- the talk presents how Activision had to rethink the geometry pipeline when moving from tightly controlled levels to open worlds
- focusing on the shipped F+ and experimental V+ implementation
- shows what mesh types use what technique and explains the reasons
- showing how the GPU based pipeline has been implemented around bitmasks and data expansion
- presents performance numbers, final F+ culling pipeline reduces rendering time significantly
- additionally contains a look at a possible tile-based V+ / F+ hybrid pipeline
- the video discusses biases and assumptions that are baked into the graphics research
- discussing the biases in terms such as skin, hair, flesh tones, human face
- presents a look at history and how the same biases developed, and how it has been repeated
- suggests future developments to address these biases going forward
- the article presents a new D3D12 Nvidia extension that enables a developer to allocate CPU-Visible VRAM memory directly
- this allows developers to write directly into VRAM from the GPU
- explains what tools are available to detect cases where it would be beneficial
- additionally shows how to detect possible performance problems caused by reading from the CPU
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- the paper presents a new distance sampling method
- presents an extension for the null-collision integral formulation that improves efficiency for low-order heterogeneous (such as fog)
- additionally presents an approach using a spatial guiding data structure
- the article presents a polygon extension-based method for the generation of 2D shadows
- explains the necessary math and how to generate the required mesh data
- also discusses problems, performance implications, and optimization techniques
- additionally presents two alternative techniques
- the blog post extends the previously discussed hard shadow method to support penumbra based soft shadows
- presents how to generate the mesh data to include the penumbra and be able to derive the falloff from linear operations
- presents the shader implementation using GLSL
- the blog post presents a new helper class (CD3DX12FeatureSupport) that unifies the D3D12 feature checking into a single class
- part of d3dx12
- aims to unify the patterns and behavior across the different existing methods in stock d3d12
- the article presents an overview of a master thesis about caching shading information in world space
- technique is based on implicit point generation and accumulation into global hash tables
- the presented example shows the technique applied for ambient occlusion
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- course page for the content of Siggraph 2021
- covering Spatial Upscaling through FidelityFX, Concurrent Binary Trees for Large-scale Terrain Rendering
- Nanite Virtualized Geometry, Large-Scale Global Illumination
- Lighting, Atmosphere, and Tonemapping in Ghost of Tsushima and Global Illumination Based on Surfels
- a new course happening for the first time in 2021
- focusing on the architectural aspect of real-time rendering engines
- currently publicly released slides include
- Activision Engine Architecture and Geometry Rendering Pipeline
- Roblox / Unity Rendering Engine Architecture,
- article presents how tone mapping can be implemented into UE 4 using Vulkan sub passes
- shows how much more efficient the implementation is on Quest2 when using sub passes vs. an additional render pass
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