- the video provides a complete walkthrough of the creation of a large outdoor environment using shadertoy
- presents how to implement a terrain using fractal surfaces, sun lighting, atmospheric scattering, clouds, grass, and trees
- it additionally shows how to apply color adjustments for artistic expression
- the article presents a retrospective of raytracing experiments done using compute shader implementations
- shows an introduction for every experiment and how they present a continuous research space
- providing links to an article covering each experiment
- the article presents an abstraction system to allow shaders to author bindings without having to be aware of binding details in an abstracted method
- shows how to emulate Shader Model 6.6 ResourceDescriptorHeap functionality in Vulkan where it’s not yet available
- the article provides an in-depth look at the core loop optimizations of the Oodle decoding step for AMD jaguar CPUs
- discussing hardware details of the CPU cores and how they define the decoder design
- the 30min video provides a summary and examples of the new features in Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) to build an example scene
- covering things like Niagra particles, fluids, landscape modeling, object material blending, nanite, etc
- the video tutorial shows how to implement ten different effects using UnityShader graphs
- covering outline, dithered transparency, and vertex waves
- the video shader tutorial shows how to use tessellation and displacement to create dynamically detailed meshes
- presents how to control the displacement amount from a height texture
- it additionally shows how to control the amount of tessellation only to add extra detail when needed on the silhouettes
- a high-level overview of what Global Illumination is, the importance for the rendering results
- presents several techniques that exist for the calculation of GI
- these include radiometry, lightmapping, Path tracing, Voxel Cone Tracing as well, as Virtual Lights
- discusses what Ambient Occlusion is, provides how it fits into the rendering equation and what it cannot express
- presents a high-level overview of an existing screen space technique to calculate the effect
- it additionally covers why in most cases, soft shadows are expected and techniques to approximate the effect
- the video tutorial shows how to generate a procedural hexagon shape mesh
- extends the generation to logic to support 3D hexagon shapes and combine them into a grid
- implementation is shown using Unity C# code
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