In this thread: three cool rendering papers that DisneyResearch|Studios is publishing at EGSR this week. The authors of these papers are peers that I get the privilege of working closely with frequently, and these are projects I've been excited to watch develop! (1/17)

What To Learn To Be A Real Time graphics Programmer blog.demofox.org/2026/07/01/w... I wrote this up over lunch and it's surprisingly popular so sharing over here too.

The major v7 rewrite of Bevy Solari is complete! Much more unbiased, less light leaks, and greater reflection quality. Community reviews welcome! github.com/bevyengine/b...

From a technical angle, the nifty thing about this short is that it's a mix of hand-drawn 2D animation and 2D-styled CG animation rendered using Disney's Hyperion Renderer, but you can't tell at all which is which. Our artists knocked it out of the park; it's completely seamless.

Bevy 0.19 is out now! It features Next Generation Scenes, Render Bigger Scenes Faster, Contact Shadows, More Feathers Widgets, Text Input, Richer Text, App Settings, Post Processing Effects, Improved Skinned Mesh Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-19

The 2025 paper "EON: A practical energy-preserving rough diffuse BRDF” was updated with an appendix that provides an albedo inversion formula, as well as two other small enhancements. jcgt.org/published/00...

Work on Bevy Solari continues! I've been working on a unified ReSTIR-PT-ish (no hybrid shift, just reconnection) architecture that does DI+GI and diffuse+specular all in one pass, instead of the 3 separate ReSTIR DI / ReSTIR GI / Specular GI passes I used to have.

iveevi.github.io/rcgp/ Check out Venkat's work on a new graphics programming language on statically enforcing correctness of heterogeneous graphics programs (e.g., resources declared on host must match shaders at compile time). The compiler is open sourced and let us know if you have any comment!

It was (initially) mostly about efficiently using the API - TG used OpenGL at the start, so our binding model was a huge anti-pattern in Vulkan (and thus Metal). The new backend uses descriptor sets as a first-class feature, deduplicates state changes, and does less bookkeeping of object lifetimes.

There's a neat short paper from Eurographics this year that evaluates how well microfacet shading models actually predict measured reflectance. The answer is: not nearly as well as one would hope! (1/3) ssteinberg.xyz/2026_surface...

AMD is partnering with Samsung to develop a multivendor DGF extension for Vulkan! Dense Geometry Format (DGF) is AMD's open standard: 🧊 Block-based geometry compression for ray tracing. 🔓 Open-source toolchain & Vulkan extension. Read more ⬇️ gpuopen.com/learn/amd-dg...

Can't believe it's 2026 and we're having to disable GPU occlusion culling on flagship Google phones due to driver bugs. Pretty ridiculous. github.com/bevyengine/b...

DLSS-RR is kind of magic (quarter-res lighting)

Behind the pretty frames of #PRAGMATA. Breaking down many tricks and hidden gems of the renderer behind CAPCOM's RE Engine. i hope you enjoy & find this few months worth of freetime article useful... mamoniem.com/behind-the-p...

Bevy 0.19 is releasing soon, which means it's time for a blog post! jms55.github.io/posts/2026-0...

meshoptimizer 1.1 is out! github.com/zeux/meshopt... Featuring two new major features, meshlet topology compression and opacity micromaps, as well as a few smaller features and improvements! More information in the infographic and release above :) Boosts and repository stars are welcome!

A little different than my usual writing, but I've written a blog post about our usage of Bevy/egui/Rust at Nominal, the company I work at. Give it a read! nominal.io/blog/nominal...

I just released version 0.6 of Avian, an ECS-driven physics engine for @bevy.org. #physics #gamedev v0.6 features move-and-slide, joint motors, and an overhauled broad phase using BVHs, resulting in massively reduced overhead for scenes with a large number of colliders. joonaa.dev/blog/12/avia...

2 more Nanite Tessellation posts are up. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani..., graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/03/vari...

My team just open-sourced our internal implementation of the OpenPBR BSDF from our path tracer: github.com/adobe/openpb...

Real-time Rendering with a Neural Irradiance Volume Delivering fast inference (~1ms/frame), a tiny memory footprint (1-5MB), 10x quality gains over probe-based methods @ equivalent mem budgets, bringing neural rendering within reach of consumer hardware without RT or denoising. arnocoomans.be/eg2026

Update on bsky.app/profile/jms5...: Turns out my code was bugged, and I never actually wrote to the cache... Fixing that reveals that the whole scheme was wrong anyways - conditionally replacing cache cells with RIS outputs does not give an unbiased/correct output.

