In this session, we’ll look at a 2024 I3D presentation by David Erler from The Forge, where he unveiled the second iteration of their Triangle Visibility Buffer—first introduced in 2013—now with a GPU-centric approach to triangle processing. While the results are encouraging, the method still faces several challenges.

See full presentation:

https://youtu.be/kWLev9CoQdg?si=yhwSLjDS6Pwhndpv

Today we’re covering a EUROGRAPHICS 2025 paper by M. Kácerik and J. Bittner, where they present a faster way to build BVHs for ray tracing using what they call Skewed Oriented Bounding Boxes, or SOBB.Read full paper:

https://dcgi.fel.cvut.cz/projects/sobb/sobb2025.pdf

Today we’re diving into a Graphics Programming Conference 2025 talk by Jakub Kolesik from King Games, where he shared how they built a system using spatial cascaded caches and SDF ray tracing to handle the fully dynamic and destructible world of Enshrouded, where baked lighting just wouldn’t work.

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https://youtu.be/57F1ezwH7Mk?si=u3a8fXXzI5hI6wyy

Today we’re breaking down a REAC 2024 talk by Kevin Tadisco from Blizzard, where he shares how they added ray tracing to Diablo IV and the tough balance of keeping the original art direction in a game not made for it.

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https://youtu.be/kxXz2PaCwsY?si=Gp-sv_m7QXOnVYg-

Today we’re diving into a GDC 2025 talk by Nicolas López from Ubisoft, where he shares how the Anvil Engine has grown to power Assassin’s Creed Shadows, with support for dynamic open worlds, destructible environments, and changing weather and seasons.

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https://youtu.be/yj5pYktC3X8?si=AyRT0VP4fB8xSeAM

Today we’re diving into a talk by Indy Ray from Telltale Games about how they handle rendering in their games—especially in The Wolf Among Us 2, where they customized Unreal Engine 4’s pipeline to keep that unique comic book look.

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https://youtu.be/VoUJB5Cf31A?si=CRwug_UWcy42Hsp0

Today we’re talking about Michal Drobot’s SIGGRAPH 2021 presentation for Infinity Ward, where he showed how they built a hybrid rendering pipeline using Forward+, Visibility+, and a unified geometry buffer to massively increase triangle counts per frame—making way for more detailed game worlds.

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https://youtu.be/NoTUzzmxPo0?si=S-AypZxJVgCOGGh8

Today we’re diving into a talk by Tatu Aalto at REAC 2024, where he shares how Remedy has handled geometry rendering over the years—from Alan Wake 1 and Quantum Break, to finally moving it to the GPU in Alan Wake 2.

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https://youtu.be/l98JgYBQz68?si=lcvhuikL5NAhF0Ug

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.

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