theory to Practice
- the presentation provides an overview of Variable Rate Shading (VRS), explaining what shading and ...
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RTX Global Illumination SDK Now Available
- Nvidia released the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK v1.0
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Announcing the NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter 2020.1
- Nvidia released a new version of the DDS exporter
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Announcing DirectX 12 Ultimate
- post containing an overview of the new D3D12 Feature level 12_2 now called DirectX 12 Ultimate
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Shaders For People Who Don't Know How To Shader: Smooth blending with Sine
- the Unity tutorial shows how to use color masks to apply runtime coloring with smooth blending to ...
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Ray Tracing In Vulkan
- the post provides an overview of the new Vulkan raytracing extensions
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[video] Reinventing the Geometry Pipeline: Mesh Shaders in DirectX 12 | Shawn Hargrea...
- the presentation provides an overview of mesh shaders
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[video] Advanced Mesh Shaders | Martin Fuller
- build upon the @Reinventing the Geometry Pipeline: Mesh Shaders in DirectX 12" talks summarized ab...
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DirectX 12 Sampler Feedback | Claire Andrews
- the video provides an overview of the new Sampler Feedback feature added to D3D12
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Nvidia - DirectX
- overview articles by Nvidia for D3D12 Ray Tracing, Mesh shading, Variable Rate Shading, and Sample...
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New: Vulkan Device Generated Commands
- the article describes the VK_NV_device_generated_commands extension for Vulkan
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Enable Ray Tracing: Two-Level Acceleration Structure
- the article presents an overview of a BVH structure for GPU raytracing
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Fresnel Equations, Schlick Approximation, Metals, and Dielectrics
- the post presents the fresnel equations that are used for smooth metals and surfaces such as water...
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 18 - color grading
- Reverse engineering the color grading solution used in "The Witcher 3"
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Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions!
- the article aimed at beginners presents how to use ShaderToy to get started with shader developmen...
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Aliasing in computer graphics
- the article presents an overview of aliasing in digital signal processing
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Sprite Glow/Outline Shader Breakdown
- the Unity tutorial shows how to create an outline effect for 2D sprites
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Vulkan Best Practices: Frequently Asked Questions - Part 2
- discusses buffer allocation, update and mapping strategies
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A Simple GPU Hash Table
- the post discusses how to write a simple GPU Hash table implementation using CUDA
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Interior SDFs
- the article presents that combining signed distance fields of primitives using min and max operati...
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 4: The Ray Tracing Pipeline
- part 4 of ray tracing series by Nvidia - this episode focuses on the RayTracing APIs in D3D and Vu...
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The Division ECHO Fx In Unity | GPUMAN
- Video tutorial for Unity that shows how to present the Echo effect (a point
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Why DXR 1.1 vs 1.0?
- overview of what is new with DXR 1.1 - presents how to extend a depth pre
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ASTC Format Overview
- the document provides an overview of the ASTC texture compression format
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Automated Performance Advice for Android Games
- the article presents how to use new ARM tools to gather performance information (later versions wi...
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How Epic Games is handling auto exposure in 4.25
- the article explains how exposure used to work in Unreal Engine 4.24
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 17 - the Milky Way
- the article shows how the milky way rendering from the Witcher 3
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Paper Shader in Unity
- A Unity tutorial that focuses on the deformation of a plane to create a crumbled paper look
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How to do boolean operations on meshes for procedural cutting of geometry!
- the post provides an overview of an algorithm for boolean operations on geometry
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 3: Ray Tracing Hardware
- part 3 of Nvidia ray tracing series - this part focuses on the history of ray tracing hardware and...
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An idiot's guide to animation compression
- the article discusses techniques to compress data for skeletal animation data used for game runtim...
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GL_NV_mesh_shader Simple Mesh Shader Example
- a very brief high-level overview of mesh shaders and necessary OpenGL extension
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Secrets of Direct3D 12: Copies to the Same Buffer
- the article presents multiple scenarios in D3D12 where manual barrier synchronization is required
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Borderland between Rendering and Editor - Part 1
- the post focuses on efficient and high-quality grid rendering for "The Machinery" editor
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Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer
- copy of an article that was published in GPU Zen 2, updated for changes introduced with Vulkan 1.1...
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 2: Rasterization versus Ray Tracing
- video comparing rasterization and ray-tracing algorithm
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A Survey of Temporal Antialiasing Techniques
- the paper presents an overview of Temporal Antialiasing (TAA) techniques, the history, different i...
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Compact PBR texture packing and blending experiment with Shader Graph
- presents findings from compressing PBR material information into a single texture
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Vulkan Mobile Best Practices: Frequently Asked Questions - Part 1
- A FAQ for Vulkan best practices guide by ARM - swap chain acquisition, image transitions, device l...
