Today we're going to talk about this presentation from the Game Developers Conference 2024, where Kosuke Tanaka y Takashi Komada from Tango Gameworks dive into how they adapted UnrealEngine's renderer to achieve the caracteristic style of their game Hi-Fi RUSH, providing modern 3D graphics features running at 60fps at native resolution.

Full presentation:

https://youtu.be/gdBACyIOCtc?si=RhUjTV-VuHBTfy6b

Today we will talk about this presentation by Tobias Franke et al. at EUROGRAPHICS 2025, in which they present an overview of traditional Order Independent Transparency (OIT) techniques—such as Exact, Approximate, and Hybrid—as well as some OIT approaches using deep learning, analyzing their scope, performance, and accuracy.

Read full paper here:

https://diglib.eg.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/d4ae4723-aaad-4c39-9a55-037f53cebff9/content

This time we will talk about the presentation given by Dan Baker, Graphics Architect at Oxide Games, during the REAC2023 event, in which he discusses the decoupled shading architecture of their Nitrous Engine, achieving improved anti-aliasing accuracy as well as BRDF consistency by ensuring consistent sampling points—though not without first facing challenges such as memory consumption and performance with micro-geometry.

Watch full presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccV9oOoAMhk

Today we will talk about this paper by Antonie Richermoz and Fabrice Neyret, in which they explore the implementation of virtual textures in software, while also highlighting the limitations and performance issues of hardware-based virtual textures on current systems, aiming to encourage IHVs and driver developers to improve support and make their use more practical.

Read full paper:

https://hal.science/hal-05138369v1/document

Today we will talk about this presentation given by Alexander Sannikov, Senior Graphics Programmer at Grinding Gear Games, during ExileCon 2023, where he provides a look at various rendering techniques used in the development of Path of Exile 2, presenting the challenges they faced and the innovative solutions they developed in their own engine.

Watch full presentation here:

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

Today we will discuss this paper by Jonathan Dupuy and Anis Benyoub, in which they present a new triangulation method that allows rendering large-scale video game components, such as planets, terrains, and more, using concurrent binary trees on the GPU. This enables adaptive allocation and release of primitives, optimizing both memory usage and performance.

Read paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.02215

Today we're going to chat about this presentation from EUROGRAPHICS 2024, addressing the disappearing shadows often seen with traditional screen-space ambient occlusion algorithms when occluding information is out of view or multiple depth layers exist; proposing several optimizations including using ray intervals to shorten ray tracing, among others.

Watch full presentation here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3bW_EvCS4k

This time we'll chat about a presentation given by Akimitsu Hogge, programmer at Activision Central Tech, where he gives a detalied explanation of how they handle controller to display latency in Call of Duty using a technique they call "Dynamic Throttling", designed to optimize the balance between processing the different pipelines and the idle/waiting time within the game engine's various ppelines, while mantaining performance targets like 60 fps.

Read the full presentaion here:

https://www.activision.com/cdn/research/Hogge_Akimitsu_Controller_to_display.pdf

Join us for this talk about a paper that presents a technique to facilitate Global Illumination computation in scenes with many lights, using a lighting grid hierarchy. The paper details an efficient way to build this hierarchy, as well as its application in deferred rendering."

Read original paper:

https://www.cemyuksel.com/research/lgh/real-time_rendering_with_lgh_i3d2019.pdf

In today’s talk, we’ll analyze this paper that introduces ReSTIR, a technique that has gained traction in Ray Tracing. It aims to improve sample distribution by adding multiple candidates to achieve a better-distributed sample, emphasizing the critical role of Multiple Importance Sampling and unbiased weight contributions to maintain accuracy.

Read original paper:

https://intro-to-restir.cwyman.org/presentations/2023ReSTIR_Course_Notes.pdf