not actually a #devlog A step by step from solid model, to shaded, overlaid, and finally postprocessed, hopefully video compression wont butcher the brush stroke details in the final result #madewithunity #unity3d #indiegames

Finally time to make work on rendering for my cozy town building game. I just got screen space ambient occlusion working, using Mirko's GT-VBAO. I've known this for a long time, but it still amazes me how much of a difference ambient occlusion makes

I'm working on a AO and GI for my game. For that reason I'm extending Mirko's GT-VBAO (based on Olivier Therrien's work). I've done two things so far: - Sampling a distant light instead of computing AO - Added a heuristic for estimating occluder thickness Details and links below

Portsmouth, Kutz, and Hill, EON: A practical energy-preserving rough diffuse BRDF. jcgt.org/published/0014…

New blog post! "Measuring acceleration structures", in which we will compare BVH costs on various GPU architectures and drivers and attempt to understand the details enough on AMD hardware to make sense of the numbers! Retweets appreciated :) Link in reply because algorithm.

New post: Upsampling via Multisampling. The goal is to use an MSAA target in an interesting way for doing a 4x area upsample. filmicworlds.com/blog/upsamplin…

Approximation of the inverse cdf of the disk/circle shaped function ±√(1-x²): shadertoy.com/view/tfV3D3

Uniform Sampling of Surfaces by Casting Rays Selena Ling Selena Ling 凌子涵, Abhishek Madan, Nicholas Sharp, Alec Jacobson Alec Jacobson (Adobe Research, @NVIDIA, University of Toronto) arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05268 Abstract: Randomly sampling points on surfaces is an essential

Decided to check out how water is rendered in Counter-Strike 2 Given how interactive water in CS2 is, I expected to see some cell fluid simulation, but turns out they use just a low-res off-screen buffer with flat 2D decals for various water effects. Reminds me of HL2 water :)

Hola again graphics peeps!😊 I found myself with enough bits and pieces related to text rendering to warrant a write-up. So here it is! osor.io/text Spiced up with direct vector rendering, sub-pixel anti-aliasing, temporal accumulation, etc. I hope you enjoy it!🧡

I have a new article! It took a long time but I think it was worth it, hopefully you'll enjoy it too. elopezr.com/the-art-of-pac… Many thanks to Vassilis Poulopoulos, Oguzhan Karakaya and Angel Ortiz for the help and encouragement

A hexagonal blur computed in two passes. Almost an old-school trick by now: shadertoy.com/view/3fsyRX

2-Pass Disk Blur: shadertoy.com/view/tcjcR1

An alternative approach to distant light sampling for GT-VBAO that is designed to efficiently evaluate distant light functions build from spherical caps of constant colors: shadertoy.com/view/3Xfyz8