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[video] Two Minute Papers - The Story of Light
- the 7-min video provides a walk through the history of light transport research
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fast trisect in GLSL
- the article presents an approximation to the GLSL trisect function
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Basic Skeletal Animation with Geometric Algebra
- the tutorial shows how to implement a skeletal animation system using Geometric Algebra (GA)
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Packing UVs for deferred materials
- the article presents how to pack UV and gradients (ddx, ddy) into 32
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Sprite Stencil Overlay Breakdown (Forward Renderer)
- the Unity tutorial shows how to implement a checkerboard pattern if a 2D player is behind another ...
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sokol_gfx.h Backend Tour
- a 3 part series that provides an overview of the backend implementations of sokol_gfx for the Open...
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Bringing HLSL Ray Tracing to Vulkan
- Nvidia added support to the DirectX Shader Compiler (DXR) to generate SPIR
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Ways to speedup pixel shader execution
- the article presents an overview of techniques to optimize pixel shaders
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 16 - shooting stars
- the author presents how shooting stars in the Witcher 3 are implemented
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Sampling Analytic Participating Media
- the in-depth article presents the physical models and approximations of participating media (such ...
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Data Driven Rendering: Pipelines
- the newest part in article series about defining a data
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Shader Graph Conversion : Eyeball Shader
- the Unity tutorial explains how to implement a stylized Eyeball Shader using Unity Shader Graph
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Rendering Particles with Compute Shaders
- presents an approach to render particle effects using compute shaders
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LunarG Vulkan Ecosystem & SDK Survey Results
- the results from the Vulkan survey have been released
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Unity Toy Path Tracer
- the article presents how to implement a Path Tracer using the Unity Data
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Handling Device Orientation Efficiently in Vulkan With Pre-Rotation
- the article describes how to deal with device orientation changes in a Vulkan application efficien...
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Coherency gathering in ray tracing: the benefits of hardware ray tracking
- the article presents the problems with ray tracing in terms of divergence workflows
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Create nice and feasible volumetric cloud in Unreal Engine 4
- the blog posts presents how to use high quality volumetric fog in UE4 to simulate ground level rol...
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Minions Art Tutorials
- collections of art, unity tutorials and shader introduction articles
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How to Correctly Interpolate Vertex Attributes on a Parallelogram Using Modern GPUs?
- article presents how to use barycentric coordinates in a pixel shader to manually interpoliate val...
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Shaders For People Who Don't Know How To Shader: Deferred
- the article presents a brief overview of what deferred shading is
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GPU resources
- collection of gpu resources - links to details about hardware, shader languages, and WebGPU
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Reaching for the stars
- the Unity article describes how to generate a stylized procedualr skybox
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Instancing and Material Property Blocks
- the Unity tutorials shows how to use Material Property Blocks
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Four Color Gradient
- beginner Unity shader tutorial that shows how to implement a gradient made from 4 colors forming a...
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Journey Sand Shader: Ripples
- last part of Unity shader torial that shows how to add ripples into the sand dunes
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How to Calculate Shader Graph Normals
- Unity tutorial that shows how to calculate new normals from a vertex shader
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Generating Perfect Normal Maps for Unity (and Other Programs)
- the article shows what needs to be considered when baking normal maps for use with separate applic...
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A Fun 2d Rotation Matrix Derivation
- the article shows a connection between "2D cross product", Complex Numbers and 2D rotation matrice...
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Normal matrices are overrated
- the tweet shows an alternative formulation for a normal transformation matrix (required when non
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Dissolve Shader Breakdown
- the Unity shader breakdown explains how to dissolve a mesh using a combination of noise and height...
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A Scalable Real-Time Many-Shadowed-Light Rendering System
- Siggraph presentation showcasing a shadow system that enables thousands of shadowed
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Wave Function Collapse tips and trick
- the article presents an overview of the Wave Function Collapse algorithm
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Shadow Terminator in Takua
- the article presents a comparison between techniques to solve the harsh shadow terminator problem
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Approximating Subsurface Scattering With Spherical Gaussians
- the article shows a breakdown on how to approximate subsurface scattering from a point light using...
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Separate your filters! Separability, SVD and low-rank approximation of 2D image proce...
- the article presents the basics of Singular Value Decomposition
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Volumetric Clouds Resources List
- a collection of articles, presentations and other resources covering volumetric cloud render...
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Building WebGPU with Rust
- the presentation provides an overview of the development of WebGPU
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2D Sprite Overlay Effects
- short Unity tutorial that shows how to use sprites to simulate screenspace effects such as d...