Anyone have examples of Material APIs they like in an engine, or links to good talks on this topic? Right now Bevy materials let you reuse host code (texture/buffer bindings), but customizing the default material is essentially "go to github and copy paste the entire shader". Not very modular.

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🧵 I've been experimenting with caching the best lights in world space to improve NEE sampling. Inspired by ReGIR, MegaLights, and www.yiningkarlli.com/projects/cac....

I've put together an updated version of the Sponza scene with uncompressed PNG and compressed AVIF textures. I wrote about the process and compared the results against KTX. www.ludicon.com/castano/blog... #webgpu #web3d #sparkjs

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

New post on how to do real-time diffuse global illumination using surfels and #WebGPU: juretriglav.si/surfel-based... #threejs

Ok, so I'm completely stuck trying to debug this. Left is pathtraced reference, right is my realtime renderer. Top row are metals, bottom row are dielectrics, and roughness goes from 0 to 1 left to right.

Bevy 0.18 is out now! It features Atmosphere Occlusion and PBR Shading, Generalized Atmospheric Scattering Media, Solari features, PBR Fixes, Font Variations, Automatic Directional Navigation, Fullscreen Materials, Cargo Feature Collections, Camera Controllers, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-...

Optimizing spatiotemporal variance-guided filtering for modern GPU architectures jcgt.org/published/00...

Light leaks are driving me crazy. World space irradiance cache using spatial hashing. Does anyone have tips to prevent them? Usually happens when ray_t < cell_size, but I haven't found a good way to deal with it. Shrinking the cell size is way too expensive.

just published an experimental crate for doing cuda interop with @bevy.org github.com/tychedelia/b...

Many-lights (100) stress test (not super usable yet, much less with 1000 lights)

New post! "Realtime Raytracing in Bevy 0.18 (Solari)" jms55.github.io/posts/2025-1...

Dear ImGui now embeds a vector/scalable version of the classic font by default, manually subsetted/optimized so it fits in 18 KB (opt-out possible). Embedding ensures easily and readily usable in all contexts. Should default to new one on most setups. Here's a compare of both. #ChristmasMiracle

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

Blog post: Cheap ray-tracing using only acceleration structures. No ray pipelines, no shader binding tables, no textures. anki3d.org/minimalist-r...

Solari is looking pretty good after the latest round of changes! Realtime vs pathtraced reference

Real life has kept me from posting, but I've still been hard at work on Bevy Solari! It now supports specular materials, and has a _way_ improved world cache! Realtime vs pathtraced reference

Very excited to present a few interesting bits about the rendering of #DOOM: The Dark Ages together with @domlaz.bsky.social and @martinfuller.bsky.social . If you happen to attend #GPC2025 next month, feel free to say hello!

Bevy 0.17 is out now! It features Raytracing, Improved Observers / Events, UI Widgets, Rust Hotpatching, Light Textures, DLSS, Tilemap Chunks, Web Assets, Reflect Auto-Registration, UI Gradients, Raymarched Atmosphere, Virtual Geometry BVH Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-17

New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome! zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...

Exciting news for developers working with our AMD DGF geometry compression technology! 🗜️ The DGF SDK has been updated with a new animation-aware encoding pipeline, bug fixes, and improvements. 👉 Learn more and download: gpuopen.com/learn/animat...

New blog post: "Realtime Raytracing in Bevy 0.17 (Solari)" jms55.github.io/posts/2025-0...

New blog post: "Bevy's Fifth Birthday - Progress and Production Readiness" jms55.github.io/posts/2025-0...

Slides from my SIGGRAPH 2025 and CEDEC 2025 talks “Fast as Hell: idTech 8 Global Illumination”, are now publicly available through the Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course. Lecture recordings will be available soon on the course's YouTube channel.

meshoptimizer v0.25 is out! Featuring new simplification function that optimizes positions and attributes for appearance, experimental permissive mode to simplify faceted regions with selective seam preservation, regularization option for improved tessellation quality and deformation, multiple ...

New tutorial blog post! Environment and Light in Godot: Setting Up For Photorealistic 3D Graphics hexaquo.at/pages/enviro... I've been meaning to write this for a while, both as an overview over Godot's Environment, and as an entry point to realistic 3D graphics. #godot #gamedev

Realtime raytraced DI/GI