Nicolas Silva @nical@mastodon.gamedev.place
Gfx dev @ mozilla / opensource geek / a little too obsessed about vector graphics on the GPU.
Joined Nov 2017
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An interview with Elan Ruskin on engines, tools, and 15 years of AAA experience. https://isetta.io/interviews/ElanRuskin-interview/
(HT to @KostasAAA for the link.)
Ni no kuni 2 frame breakdown: https://blog.thomaspoulet.fr/ninokuni2-frame/
Very interesting interview of Mederic Chasse about the state of real time #vfx in #gamedev https://80.lv/articles/real-time-vfx-overview-from-mederic-chasse/
Fun fact from that presentaion: the encoder can perform some denoising that removes (intentional) film grain to make the frame easier to compress and retain high level information about visual characteristics of the grain so that the decoder can fake it as a post processing effect.
The technical details behind AV1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On9VOnIBSEs
Designing the data model in Our Machinery: https://ourmachinery.com/post/the-story-behind-the-truth-designing-a-data-model/
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More immersive sim stuff, this is a good interview about Deus Ex, Unreal engine, and late 90s game tools:
Following up on the #rust 2d #graphics discussion part 2 - A look at GPU memory management: https://nical.github.io/posts/rust-2d-graphics-02.html
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"Materialize" is a now Opensourced. With this tool, you will be able to convert any image into PBR Material. It's literally Substance/B2M on steroids.
http://www.boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize/
GitHub (Unity project) is here :
https://github.com/BoundingBoxSoftware/Materialize
See it in action :
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I did an interview with lovely folks at "Isetta Engine" (student team at CMU) a while ago, and they managed to edit my random rambling into something that resembles coherent thought! https://isetta.io/interviews/ArasPranckevicius-interview/ -- on graphics, modularity, API design, random other stuff.
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I just updated SMOL-V (library that makes Vulkan shaders more compressible) to accept SPIR-V versions 1.2 and 1.3, e.g. as produced by Microsoft's DXC. https://github.com/aras-p/smol-v
Jendrik Illner's #graphics weekly, issue 59: https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-59/
Entity-component-system and rendering https://ourmachinery.com/post/ecs-and-rendering/ on our machinery's blog.
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Le web, 2018
The 3rd edition of Physically Based Rendering is now freely available online https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/10/15/pbr-online.html
I can't stop playing with http://shader-playground.timjones.io/
Unfortunately the output of the intgrated ANGLE compiler isn't valid enough to feed into one of the hlsl compilers, which would have enabled me to investigate WebRender's shaders without touching Windows.
So I discovered Alain Galvan's blog thanks to the aforementioned graphics weekly and it's full of good stuff: https://alain.xyz/blog
Jendrik Illner's graphics weekly issue 57: https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-57/
The journey into fractals is a particularly enjoyable read: https://medium.com/@bananaft/my-journey-into-fractals-d25ebc6c4dc2
Optimizing calls between javascript and webassembly:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/calls-between-javascript-and-webassembly-are-finally-fast-%f0%9f%8e%89/
Gfx dev @ mozilla / opensource geek / a little too obsessed about vector graphics on the GPU.
Joined Nov 2017
