#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Strand-Based Hair And Fur Rendering In Indiana Jones and The Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from MachineGames is now online: youtu.be/jSE1XXBEK-w

This illustrates the full process of capturing the "Essence" of a mesh to be used in a morph. The distance field is retrieved and then the mesh is projected onto the cube-shaped "screen" in order to pack its surface properties into two cubemaps.

I wrote a neat morph system for Keeper and hopefully I can share a bit more about it in the future. This particular morph was an experiment using symmetry that didn't make it into the game in the end.

Columbo is the ideal for a point and click adventure game. He has a little comment for everything in the environment, he wanders around places freely, and he exhausts the dialogue tree of everyone he speaks to

Gotta re-download Alan Wake 2 every once in a while just to remind myself how absurdly pretty it is.

the guy who was walking to the farlands in minecraft is getting there in an hour or two: www.twitch.tv/kurtjmac

More fun with Rain and Fog :)

In light of EA's upcoming change of ownership... here's your annual reminder that Will Wright's original GDC 2005 demo of Spore was one of the most incredible game demos every presented, before the game was utterly and totally ruined by EA's meddling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofA6...

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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...

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Ray Tracing The World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows" by Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from Ubisoft is now online: youtu.be/2K-rwy4aMmU?...

A little something I've been meaning to write for a while martinfullerblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/a... Thank you to the awesome people at Machine Games and id Software!

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...

IT'S OUR NINTH BIRTHDAY 🎉 So we're launching a brand new channel - dedicated to discovering new games that push our industry forward, previews of exciting new titles and reporting on the issues that face gaming today. welcome to noclip_2 TRAILER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7lf...

Accidentally left my depth buffer out and it went moldy :(

I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code. (And yes it's really been 10 years 👴). therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...

Rec Room was fun, but had to lay off a lot of folks, so I am looking for the next opportunity. If you are looking for a senior graphics coder to solve all your rendering problems on any platform, either remote or in the Seattle area, I'd love to hear from you. Picture is purely for attention.

Effective hobby coding setup :)

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances talks slides sharing: "Strand-based hair and fur rendering in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from Machine games is now online advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

Digital Foundry in 3 years (maybe)

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

For that weird, narrow segment of technically-minded programmers who want to know how we programmed 3D graphics in the 90s and also want to know about 80% of the stuff I programmed before RAD, I sat down for a 5 hour interview on the Wookash Podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tX...

This is a great thread @hillsguy.bsky.social, I'll add a bit more context here for anyone interested. Yes there's no fancy sim - it just uses a water interaction buffer as a target for the particle system rendering, so we could use the power of particle system we already have.

It was time for a complete rethink. We wanted to bring the Nanite approach truly to foliage. No more faking geo with textures. So now every needle is modeled in 3d and stays as real 3D geometry at all distances. No switching to cards or fake billboards.

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

In case you missed it, we're doing a Kickstarter for #BigHops! 🎮 Free Steam demo (100% positive so far) 📽️ 3 new trailers dropping This Week! 💸 Covers full VO, localization, QA, and Switch 1 | 2 ports 🐸 We're at 65% so help us get to our stretch goals! www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...

We're really close to the finish line and just need some help finishing a few important things! - Full VO - Localization - QA - Console ports www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...

🚨HUGE News🚨 🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward! ✨Free demo out NOW 🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025 💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING (links below)

REAC 2025 talk details have been posted on the website! Register today - it's free! enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm If you can share this message, we'd appreciate it. Thanks, and see you soon!

🎉 Skin Deep is RELEASED! 🎉 👉 Steam store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S... 👉 Epic Games Store store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/skin... This game was made with a crew of wonderful folks: blendogames.com/skindeep/cre... We hope you enjoy Skin Deep! ✨

We're expecting another update from Vancouver Police later tonight about the tragedy at Lapu Lapu Day. After that, we probably won't know much more for many hours. Given the global attention already on it, a lot of speculation will inevitably happen. The best thing you can do is not amplify it.

⚠️Replicube is now available on Steam!⚠️ Please tell all your nerdy friends about my little programming game/toy about coding voxel objects with Lua in a fake retro OS with excessive social features 😅 s.team/a/3401490/

Machine Games did an outstanding job here with IDTech and got a huge lift from VRS on Xbox

Moving Houses is OUT NOW for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Xbox! Enjoy a cute First-person 3D physics-based adventure that's definitely 100% cozy and most assuredly free of any kind of horror elements. ow.ly/8hPX50VBaFK For a limited time enjoy a 20% launch discount for select platforms!

Game Informer is back! The entire team is returning and we can't wait to reconnect. Come join us to celebrate the best in games, the people who make games, and the people who play games from all around the world. www.gameinformer.com/letter-from-...

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Having a GPU crash in your DX12 or Vulkan app on AMD card? New Radeon GPU Detective (RGD) 1.4 now shows which draw calls were executing shaders during the crash, assembly (ISA) of those shaders, and which instructions were executing (instruction pointer). gpuopen.com/learn/hardwa...

🚀 Today is AMD RDNA 4 day! To celebrate, we've got new content on GPUOpen: 🔥 Machine-readable ISA for RDNA 3.5/4 🔥 #opensource Interactive Streaming SDK 🔥 Updates to AMF + Capsaicin Find out more: gpuopen.com/learn/new_co...

#GodotEngine 4.4 is finally here! 🚀 Look forward to plenty of quality of life improvements hidden within this release. Faster load speeds, reduced stutter, streamlined processes, and more! godotengine.org/releases/4.4/

REAC 2025 has been announced! Call for submissions is not OPEN! Deadline is March 28th. Our submission process is simple, give it a try! Make a good case for your presentation and see you at REAC! enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

Monster Hunter Wilds is cool and all, but have you tried out the Demon Tides demo this weekend yet? 😎

Anyone have recommendations for good long-form game documentary content that works mostly audio-only? Running out of @noclipvideo.bsky.social content for long drives…

Now officially a “Senior Software Engineer” at MS / Xbox Graphics. Still having fun :D

This is super neat: github.com/Evidlo/remar... Turns a remarkable (e-ink tablet) into a wireless pen tab. Even includes pressure sensitivity if you use this (unmerged) PR: github.com/Evidlo/remar... Interesting that pen-hover still works even though it's not visible on the tablet itself.

🔥 Don't miss the reveal of the next gen AMD Radeon RX 9000 series, along with new technologies, on February 28th at 8am ET/7am CT/5am PT. 🎉 You can watch the unveiling LIVE on the AMD Gaming YouTube channel: bit.ly/3CRgfvX

A long-arse blog post about getting Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering effect running on Playdate, including several side quests. aras-p.info/blog/2025/02... #dithering #playdate