I've pushed some updates to github.com/andrewwillmo... over the last weeks, including an incremental Sobol generator, some ToTriangle/ToRot variations, Gaussian walks and events, and a jitter modifier. My little test-suite GUI app for it is now online too: andrewwillmott.github.io/app/GenDistT...

Couple pieces about this work - about the sphere packing, using voxel "dart throwing" on the GPU: jbaker.graphics/writings/sph... about the reuse of the data structure from the sphere packing, reinterpreting it as a grid-based raytracing acceleration structure: jbaker.graphics/writings/dda...

Continuing on the topic of GPU utilisation and performance, as a practical example, I looked a bit deeper into the impact of vertex shader exports on the cost of a drawcall and wrote another blog post with some observations interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/t...

Anpther major update to our cluster lod ray tracing sample. Zorah scene available as glTF raw.githubusercontent.com/nvpro-sample... BLAS caching github.com/nvpro-sample... BLAS merging github.com/nvpro-sample... Special thanks to Adam Marrs, Pyarelal Knowles for ideas and Chris Perrella for zorah.

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...

Somehow "Part I" of Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games is not livestreamed while the "Part II" is...

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...

As the date for the 20th anniversary of Advances is coming, I realized some content was missing. Posted 2007 and 2008 courses online - check them out! advances.realtimerendering.com

my UEToolbox plugin now has support for Parametric StaticMesh Assets. And it now full source is on FAB, and the code is on Github, too. And also unfortunately I have to move on to other projects :( Wrote a big ol' blog post about it all here: www.gradientspace.com/tutorials/20...

Alright, due to popular demand, let's start talking about the 🎶 Beasts with the fur (with the fur) 🎶 in ✨HERDLING ✨ Here's a 🧵 with the process and tech behind the fur on our fluffy Calicorns:

I worked on HERDLING (coming out soon!) for the past ~3 years and there's a lot of tech-art goodness there, from fur and foliage to clouds and water shaders ✨ I'm planning on sharing some behind the scenes goodness, but is there anything in particular you're interested in learning more about? 👀

Publishing your @Desmos Graph gallery: Now with 2D and 3D graphs ! Even more convenient with the new always up-to-date URLs ;-) . Several options in the the script (e.g., default: not displaying untitled tests). github.com/FabriceNeyre... e.g., mine: evasion.inrialpes.fr/~Fabrice.Ney...

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...

My new blog post is there, and it's a bit different from usual: Fixing stutters in your own code is hard enough, but this time I try to fix performance issues in a closed-source game. No source code or debug symbols, but a lot of guesswork. larstofus.com/2025/07/27/p... #gamedev #Trackmania

Just pushed a technique to avoid too many BLAS builds for continuous cluster-based LoD ray tracing. Thanks to Pyarelal Knowles whose instance merging idea was a precursor to this solution and helped on debugging. github.com/nvpro-sample...

There’s a weird pillar any time 0,0 is player visible space in System Shock for a similar reason - there are copies of particle systems floating there…

2000 frame animation, white light beams shining into a grid of glass spheres, forward spectral pathtracing in 2D

I am in awe at how good Ghost Of Yōtei looks, but I have two very small pronunciation notes for my dear friends at SP: 0) 怨霊 is in no way pronounced アンリオ. Please don't 1) the game isn't called Ghost of 予定. That is a very different game where you find ways to not show up for plans with friends

At SIGGRAPH 2025, Intel, Disney, & Chaos are doing a course on the nitty gritty details of implementing path guiding methods in 3 production renderers: Cycles, Hyperion, and Corona. I helped write the course notes: 80 pages of great stuff! Coming soon. s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

Blind Obsession Ishmael UE5 #realtimevfx sketch I also tested #FluidNinja. YT: youtu.be/KYdI9mH4cjc AS: artstation.com/artwork/XJV5Ka #リンバスカンパニー #リンバス #LimbusCompany #림버스컴퍼니 #vfxfriday #unrealengine #UE5 #gameeffect #3Danimation #3DCG

Our talk “Anvil Rendering Architecture” is up on YouTube, including Q&A! youtu.be/CcYq18bkvyU?...

The photon debugging view is working pretty well now. I can navigate the scene to look at the paths, bounces and final photon positions - along with a preview of their impact on the scene. #metalrt #rendering

Quick “teaser” for a fun #SIGGRAPH2025 project, led by Hossein Baktash, on optimizing a shape to have the desired rolling statistics. Basically we can turn arbitrary objects into fair dice, or make dice which capture the statistics of other objects—like several coin flips.

