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AMD at GDC 2022

GDC 2022 is just around the corner, so why not take some time to get ahead of the game and check out all of our upcoming GDC talks?

Subsurface Scattering in Unreal Forward Renderer (2017) – YouTube link

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.

Improving Texture Compression in Games (2017) – YouTube link

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.

Scriptable Rendering Pipeline (2017) – YouTube link

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.