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Baked Light Light Maps and Probes
- the tutorial shows how light baking is implemented in Unity
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Optimizing Game Development with GPU Performance Events
- the article presents Do’s and Don’ts for the use of GPU performance events
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World space UVs & Triplanar Mapping
- the Unity tutorial shows how WorldSpace positions can be used to texture planar object
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Vulkan: Bad Practices
- the article presents several Vulkan patterns that cause reduced performance and should be av...
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Progressive Least-Squares Encoding for Linear Bases
- the paper presents a GPU compatible algorithm for processive approximation least
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Learning from data
- the article presents how ordering mesh data can influence rendering performance
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Using AMD FreeSync™ Premium Pro HDR: Code Samples
- the article shows how to enable AMD FreeSync using D3D12 and Vulkan
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Khronos Group Releases Vulkan 1.2
- Vulkan 1.2 has been released - this release promotes [23 extensions](https://www.khronos.org/regis...
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D3D12 Translation Layer and D3D11On12 are now open source
- Microsoft open-sourced two layers to help to port to D3D12
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Performance Evaluation of Acceleration Structures for Cone Tracing Traversal
- the paper examines k-d trees and bounding volume hierarchies
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Vulkan Timeline Semaphores
- the article discusses the new timeline semaphore synchronization API included in Vulkan 1.2
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Calculates view space 3D sphere extents on the screen
- the code snippet shows how to screenspace extends of a sphere from view space
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Projective Geometric Algebra Done Right
- the article presents how Grassmann (Geometric) Algebra extends four
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Stylized Lava Shader
- the Unity tutorial explains how to achieve a stylized lava effect
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Shader Graph Stylized Lava
- the Unity tutorial shows to implement the stylized lava effect discussed in the previous article u...
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An Opinionated Post on Modern Rendering Abstraction Layers
- the author presents his opinions about how a rendering abstraction layer should be designed
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Accurate Normal Reconstruction from Depth Buffer
- presents an improved precision method for normal reconstruction from depth buffers
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HLSL Viewport Clamping trick
- the article presents a few approaches to skybox rendering
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Ray Guiding for Production Lightmap Baking
- the paper introduces a technique for improving the computation time required for lightmap baking
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Real-Time Ray-Tracing in WebGPU
- the article shows how to use Node bindings to enable RTX support when using WebGPU
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UV-Based Nodes
- the article presents the shader nodes from Unity ShaderGraph system
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Correct sRGB Dithering
- the article presents code and explains the logic behind correct dithering patterns that preserve t...
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Clustered shading evolution in Granite
- the article shows an overview of deferred shading techniques
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Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.7
- new release of AMD profiler that introduces a new pipeline overview view and adds new overlays for...
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How to Optimize your Oculus Quest App w/ RenderDoc: Walkthroughs of Key Usage Scenari...
- the article shows how to use RenderDoc to identify issues and how to alleviate them
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Inverse Lerp and Remap
- a short Unity tutorial that explains inverse lerp function
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NVIDIA VRSS, a Zero-Effort Way to Improve Your VR Image Quality
- the latest Nvidia driver update introduce Variable Rate Supersampling for D3D11 + MSAA application...
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[video] Shader Coding: Over the Moon - Part 2
- the second part of a shadertoy video tutorial - the tutorial extends the scene to render multiple ...
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[video] Deriving the SDF of a Line Segment
- this video tutorial shows how to derive the signed distance field for a line segment
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Journey Sand Shader: Glitter Reflection
- next part in Unity tutorial series about the rendering of sand
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Mip Map Folding
- a brief summary of mipmapping - shows how mipmapping causes details in glitter effect of sand to b...
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Alpha to Coverage or Anti-Aliased Cutout - TUTORIAL
- the Unity tutorial shows how alpha to coverage allows improved edges on vegetation
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Vulkan hardware database feature update
- update to Vulkan database shows the first driver version an extension/feature has been introduced
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Raw WebGPU
- the article shows how to use the WebGPU API to implement everything required to render a colored t...
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How to learn graphics programming (but not in a hurry): self-study edition!
- Twitter thread about the authors' recommendations about learning graphics programming
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Physically based shading references, at the end of 2019
- collection of resources covering physically based shading
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Toon Glass Shader Breakdown
- the Unity tutorial shows to create a toon style glass shader using shader graph
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The polygons of Another World
- the article shows how the 1991 game Another World is being rendered
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How to Optimize your Oculus Quest App w/ RenderDoc: Walkthroughs of Key Usage Scenari...
- the article shows a collection of usage scenarios and explains what should be done for best ...
