- the lecture presents an overview of computer-graphics technology of the last 50 years as experienced by Ed Catmull
- shows how individual developments combine over time and cause the speed of innovation to accelerate
- contains a large number of anecdotes about the history of computer-graphics
- the tutorial covers how to generate different noise type in shaders
- covers a basic hash function, value noise as well as perlin noise
- shader code is provided in ShaderToy
- the video talk introduces a collection of fundamental shader concepts and tricks aimed at the creation of VFX
- some tricks covered are UV distortion, Masks, LUTs & Gradient Mapping, Debugging advice, and much more
- code examples are provided in Unreal Engine 4
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- the article covers how to extend UE4 with a custom vertex format and shading pass
- the provided example code is meant to replicate the logic required to implement the Slug text rendering library
- the talk presents a set of common misconceptions about shader code patterns
- shows what instructions are generated and how these patterns affect performance
- examples are provided using UE 5.1 custom shader nodes
- talking about multiply vs. divide, packing floats, use of Lut’s vs. Math, as well as the effect of exponential powers
- the tutorial explains the basic steps required to execute a metal compute shader kernel
- shows how to initialize the metal library, upload buffers, compile shaders and execute compute-shaders
- the presentation provides an overview of essential concepts when optimizing an Unreal Engine game
- explains the foundational settings that are required for correct profiling
- covers how rendering performance can be optimized
- touches on culling, draw distances, occlusion queries, shadow proxies
- additionally provides a valuable list of debug commands
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