I managed make it out to Seattle this year for Gamefest and figured I’d share my thoughts on some of the different presentations I saw. They are not available yet, but it looks like Microsoft is going to be posting the slides/audio for the different presentations here soon.…
My new side-side project with DirectX 11 is something that has been bothering me for awhile. Chaining compute shaders with variable length output. Chaining compute shaders that output the same amount of work is trivial, in fact, you’d likely just merge the code into one uber compute shader. One…
I didn’t get to see many sessions at GDC this year. One I really wanted to see but didn’t make it to was the talk on “Approximating Translucency for a Fast, Cheap and Convincing Subsurface Scattering Look” given by Colin Barré-Brisebois. However, I read over the slides online…
One of my hobby projects has been to try and implement Morgan McGuire’s Ambient Occlusion Volume (AOV) approach to ambient occlusion on DirectX 11. It’s looking pretty good now, but I thought I might share my pictorial development history. After getting it working I had a few ideas…
After exchanging a few emails with Stephen Hill, he clarified how they were able to cull shadows from the scene using the Hierarchical Z-Buffer (HZB). The purpose of mentioning the paper CC Shadow Volumes, was just to point out the source that gave them the inspiration. Their solution to culling…
While I was at GDC I had the pleasure of attending the Rendering with Conviction talk by Stephen Hill, one of the topics was so cool that I thought it would be fun to try it out. The hierarchical z-buffer solution presented at GDC borrows heavily from this paper, Siggraph…