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Draw Anti-aliased Lines with Geometry Shader
- the article shows how to render anti-aliased lines
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Journey Sand Shader: Specular Reflection
- part 4 of sand rendering tutorial - adds support for Rim Lighting, Fresnel Reflectance, and ...
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Simulated Exposure Fusion
- the paper extends the Exposure Fusion technique to operate on a single image
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Tile-based optimization for post processing
- the article presents a tile-based classification system for post
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Technically Art: Issue 50 (03.01.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Applying For Technical Art Jobs
- the article provides an overview of the technical artist role
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Two Shader Compilers of Direct3D 12
- the article shows the two different shader compilers for D3D12: the FXC and DXC compiler
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Height Maps & Parallaxing
- the article explains the parallax effect and how it's different from normal mapping
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A new tessellator
- the article describes the algorithm rewire of a vector to triangle mesh tesselator written i...
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Thermal/ Stealth Vision Effect
- the Unity tutorial shows how to implement a thermal view effect
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Technically Art: Issue 49 (27.12.2019)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Procedural Generation - Unity3d Procedurally Generation For Beginners With Random Ins...
- A unity video tutorial that shows how to generate a circle procedurally
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Roblox graphics APIs 2019 - What does the future hold?
- an updated article that presents the latest numbers and what APIs Roblox is currently suppor...
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Sampling Burley's Normalized Diffusion Profiles
- the article presents how to inverse the CDF of the Disney SSS
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Open-Source Ray Tracers and Path Tracers
- a list of open-source ray and path tracers
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Developers Show Off Amazing Real-Time Ray-Traced Projects in New DXR Spotlight Contes...
- collection of games that have been selected by Nvidia as excellent showcases for the use of ...
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Ray Tracing Essentials, Part 1: Basics of Ray Tracing
- the first part of the video series that will explain the basics of ray
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Mitsuba 2: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer
- the recording of a talk presents an overview of the architecture of the Mitsuba 2 renderer
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Part 23: Intro to Unity's Specular Workflow
- the unity tutorial provides a brief overview of the specular workflow compared with the meta...
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The Simple, Flexible, Octasphere
- the article shows a UV sphere, icosphere and proposes the octasphere
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Matrices for Tech Artists, non Affine Transformations
- the article presents transformations around an arbitrary axis and points
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Digital Foundry's Best Game Graphics Of 2019: The Year's Best Tech In Review!
- video review by Digital Foundry of the games released in 2019s
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Writing a ray marcher in Unity
- the video tutorial shows how to write a ray marcher in a unity pixel shader
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Integrating FidelityFX into the Ego Engine
- the article presents how to integrate FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) compute ...
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Light Saber Breakdown
- the article shows how to use a vertex shader to animate the vertices for a lightsaber effect
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AMD “Vega” 7nm Instruction Set Architecture documentation
- Instruction Set Architecture provides an overview of how Vega architecture is designed
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PowerVR SDK and Tools 2019 Release 2 now available
- the article provides an overview of new features of the PowerVR SDK
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Three years of Metal
- the article provides an overview of the experience using metal over the last 3 years
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Technically Art: Issue 47 (13.12.2019)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Part 22: Skyboxes
- the Unity tutorial shows how to create a skybox shader that uses a gradient defined by two colors
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Ray tracing on the WEB
- a web-based ray tracing framework that exposes programmable stages based on GLSL for rapid prototy...
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Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering
- the blog details the mathematical approach of Monte
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Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering Part 2
- the article extends the knowledge from part 1 to the domain of solving the rendering equation
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Writing a Shader Effect Language Part 3: Materials
- the article presents an exploration of a material system designed for Vulkan requirements
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Collection of light transport papers
- an extensive collection of light transport papers
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Bezier Triangles
- the article shows the possibility of using Bezier Triangles to store arbitrary and use this as a l...
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PIX 1911.27 – New Buffer Formatter and Capture from Launch
- new PIX version allows the creation of custom buffer formats and saves/restore those
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collection of tweets showcasing a large number of effects, games and technical art re...
- collection of tweets showcasing a large number of effects, games and technical art resources...
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IMG A-Series: the GPU for generation 2020
- new GPU architecture by Imagination Technologies (PowerVR)
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A New Language for Sparse Data
- the article presents an overview of the Taichi programming language
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Proof of the Sampling Method for Visible GGX
- the article describes the Visible GGX distribution (vGGX) sampling method
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How to Optimize your Oculus Quest App w/ RenderDoc: Getting Started + Frame Capture
- begins with an overview of RenderDoc functionality
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My take on shaders: Grass Shader (Part II)
- part 2 of the grass shader, part 1 was discussed in issues [105](https://www.jendrikillner.c...
