h3r2tic

A quick breakdown of lighting in the restir-meets-surfel branch of my renderer, where I revive some olde surfel experiments, and generously sprinkle ReSTIR on top.

General remarks

Please note that this is all based on work-in-progress experimental software, and represents a single snapshot in development history. Things will certainly change 😛

Due to how I'm capturing this, there's frame-to-frame variability, e.g. different rays being shot, TAA shimmering slightly. Some of the images come from a dedicated visualization pass, and are anti-aliased, and some show internal buffers which are not anti-aliased.

Final images

JarkkoPFC

uint16_t encode16_morton2(uint8_t x_, uint8_t y_)
{
  uint32_t res=x_|(uint32_t(y_)<<16);
  res=(res|(res<<4))&0x0f0f0f0f;
  res=(res|(res<<2))&0x33333333;
  res=(res|(res<<1))&0x55555555;
  return uint16_t(res|(res>>15));
}
//----

hypernewbie

#include <cstdio>
#include <cmath>

struct float2
{
    float x = 0.0f;
    float y = 0.0f;
    float2() {}
    float2( float _x, float _y ) { x = _x; y = _y; }
};

raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

WARNING: Article moved to separate repo to allow users contributions: https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like [Unreal](https:

pixelsnafu

Volumetric Clouds Resources List

1. A. Schneider, "Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes," in GPU Pro 7: Advanced Rendering Techniques, 2016, pp. 97-127. (Follow up presentations here, and here.)

2. S. Hillaire, "Physically Based Sky, Atmosphere and Cloud Rendering in Frostbite" in Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice course, SIGGRAPH 2016. [video] [course notes] [scatter integral shadertoy]

3. [R. Högfeldt, "Convincing Cloud Rendering – An Implementation of Real-Time Dynamic Volumetric Clouds in Frostbite"](https://odr.chalmers.se/hand

mikhailov-work

// Copyright 2019 Google LLC.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

// Polynomial approximation in GLSL for the Turbo colormap
// Original LUT: https://gist.github.com/mikhailov-work/ee72ba4191942acecc03fe6da94fc73f

// Authors:
//   Colormap Design: Anton Mikhailov ([email protected])
//   GLSL Approximation: Ruofei Du ([email protected])

carloscm

#include "../platform/platform.h"

#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>
#include <bgfx/bgfx.h>
#include <bgfx/embedded_shader.h>
#include <bx/allocator.h>
#include <bx/math.h>

#define NK_IMPLEMENTATION

silvesthu

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

• 2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
• 2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
• 2015 - Render Hell 2.0
• 2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
• 2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
• 2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon
• 2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES

zeux

State of Roblox graphics API across all platforms, with percentage deltas since EOY 2018. Updated December 29 2019.

Windows

API	Share
Direct3D 11+	85% (+5%)
Direct3D 10.1	8.5% (-1.5%)
Direct3D 10.0	5.5% (-2.5%)
Direct3D 9	1% (-1%)

sebbbi

In shader programming, you often run into a problem where you want to iterate an array in memory over all pixels in a compute shader
group (tile). Tiled deferred lighting is the most common case. 8x8 tile loops over a light list culled for that tile. 

Simplified HLSL code looks like this:

Buffer<float4> lightDatas;
Texture2D<uint2> lightStartCounts;
RWTexture2D<float4> output;

[numthreads(8, 8, 1)]