Today we’ll be talking about an article from NVIDIA that discusses the path tracing optimizations made for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, focusing mainly on two techniques: Opacity MicroMaps (OMM) and the compaction of dynamic Bottom-Level Acceleration Structures (BLAS).

Read Full Article:

https://tinyurl.com/4pshxpnk

Today we’re going to talk about a GDC 2015 presentation by Ka Chen from Ubisoft, where he introduced a technique called 'Adaptive Virtual Texturing' used in Far Cry 4 to get high-res textures on large terrain areas.

Watch Full Presentation:

https://youtu.be/SVPMhGteeuE?si=JTGwa5AiWpXN_go4

This time, we’ll be talking about the presentation given by Sebastian Aaltonen (from HypeHype Games) at REAC 2023, where he discussed the strategy they followed for developing their rendering engine for mobile devices, and the design decisions they made to achieve the highest possible performance.

Links:

REAC 2023 – Modern Mobile Rendering: https://youtu.be/m3bW8d4Brec?si=VeQRDLd99U_eLc31