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Matrices for Tech Artists, a Cheat Sheet
- the article provides an overview of matrices
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Rust Game Series - Part 5 - D3D11 Device and Swap Chain creation
- part of Rust game programming series - the article shows how to call D3D11 from Rust
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PowerVR PerfDoc – Performance Validation for PowerVR
- fork of the PerfDoc performance layer to detect performance issues on PowerVR hardware
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Exploring SculptrVR’s efficient lighting solution for the Oculus Quest
- the article provides an overview of the lighting model used by SculptrVR
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NVIDIA Variable Rate Shading Demonstrated in Autodesk VRED
- the article provides an easy to understand overview of Variable Rate Shading
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Partial Derivatives (fwidth)
- the tutorial explains the ddx and ddy shader functions
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Making a Glass Shader, Part 1: GrabPass & Refraction
- the Unity tutorial shows how to use transparency to create a look through the object
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Making a Glass Shader, Part 2: Highlights & Reflections
- part 2 of the shader glass material shader tutorial with Unity
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Directional Lights Direct Illumination
- this Unity tutorial shows how to use the scriptable rendering pipeline to implement up to 4 direct...
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YUV sampling in Vulkan – a niche and complicated feature – VK_KHR_ycbcr_sampler_conve...
- the article provides a brief overview of the YUV/YCbCr colorspace and a few complications with it ...
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Positional Effects (Scattered Objects Moving Back / Growing Flowers)
- brief unity tutorial that shows how to implement effects that are based on the player position
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RGB/XYZ Conversion Matrix Accuracy
- the article shows the matrices between XYZ colors and sRGB colors
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PC Rendering Techniques to Avoid when Developing for Mobile VR
- the article presents an overview of techniques that are not a good fit for mobile VR applications
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Technically Art: Issue 44 (22.11.2019)
- collection of tweets showcasing a large number of effects, games and technical art resources
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Part 20: Post Processing Effects & Chromatic Aberration
- a unity tutorial that explains how to create a post
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Normal map compositing using the surface gradient framework in Shader Graph
- the article shows how the surface gradient framework (discussed in issue [102](/post/graphics
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Vulkan Releases Extension to Expose Cross-Vendor Performance Metrics
- a new Vulkan extension that allows developers to query performance metrics from the GPU
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Applying for Entry Level Graphics Jobs in Games
- overview of advice by the author on what candidates should be focusing on if they are interested i...
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Open-Source Real-Time Rendering Engines and Libs
- list of open-source rendering engines and helper libraries
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[#78] Podcast time! & PBR Theory for Artists - Part one
- podcast episode for artists - contains a collection of links to other articles related to PBR rend...
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The RTX Shader Binding Table Three Ways
- provides an overview of the raytracing execution model
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2019 Reboot Develop Red
- links to Vulkan presentations and videos from Reboot Develop Red
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Latency of 30 ms Matters More Than Refresh Rate Above 60 Hz for First Person Targetin...
- research by Nvidia that investigates the influence of latency reduction and higher frame rates in ...
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Instanced Line Rendering
- the article explains how to render lines - extends the method to support different styles of line ...
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DeepFovea: Neural Reconstruction for Foveated Rendering and Video Compression using L...
- the paper presents a new technique that uses a neural network to reconstruct foveated rendering fr...
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Coming to DirectX 12: D3D9On12 and D3D11On12 Resource Interop APIs
- the article provides an overview of the new API that allows users to request the underlying D3D12 ...
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Journey Sand Shader: Sand Normal
- the article proposes a technique that uses a random texture to perturb the normals of dunes to sim...
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Vulkan Mobile Best Practices - Descriptor and Buffer Management
- the article provides an overview of how Vulkan descriptor set management influences CPU performanc...
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Coming to DirectX 12: More control over memory allocation
- D3D12 is adding two new flags for memory heap creation
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Improving Particle Systems on PowerVR
- brief article explains how to detect particle overdraw using the PowerVR profiler
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Technically Art: Issue 43 (15.11.2019)
- collection of tweets showcasing a large number of effects, games and technical art resources
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On Histogram-Preserving Blending for Randomized Texture Tiling
- the paper presents a modification of histogram-preserving tiling algorithm discussed in [issue 45]...
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Coming to DirectX 12— Mesh Shaders and Amplification Shaders: Reinventing the Geometr...