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 396 - June 22nd, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Our #SIGGRAPH2025 paper "Augmented Vertex Block Descent" presents an extremely fast and stable physics solver with hard constraints for handling joints and collisions. The project page has a 2D demo with source code and more details: graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro...

Histogram Stratification for Spatio-Temporal Reservoir Sampling Corentin Salaün, Martin Bálint, Laurent Belcour, Eric Heitz, Gurprit Singh and Karol Myszkowski (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany & Intel, France) iribis.github.io/publication/...

integrating a cat tunnel into my furniture island might be the best idea I've ever had

Rendering nerds! Check out our latest work "Vector-Valued Monte Carlo Integration Using Ratio Control Variates" that has just gotten the best paper award at SIGGRAPH 2025. This paper presents a method that reduces variance of a wide range of rendering and diff. rendering tasks with negligible cost.

Mesh intersections is hard ! Three years of agonizing pain summarized in my article that just got accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... The implementation and the expansion-based arithmetic kernel are available in geogram: github.com/BrunoLevy/ge...

The SIGGRAPH Physically Based Shading course is back this year: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Excited to finally show off Nanite Foliage www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJtF...

The "Traditional and Neural Order-Independent Transparency" tutorial at Eurographics 2025 was a big success. You can find the material links here: www.tobias-franke.eu/publications... Also, name our band

Today on Digital Foundry, a deep dive into Doom: The Dark Ages and the stunning id Tech 8 engine. New features are showcased, behind-the-scenes engine visualisations are shared. A lot of effort went into this one and we hope you enjoy it: youtu.be/Ed4vNNQwCDU

I wrote a blog post about mipmap level selection. pema.dev/2025/05/09/m...

Our #GDC25 talk on Path Tracing Nanite in UE5 is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/8AnVpcIczyk

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Today I saw this lore-accurate scale recreation of Skyrim that artist Leo Torres made in UE5. Some seriously impressive CG environments work! It's pretty amazing 1. what can run in a realtime engine now and 2. what can be accomplished by solo artists now. www.artstation.com/artwork/oJlR1J

Our #GDC25 talk "Path Tracing Nanite in NVIDIA Zorah" is now online, free to watch for all: www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-dem...

@nicolas-lopez.bsky.social FYI: the Zorah sample content is now posted (see the "Download Zorah Sample" button) developer.nvidia.com/rtx-kit/. It's a chonky download at 108GB. Enjoy 😄

Friends who've worked in the VFX industry, what format is typically used to export a film sequence of transparent frames? A big directory of EXR files? Apple ProRes?

Was about to decide this is last time to come to GDC, then suddenly bumped into two friends I haven’t seen years…

Intersecting heterogeneous volumes with multiscatter + exponential high analytical + mesh lights is hard. Now it's 30-40 percent faster for such scenes (more bounces more performance gain)

i uncharacteristically took a trip down memory lane for this (very geeky, sorry) interview about little big planet 1 - thanks to Ayee and Pear for pestering me until i gave in, and illustrating the edit so thoughtfully! youtu.be/zQTZDnR9AbQ?...

C++ committee : still fighting about serialization Gamedev industry: Uses pdb to do hot reloading (live++), runtime visualisation and perf analysis (D0), runtime memory edit (playerunknownproductions.net/news/run-tim...)

So, I have about a 100GB of god of war ragnarok captures. Let's to that livepost study shall we ? I'm going too start with a cine character shot. To see how the frame is build. W'll check some specific effects (like snow) later.

For the love of our eyeballs, do not align your ember particles to velocity! Don’t give them that comet texture either, ugh. Let’s make ✨physically based flying embers✨ A Unity vfx graph implementation and explanation below. 🧵

I wrote a blog post on my implementation of the Surfel maintenance pipeline from my Surfel Radiance Cascades project. Most of what I learned came from "SIGGRAPH 2021: Global Illumination Based on Surfels" a great presentation from EA SEED :) m4xc.dev/blog/surfel-...

The final part of my "Demystifying the PVS" blog series is now out! In "Portal flow brings it all together" you'll find an illustrated step-by-step example of Quake's recursive portal clipping. Also touches on Doom 3's interesting super-fast PVS builder. 📜 https://30fps.net/pages/pvs-portal-flow/