On this occasion we will discuss an NVIDIA article where Billy Khan, director of engine technology at ID Software, focuses on how the integration of Path-Tracing in the game DOOM: The Dark Ages achieves more physically accurate lighting, softer shadows, and better reflections than traditional Ray-Tracing; he also highlights the advantages of using the DLSS 4 transformation model for super-resolution and denoising, particularly in the handling of spatial and temporal information.Read full article:

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/how-id-software-used-neural-rendering-and-path-tracing-in-doom-the-dark-ages/

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Today we will talk about this paper that was presented at EUROGRAPHICS 2022, by Basile Fraboni, Antoine Webanck, Nicolas Bonneel, and Jean-Claude Iehl, from INSA Lyon and Univ Lyon. In it, they propose a new method for efficiently rendering volumetric effects like clouds or smoke in cases where sequences of frames (or multiple camera views) are needed, in which they reuse light paths across different frames, and propose a Multiple Weighted Importance Sampling estimator to handle these contributions from the shared paths.Read full paper:

https://bfraboni.github.io/eg2022/data/volmvpt-eg2022-small.pdf

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On this occasion we will talk about this presentation given by Melino Conte and Luc Leblanc from Ubisoft Montreal during SIGGRAPH 2025, in which they discuss the solution they developed for global illumination within their Anvil Engine for Assassin's Creed Shadows, supporting a dynamic and large-scale open world, delving into the decisions they made, as well as the reasoning behind them, and several of the challenges they faced.Watch full presentaion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K-rwy4aMmU

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Today we're going to talk about this presentation by Will Piece, Senior Graphics Programmer at Blizzard Entertainment, that he gave at REAC 2025; where he details the transition of their previous GI solution to a new baked Deep Dynamic Global Illumination (DDGI) approach, which brings scalability across a wide range of hardware and streamlines artists workflows by using a vlume-based system.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PlxPCq-DbQ

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Today we're going to analyze this presentation by Wessel Mast, from Guerrilla Games, during Dev GAMM Game Conference 2024, where he explains the UI framework they developed for games like Horizon Forbidden West, in which they render the whole UI in only one draw-call using Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) and Tile-Based Rendernig to achieve drawing complex UI in under 16 milliseconds.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_MnhTuT_l8

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Today we're going to discuss about this presentation given by Navjot Garg, Kleber Garcia and Darrin Stewart from Electronic Arts at RACT 2025; focusing on the challenges and architectural decisions behind global illumination, ray-tracing and character creation for the game Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHflToAhEs8

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Today we're going to dive into a talk by Lukas Feller, Graphics Programmer of King Games, focusing on the development of volumetric fog effects used in the game Enshrouded; explaining an initial failed attempt using MSAA and the successful second one using TAA, inspired by techniques from games like Read Dead Redemption 2 and the Forstbite engine.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR8HbFnQdlk

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Today we're going to discuss about this presentation by alexander Gesi, Graphics Programmer of 4A Engine, during REAC 2024; where he explains the improvements made to the rendering engine for Metro Exudus. The discussion focuses on modern approaches like bindless resource models and efficient texture and geometry streaming to support demanding features such as rat-tracing, as well as the custom GPU debugging and inspection tools used.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DDo2IEwiYI

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Today we're going to talk about this paper presented during

High-Performance Graphics 20025, by Bastian Kuth, Carsten Faber, Seyedmasih Tabaei y Quirin Meyer de la Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts, as well as Max Oberberger, Pirmin Pfeifer y Domink Baumeister from AMD, where they introduce a nover procedural system to create and render trees exclusively on GPU using Work Graphs and Mesh Nodes, creating complex Tree geometry using minimal data, and reducing memory footprint.

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https://diglib.eg.org/bitstream/handle/10.2312/hpg20251168/hpg20251168.pdf

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Today we're going to talk about this presentation by Sergei Kulikov from Machine Games at SIGGRAPH 2025, where he details the hair rendering system implementation for the game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, keeping the 60 FPS target, using asynchronous compute and LOD management to limit segment count to maximum 2 million.

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https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/content/Strand%20Hair%20in%20IJGC%20-%20Final%20Slides%20(Post-Conference).pdf

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