TinyBVH 1.6.6 is out on main. Changes: * Improved speed of FullSweep (thanks Julian) * Reverted JobSystem to basic threading because of instabilities * Wave_tracer now uses TinyBVH! * Fixed speedtest of GPU BVH Because of the threading issue: Please upgrade to 1.6.6 asap. github.com/jbikker/tiny...

More seriously tho.. The latest iteration of iOi's Glacier engine does look super impressive.. It's just that the IQ & performance of the current build (running on a vanilla PS5 I guess ?) is rough as f.. www.youtube.com/live/pwRpK8e...

Brief introduction to a number of OIT techniques: "Advances in Order Independent Transparency for Real-Time & Virtual Production Workflows" www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXSJ...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 406 - August 31st, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

It's happening again! Do check the line-up, it's awesome!

You can get it from my website. basesandframes.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/s...

Nicely-explained and illustrated article on making a spherical Minecraft-style blocky world. (with playable web demo) www.bowerbyte.com/posts/blocky...

"This many points is surely out of scope!", a blog post about moving #blender scopes to GPU, and point rendering performance in general. aras-p.info/blog/2025/08...

I am proud to announce... PEP: Prediction-Encoded Pixels This format is able to compress images (up to 256 colors) smaller than GIF, PNG, QOI, BMP, in almost all cases. A lot of passion and research (and fixation) has gone into this: >> github.com/ENDESGA/PEP <<

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 405 - August 24th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Working on a small primer on frustum grids. The most common approach is to distribute the depth-slices in an "exponential" manner between a near and far plane, which is probably more appropriately named "geometric" since it relies on a geometric progression. www.desmos.com/geometry/qd1...

it is quite interesting to learn out of no where that Timothy Cain (Tim Cain for some) has a YouTube channel & he is sharing lots and lots of gamedev advices/opinions in there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS PRICELESSSSSSSS 🤑🫡🥹🤩 www.youtube.com/@CainOnGames

Amazing tech!!

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides online: "Ray Tracing The World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows" by Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from Ubisoft is now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

TinyBVH was just updated to 1.6.5 on the main branch. Changes: - Eliminated -Wall warnings (issue #217) - Improved use of JobSystem (#221) - Opacity Micromaps support general N (#218) - Faster full-sweep BVH (#222) - glm can now actually be used (#215) Thanks to all contributors and issue reporters!

Been wanting to implement that fast GGX-based convolution for glossy reflections probes for quite a while and finally made some time for it:) research.activision.com/publications...

It is interesting that both RTGI presentations at Advances in R-T Rendering this year (both great reads!) introduce it as a solution to scalability and baking size/time issues, due to the size/dynamic nature of the world, more than a visual improvement advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

Frustum Grids Primer Part 2: This time instead of having a fixed depth-slice count (which is common for games for a variety of reasons) we'll instead focus on trying to maintain a uniform and non-elongated froxel shapes, which results a variable slice count www.desmos.com/geometry/yl5...

Random @desmos.com doodle on frustum side-plane inside-out testing: www.desmos.com/geometry/8l6... Uses direct references to objects in the viewport (which are visually disambiguated using colors), and dynamically coloring the test point based on whether it's inside or outside the frustum

If you missed my latest devlog, here's a sneak peak #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #devlog

Happy to see that the new game from @mattnava.bsky.social, Sword of the Sea, is finally out today! youtu.be/BE-BD1OKk8k

Anno 1800: Frame Analysis blog.thomaspoulet.fr/posts/anno-1...

One of my coworkers, @tearsofjake.bsky.social, has a talk at SIGGRAPH this year about this really cool steerable perlin noise technique that was used on Moana 2. He's just posted some handy reference implementations for Houdini, Unity, Godot, and Blender; check it out! github.com/jakericedesi...

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Excited to get back to writing on some tech stuff, but first there was something I just needed to write🙂 10 Years at ZeniMax Online Studios alextardif.com/ZOS.html

Great Siggraph 2025 presentation of Gran Turismo's tonemapping pipeline, which also includes a fantastic introduction to light perception and tonemapping, its origins and how it evolved over the years with display technology, recommended read: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

When I started work on my @vulkan.org #Vulkan C++ samples almost 10 years ago I made some non-optimal decisions esp. around sync and command buffer recording. Finally fixed those and did a write-up with a small retrospective at www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/08...

Super Castlevania IV - Tom duBois #Nintendo #Gameart

An Introduction to Neural Shading, Siggraph 2025 course presentation slides dl.acm.org/doi/suppl/10... and materials github.com/shader-slang...

This is the project I've made solo during Slavic Game Jam 2025. Nothing fancy, not even a game, just 5 interactive shaders, to learn how to do custom GLSL shaders in Godot (incl. temporal feedback). Source code included. reg-697500.itch.io/shader-symbi...

I love being in the position I'm in where I I can look at a list like this and be happy that half of these games are made by wonderful talented and delightful friends of mine. Also, Inmost mentioned \o/ Woohoo!

I finally had time to read "Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook 2nd edition" is the perfect evolution of the first edition, bringing you the latest Vulkan updates. It guides you in creating a 3D renderer with all the foundations to build any rendering technique you need.

I've released a simple RTAO implementation, written for the DevGames2025 conference. a poor-man's RTAO, showing how much the real problem is denoising. I wanted to write the simplest RT as an introduction to it. Vulkan+HLSL+Code generation for Descriptors github.com/JorenJoestar...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 393 - May 25th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Finally a reality check from the inside www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM-S...

Great post on making games without an engine: noelberry.ca/posts/making...

Teaming with my friend Marco to bring you some honest and light gamedev content! We want to share, demystify and have a look at the behind the scene of various development topics!

An update, a bit of retrospection, and a call for you, yes, you, to help JCGT a bit: www.realtimerendering.com/blog/jcgt-is...

New blog post. themaister.net/blog/2025/05...

Neural Image Reconstruction for Real-Time Path Tracing community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tec...

Here is a new blog post of mine, where I dive deep into the theory and math behind ReSTIR GI. Big thanks to Markus Kettunen for verifying the theory, reviewing the article, and catching a key detail I had missed. agraphicsguynotes.com/posts/unders...

🎮 Defold is a free, lightweight, cross-platform game engine for 2D (and light 3D) games. Built-in tools, Lua scripting, tiny build sizes, and deploys to everything from web to consoles. No royalties. Just download and build! 👉 defold.com

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 389 - April 27th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

I'm very proud to announce that today NVIDIA has released our first public SDK for Neural Texture Compression (NTC)! github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/R... NTC exploits neural techniques to achieve 12-24x compression of PBR material textures with quality comparable or better than BC formats.

I've finally gotten a chance to put together an in-depth introduction to neural graphics for beginners in Slang using a simplified version of our 2D Gaussian splatting example! shader-slang.org/blog/2025/04...

NEW Tutorial on Reading Math Papers! mini.gmshaders.com/p/readingmath An overview of mathematics for programmers. Demystifying the fancy math symbols so you can use equations from more sources!

In today's new blog post, I try to provide some intuition and clear up some misconceptions about early Z cull behavior on desktop GPUs. Have a read if that interests you! therealmjp.github.io/posts/to-ear...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 387 - April 13th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

I have reworked filtering for the @vulkan.org #Vulkan hardware database. A new settings page allows for more control over global filters applied to the data, hopefully making it easier to limit results to what people are actually looking for: www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/04...