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Michael Khaimzon, who worked on Far Cry and Crysis, shared that they were unable to make realistic light scattering in Far Cry, so they made a fake lighting texture for both sides of leaves.

#Rendering@GameDEV

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What The F**k Happened To Unreal Engine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eFWHguddcs
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#Rendering@GameDEV
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What The F**k Happened To Unreal Engine?

Is Unreal Engine 5 ruining games? Why do UE5 games look the same? Why am I talking to myself?
WTF Happened to Game Physics?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eFWHguddcs
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💡 Oh boy, he cooks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRdiiWpA0AA
#Lighting@GameDEV
#Rendering@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV
#Tutorials@GameDEV

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Lighting in Godot for Beginners

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Anton Kaplanyan from Intel showcased and discussed their image denoising and rendering technologies:

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Client/Visual-Efficiency-for-Intel-s-GPUs/post/1697911

#Intel@GameDEV
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Absolutely agree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y29-mbrqiw
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Stop Chasing Raytraced Reflections: PhysX is the REAL Next-Gen

#nvidia #raytracing #amd #5090 #gaming #gamereview #pcgaming #consolegaming #blackmyth #borderlands #spiderman #batmanarkhamcity #batmanarkhamknight

Physics over lighting every time.

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How about Global Illumination but fast?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmdyqzelBIY
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Global Illumination for Poor People | TurboGI Devlog

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00:00 - GPU Rant
00:57 - Technique Overview
01:36 …

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Yet another Anvil Engine talk:

https://youtu.be/CcYq18bkvyU
#Ubisoft@GameDEV
#GameEngines@GameDEV
#Rendering@GameDEV

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REAC 2025 Anvil Rendering Architecture.

In this talk, we’ll present Anvil’s evolution into a centralized engine within a monorepo, powering multiple productions in a unified codebase. This structure introduces technical and organizational challenges, including modularization, shader complexity…

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Bent Normals in Godot 4.5:

The first one is the new Bent Normals setup, the right one is without Bent Normals.

1. The new feature allows much better lighting with fairly cheap self-shadowing and no light leaking. It's still worse than RT, but much better than just Ambient Occlusion.

2. It's being used with AO, not as the replacement of it. Inside the shader I don't even have extra maps, I use Normal and AO + scaling to make Bent Normals.

#GodotEngine@GameDEV
#Shaders@GameDEV
#Rendering@GameDEV

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884 views19:50

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OG Doom Tested On High-End 1993 PC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cpITc1Rrlw
#Rendering@GameDEV
#RetroGames@GameDEV

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OG Doom Tested On High-End 1993 PC - How Well Did It Actually Run?

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Wait, do you know that Crytek just released a documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxnHi6SltHk
#Crytek@GameDEV
#Documentaries@GameDEV
#Rendering@GameDEV

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Our Story – Episode 1 – X-Isle: Dinosaur Island to Crysis

Watch this first episode for a behind-the-scenes look at the origins of X-Isle: Dinosaur Island, Far Cry, and the iconic phrase "Can it run Crysis?"

You’ll also be able to see previously unseen footage, explore early concept art, and delve deeper into…

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GameDev Pulse

Wait, do you know that Crytek just released a documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxnHi6SltHk #Crytek@GameDEV #Documentaries@GameDEV #Rendering@GameDEV

Chapter 3!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d3IkrnIHbU

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#Documentaries@GameDEV
#Rendering@GameDEV

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Our Story – Episode 3 – Tech Demos to Robinson: The Journey

The newest episode of our 25th anniversary documentary has dropped! Watch now as we talk about the challenges of taking on new heights in The Climb, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at Robinson: The Journey 🦖

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Evolving backwards

#meme@GameDEV
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#Rendering@GameDEV

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Some updates on RenderMan 27 from Pixar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsVQJDsdLsU
#3DArt@GameDEV
#Rendering@GameDEV

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RenderMan 27 - XPU: Faster, Better, Smarter - Dylan Sisson

At the latest SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, we talked with Dylan Sisson (Marketing Manager, Pixar Animation Studios @PixarsRenderMan @pixar ) right after the annual RenderMan showcase, The Art & Science Fair.

He shared insights on the long-awaited announcement…

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Since Techland were unable to finish RT in time, users recreated it from scraps in a cave: https://www.nexusmods.com/dyinglightthebeast/mods/438 #Modding@GameDEV

And here's the hint on WHY ray tracing has been delayed: the game has a more dynamic sky system, stuck in-between Dying Light 1 (fully dynamic) and Dying Light 2 (several pre-baked spots):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye1Cc8mfNxs
#RTX@GameDEV
#Rendering@GameDEV

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Is The Dynamic Dying Light REALLY Back In The Beast?

Is it really true that Dying Light: The Beast has a dynamic day and night cycle?

Intro 0:00
Dying Light 2 Sun Was NOT Dynamic 0:26
Dying Light: The Beast Test 1:06
Do The Zombies Watch The Sunset? 2:36
Testing The Shadows 3:06
Verdict 3:39

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Rage 2 is very and I mean very odd even if you compare it to other open world games. They took the shooting core from DOOM 2016, pulled a lot of legacy from the original Rage, and then dumped a lot of open world with vehicle focus on top of that. The map…

And since oddly enough, many of you have no idea what RAGE used to be in the first place: it's ID Tech pioneering on texture streaming:

Before it became a thing in all modern engines and APIs, John had to invent the wheel with MegaTextures project.

And the video is from... 2012

The technology failed due to disk drive requirements and stability on driver and hardware levels.

The uncompressed RAGE levels were over 300GB in size. And so the desired clarity was unreachable for the final game. But lessons were learned and soon all modern engines embraced texture streaming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiQCz2NjPR8
#Rendering@GameDEV

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Reset Button: Megatextures

Music can be found here:
https://www.jamendo.com/en/album/100284

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GameDev Pulse

Yes, these things are great!
(in The Witcher 3 as well)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebixv1k9beo
#Rendering@GameDEV

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One Incredible Detail At The (Very) End of Titanfall 2

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