- the article explains the problem with the classic GPU geometry pipeline
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DirectX Raytracing (DXR) Tier 1.1
- the article explains what has been added with DXR tier 1.1
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Vulkan-Guide
- new Vulkan guide by Khronos - a crucial starting point for getting started with Vulkan
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Coming to DirectX 12— Sampler Feedback: some useful once-hidden data, unlocked
- the article presents the use-case of the streaming system and texture space shading
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What are use-cases of Texture-Space Shading in DX12, based on current research?
- Twitter thread about possibilities of texture-space shading
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Ray Guiding for Production Lightmap Baking
- the paper introduces a technique for improving the computation time required for lightmap baking
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Image-based Remapping of Spatially-varying Material Appearance
- the paper introduces a technique for translation of materials between different renderers
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[video] Rounding Corners in SDFs
- the video shows how to modify the SDF of any geometrical shape to make its edges more rounded
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Dev Preview of New DirectX 12 Features
- the post introduces new D3D12 features available with latest win10 preview version
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Arm donates Vulkan Best Practice for Mobile Developers to The Khronos Group
- the ARM developed sets of samples to showcase best practices for Vulkan on mobile is now open
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Vulkan Releases Unified Samples Repository
- Khronos published a unified Vulkan Samples Repository
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My take on shaders: Grass Shader (Part I)
- the article shows the Unity shader implementation for stylized and unlit grass
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ray tracing a tiny procedural planet
- starts by showing how to create a small 2D world procedurally
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[video] Deriving the SDF of a Box
- the video presents how to derive the SDF for a box
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SIGGRAPH 2019 Highlight: Finding a Practical Hybrid Anti-Aliasing Algorithm
- summary of SIGGRAPH 2019 for a hybrid solution between temporal anti
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srgb eotf: pure gamma 2.2 function or piece-wise function?
- the article presents the different meaning of the term gamma in different color contexts
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Flow Control on PowerVR – Optimising Shaders
- presents an overview of the difference between static and dynamic branching
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Another Metaballs2 update
- introduction of marching cube pre-pass stage reduces the mesh shader example GPU time by 33% to 50...
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Technically Art: Issue 40 (25.10.2019)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Mesh Texture painting in Unity Using Shaders
- the author presents his solution on how to implement painting onto textures using unity
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A Look Inside D3D12 Resource State Barriers
- the article presents the D3D12 resource state promotion and decay rules related to the common reso...
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GPU Ray Tracing in an Afternoon
- the article presents how the author took the CPU implementation of Ray Tracing in a Weekend and co...
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RLSL - A rust to SPIR-V compiler
- a brief presentation by Embark Studios showing RLSL, a subset of rust compiled to SPIR
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Vulkan Mobile Best Practice: Picking the Most Efficient Load/Store Operations
- the article describes how the architecture of mobile GPUs is different from PC
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Raw DirectX 12
- the tutorial shows the steps necessary to render a single triangle using the D3D12 API
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Massively Parallel Path Space Filtering in Game Development
- excerpt of Siggraph 2019 talk that proposes averaging of neighboring rays into cells
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Radeon™ GPU Analyzer 2.3 for Direct3D® 12 Graphics
- the article shows how to use the Radeon GPU Analyzer to generate hardware native ISA disassembly, ...
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GOON – VOXEL OBJECT
- the article describes a demo scene effect that uses a 2D height map on a flat 2D shaded object to ...
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Handling Depth for Spheretracing
- next part of tutorial series shows how to extend a sphere tracing implementation in Unity to use t...
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A Journey Into Journey’s Sand Shader
- part 1 of a Unity tutorial series about the sand rendering in Journey
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Surface Gradient Based Bump Mapping Framework
- a mathematical framework for more consistent layering of bump/normal maps using linear surface gra...
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Emulating a fake retro GPU in Vulkan compute
- high-level system discussion of a retro GPU emulation implemented in Vulak compute shaders
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RenderDoc - Version v1.5
- new RenderDoc version allows explicit GPU playback selection
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Real-time Rendering of Layered Materials with Anisotropic Normal Distributions
- proposal of approach for rendering layered materials
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Living with Vulkan and DirectX 12
- the post describes the perspective from Stardock on D3D12/Vulkan vs. D3D11
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Progressive Real-Time Rendering of One Billion Points Without Hierarchical Accelerati...
- proposes a real-time solution to rendering unstructured point clouds
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Denoising as a Building Block
- provides an overview of the foundations of denoising techniques
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An Introduction To Real-Time Subsurface Scattering
- in-depth article that provides an overview of subsurface scattering techniques used for games
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Text Rendering Hates You
- the author provides an overview of problems that are encountered and make text rendering system ve...
