This talk discusses how subsurface scattering is implemented in Unreal Engine’s forward renderer. Because UE4 implements subsurface scattering as a screen space effect, it wasn’t available on the forward path by default, so a new technique had to be implemented, and one that had to still work with the UE4 material system and editor.
How Creative Assembly have evolved their engine, which originally targeted DirectX® 9, to abstract over the disparate graphics APIs they need to support for Warhammer now, including DirectX®12.
Binomial are the creators of Basis, a very exciting new take on multi-platform texture compression that has wide applicability, and not just to games. This talk by Stephanie Hurlburt is a great primer on Basis and the problems it’s designed and engineered to solve.
Aras Pranckevicius (Unity) presents a new rendering system being developed out in the open for Unity 5. With a tightly controlled and highly-efficient C core unpinning a scriptable surface area in C#, it’s one of biggest graphics focused changes to Unity in its history.
Arne Schober at Epic gives a rundown of a number of recent (2017) interesting improvements to UE4’s renderers, from MSAA support in the forward renderer for VR, to compositing a usable UI on top of a HDR image.
This talk by AMD’s Ste Tovey discusses memory management with Vulkan® at Vulkanised 2018.
This talk by AMD’s Lou Kramer at 4C in 2018 discusses optimising your engine using compute.
This talk by AMD’s Lou Kramer discusses optimising AAA Vulkan® titles on desktop.
A talk by AMD’s Jordan Logan and Saber Interactive’s Nikolai Petrov at Reboot DEVELOPRED in 2019.
This talk by AMD’s Adam Sawicki at Digital Dragons in 2018 discusses how to port your engine to Vulkan® or DirectX®12.
Introducing the new version of Radeon™ ProRender 2.0, the Universal Rendering API.
This video introduces the new Radeon™ Memory Visualizer to help answer questions about memory allocations, resource bindings, page mappings, and more. Includes updates on RGP and RGA.
