- Explains the concept and motivation behind virtual textures for efficient GPU memory use
- Compares software and hardware implementations, highlighting current hardware limitations
- benchmarks sampling and tile updating performance between different hardware and driver versions
- shows that Intel’s drivers are the only ones with tile update performance that appears viable for real-time applications
- Proposes a real-time method for rendering glints using image-based lighting
- Introduces a fast environment map filtering technique for dynamic materials and lighting
- the developers’ vlog discusses the implementation process of screen space global illumination
- presents various techniques and stages of the implementation process
- shows performance and quality differences between the various parts of the implementation
- The video introduces the REAC 2025 conference
- discusses the underlying idea and philosophy of the conferences
- provides an overview of the content and presents the schedule
- All videos are available on the channel now
- The video provides a visual explanation for shadowing terms such as umbra and penumbra
- shows how bokeh and lights for near and far objects interact to create the appearance that light and shadows are attracted by each other
- The video provides a high-level overview of how to implement a terrain generation vertex shader
- discusses how to further develop this basic technique in various aspects
- Additionally, announces a coding jam based on the project
- covers the Overwatch team’s journey to modernize their global illumination (GI) solution
- discusses tradeoffs in quality, performance, and workflow for GI in a large-scale game
- Details the transition to a new approach that improves artist workflow while maintaining visual quality
- shares challenges and solutions for supporting a wide range of hardware
- explains the meshlet rendering pipeline used in Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds
- addresses challenges of rendering vast, dynamic environments with stable performance
- Details the transition to meshlets across shared engine technology
- compares early and current meshlet implementations and shares optimization results
- Details the geometry rendering pipeline and data management in Swarm Engine for Space Marine 2
- addresses challenges of rendering dense architecture, procedural vegetation, and many interactive entities
- Discusses system organization for future optimizations and features
- Explains shader infrastructure and managing the complexity of Uber shader permutations
- shares lessons learned in balancing scalability, performance, and visual complexity
- presents Anvil’s evolution into a centralized engine powering multiple productions from a monorepo
- discusses technical and organizational challenges: modularization, shader complexity, code divergence
- details the rendering architecture as well as the GPU-driven mesh pipeline and frame graph
- covers performance optimization, profiling tools, and data-driven tuning via a centralized platform manager
- presents architectural challenges and decisions for GI, ray tracing, and character creator in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- covers probe baking system, team size, and asset constraints
- discusses ray tracing implementation choices and support for a wide range of GPUs
- details the technical and practical aspects of the character creator tool
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