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Desertscape Simulation
- presents a model to simulate erosion and transport simulation for sand due to wind
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Flexible Ray Traversal with an Extended Programming Model
- the paper proposes the addition of a Traversal Shader stage to the DXR model
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Half The Precision, Twice The Fun: Working With FP16 In HLSL
- the article shows how to use 16-bit floating-point types on PC hardware
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Technically Art: Issue 37 (04.10.2019)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Fractional Brownian Motion
- the article describes the characteristics of Fractional Brownian Motion
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Physically-Based Rendering with PowerVR – Part 2
- the article shows the precalculations steps that enable PBR rendering on mobile devices
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Strand-based Hair Rendering in Frostbite
- the presentation shows the new WIP hair rendering system
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Local linear models and guided filtering – an alternative to bilateral filter
- the article presents guided filtering as an alternative to a bilateral filter
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PIX 1909.23 – New timing capture features, performance improvements and bug fixes
- the new PIX CPU timeline view shows when a thread context switch happened and to where
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Ray Tracing Denoising
- overview of denoising techniques in raytracing applications
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How powerful can WebGL be in comparison with native OpenGL?
- performance comparison of a ray tracer application using native OpenGL against WebGL (Chrome, Fire...
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Custom Render Pipeline Taking Control of Rendering
- Unity tutorial showing how to set up a custom render pipeline
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Technically Art: Issue 36 (27.09.2019)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Multi-resolution Ocean Rendering in Crest Ocean System [280 MB pptx]
- provides an overview of the ocean rendering system
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Improved normal reconstruction from depth
- the article presents what kind of artifacts happen when reconstructing normals from world space po...
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Non-linear sphere tracing for rendering deformed signed distance fields
- the paper presents a method that allows SDFs to be combined with techniques such as linear skinnin...
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Metal Enhancements for A13 Bionic
- overview of what has been improved in the latest apple GPU architecture and metal
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Selectively Metropolised Monte Carlo light transport simulation
- the paper presents a new scheme that allows selectively combining different Monte Carlo rendering ...
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Vertex Assembly and Skinning
- the article explains how vertex shaders in "Our Machinery" engine is handled
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Geometry Reinvented with Mesh Shading
- excerpt from the [Siggraph talk](https://developer.nvidia.com/siggraph/2019/video/sig918
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DRED v1.2 supports PIX marker and event strings in Auto-Breadcrumbs
- DRED can now include PIX markers - additional string events can be attached to markers
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Real-time lightmap baking
- the presentation explains how lightmap baking has been implemented in [Wicked Engine](https://gith...
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Updated Metaballs2 demo
- Metaballs2 demo has been updated - the demo shows how to use mesh shaders and now provides a compu...
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The making of Gears 5: how the Coalition hit 60fps - and improved visual quality
- interview discussing the details of the Gear 5 implementation
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Believable Caustics Reflections
- tutorial explaining how to implement a Caustics effect in unity
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Diagnosing performance issues in Unity
- the article presents an overview of performance methodology to detect performance issues earlier
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WebGPU and WSL in Safari
- overview of the state of WebGPU in safari - Web Shading Language is a new text
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Mip-mapping is hard – importance of keeping your quads full
- looks at the behavior of texture sampling in divergent code flows on different hardware
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Overview of new additions to Vulkan SDK 1.1.121
- GPU assisted validation for VK_EXT_buffer_device_address
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Mitsuba 2: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer
- the paper discusses the design of the Mitsuba 2 renderer
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Technically Art: Issue 34 (13.09.2019)
- collection of tech art tweets, many gifs, and videos showing a large variety of effects and art st...
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Variance-aware multiple importance sampling
- the paper proposes a new weighting heuristic for multiple importance sampling
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Integral formulations of volumetric transmittance
- the paper presents novel integral formulations for volumetric transmittance
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Engineering Career Guide [LEAKED]
- guide by Roblox for the career development of rendering engineers
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Watch the Unity Graphics Sessions from SIGGRAPH 2019
- summary and links to the video recordings from Unity talks at SIGGRAPH 2019
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D3D12 Memory Allocator 1.0.0
- the first release of a new open-source D3D12 memory allocator project by AMD
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My take on shaders: Water Shader
- a walkthrough that explains a Unity water shader implementation
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The Sharpening Curse
- the article discusses the image quality difference between film and realtime rendering
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hybrid screen-space reflections
- the article presents a hybrid technique between Screen space reflections and ray
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Raw OpenGL
- OpenGL tutorial that teaches the concepts required to render a textured mesh
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DirectXShaderCompiler - prebuild releases
- Microsoft is now offering pre-built binaries of the shader compiler on GitHub
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Faster Shadow Rays on RTX
- the article presents different techniques to generate ray traced shadows
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Path Tracing Review
- intro to computer graphics from University of Waterloo summarized in one slide deck
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Mesh Shading: Towards Greater Efficiency Of Geometry Processing (pptx)
- a brief historical look at the rendering pipeline
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Interactive Wind and Vegetation in 'God of War' (2GB pptx!)
- overview of the interactive wind system in God of War
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Creating the Atmospheric World of Red Dead Redemption 2: A Complete and Integrated So...
- a presentation covering the volumetric effects of Red Dead Redemption 2
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AMD RDNA 1.0 Instruction Set Architecture
- instruction set documentation for the new AMD RDNA GPU architecture
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Resident Evil 2 Frame Breakdown
- frame breakdown of a Resident Evil 2 - presents the different stages found in the frame
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Split-free occlusion sorting
- the article discusses how to build a correct CPU occlusion sorting structure
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Are we done with Ray Tracing?
- slides for Siggraph 2019 course - talking about the state of ray
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Chasing Triangles in a Tile-based Rasterizer
- the detailed article explains how to tile-based rasterization works
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siggraph course: path tracing in production 2019
- course notes for the Siggraph 2019 course - part 1 focuses on the necessary background knowledge ...
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Technically Art: Issue 27 (26.07.2019)
- collection of VFX tweets of the week - tutorials, demos, and showcases of great looking effects
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Differences in memory management between Direct3D 12 and Vulkan
- the article discusses memory management in Vulkan and D3D12
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Fresnel Equations Considered Harmful
- presents problems with the Fresnel equations when applied to sRGB data
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Shadertoy media files
- the article contains the links to the build-in Shadertoy media files
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Axis-Aligned Bounding Tetrahedra and Octahedra for Ray Tracing Bounding Volume Hierar...
- presents Axis-Aligned-Bounding-Tetrahedron (AABT) and Axis
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Robust pipeline cache serialization
- provides an overview of Vulkan pipeline caching - list of possible problems that can be encountere...
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High-Performance Graphics 2019
- slides for the High-Performance Graphics 2019 conference are now available
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Physically Based Shading
- A Shadertoy that shows the different components the define physically based rendering
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GPU-Assisted Validation
- GPU based validation in Vulkan has been updated - now supports more cases, the article explains wh...
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Radeon GPU Analyzer 2.2 for Direct3D®12 Compute
- Radeon GPU Analyzer can now compile compute shaders to the target ISA without having to have the G...
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Dot products and planes
- an article explains the dot product and how it relates to the plane equation
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Dot product and its relationship to matrices
- shows how the dot product and axis define matrices
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How to ray-intersect a transformed geometry, without actually transforming it: a geom...
- the article shows that with the inverse-transformation applied to a ray origin and direction
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Command buffers for multi-threaded rendering
- explains a renderer architecture that separates command generation from execution
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Real-Time Hybrid Hair Rendering using Vulkan
- a paper about a new hair rendering technique - the technique is a hybrid between strand
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Rendering Line Lights
- explains how to implement line lights - using a Most Representative Point (MRP) approximation
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New in D3D12 – Motion Estimation
- D3D12 motion estimation support exposes access to the motion estimation hardware found in supporte...
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Using Basis Universal Texture Compression with Metal
- shows how to compile the Basis command line tool
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GPU timing data in New Timing Captures
- the timing capture view now supports GPU workload visualization
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SIGGRAPH 2019 Ray Tracing Roundup
- updated page with all raytracing related sessions, talks and papers from Siggraph 2019
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[Twitter] Low-Level Rendering API discussion
- Twitter thread about modern APIs - strengths, weaknesses, opinions, and suggestions for an alterna...
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Spectral Primary Decomposition for Rendering with sRGB Reflectance
- the paper presents a new technique that allows the generation of spectral data from sRGB source da...
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A Simple Spectral Renderer
- open source and well-commented implementation of a spectral path tracer
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[video] Turn your Frame Rate up to 60 with Vulkan on the Nintendo Switch: – Reboot De...
- Vulkan techniques used to achieve better performance on the Nintendo Switch
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[video] Halcyon: Rapid innovation using modern graphics – Reboot Develop 2019
- video recording of talk about the SEED halyon engine, was discussed in [issue
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geometry processing in the wild
- slides that present common problems with mesh data
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HLSLexplorer 1.01 - UI improvements and D3D12 rendering backend
- HLSLexplorer, a tool which helps in understanding how HLSL code gets translated to hardware assemb...
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Interactive Map Shader: Vertex Displacement
- part 1 of a Unity tutorial that shows how to create 3D geometry offset from a texture and corresp...
