David Sena

YouTube video by Unreal Engine The Road to 60 fps in The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo | Unreal Fest Orlando 2025

We just published "The Road to 60 fps in The Witcher 4 UE5 Tech Demo", where you can see how we got 300+ moving characters and 100k+ fully modeled trees and scrubs running at 60fps on a base PS5.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji0H...

We've made the content and project files for our new Bonsai demo freely available, so you can run it yourself.

Download the project, a developer guide, and even a binary executable of the demo here: developer.nvidia.com/game-engines...

Brilliant 👏

Wow !

TIL...where was this all my life 😅

New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome!

zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...

YouTube video by SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering RAY TRACING THE WORLD OF ASSASSIN'S CREED SHADOWS (Advances in Real-Time Rendering SIGGRAPH 2025)

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Ray Tracing The World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows" by Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from Ubisoft is now online: youtu.be/2K-rwy4aMmU?...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 410 - September 28th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

SIGGRAPH 2025 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2025/08/15/s.... I'll be adding more soon. Let me know if I'm missing anything.

Does C compile faster than C++? | Sebastian Schöner I recently found myself wondering whether it is faster to compile C than C++. On some level, the answer to this is an obvious “yes”: You can’t accidentally summon cthulhu SFINAE-thulhu in your C code,...

Toying around with C vs. C++ compile times: blog.s-schoener.com/2025-08-13-c...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 400 - July 20th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

YouTube video by High-Performance Graphics The Future of Analytical Materials in a Neural World

Amazing talk about Neural Materials. Lots of insight - from why layered materials are important to an overview of current neural solutions and their tradeoffs: youtu.be/xUnXPNFWJUY?...

#AMD #Instinct #MI300 Instruction Set Architecture Reference Guide:
www.amd.com/content/dam/...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 398 - July 6th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 394 - June 9th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Real-Time Markov Chain Path Guiding for Global Illumination and Single Scattering - LALBER.ORG We present a lightweight and unbiased path guiding algorithm tailored for real-time applications with highly dynamic content. The algorithm demonstrates effectiveness in guiding both direct and indire...

Thanks for your interest! We have published the paper and code in the meantime. You can find everything on our project page www.lalber.org/markov-chain...

YouTube video by NVIDIA Game Developer GDC 2025 | Scale Up Ray Tracing in Games With RTX Mega Geometry - Full Session Replay

Our #GDC25 talk on RTX Mega Geometry and how it was used in UE5 and Alan Wake 2 is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kblm...

Awesome work!
Thank you for the thread 🙂

Monte Carlo has many uses, but path tracing is one of my favorites. Part four (thenumb.at/Rendering/) explores how Monte Carlo integration is used to simulate light transport.

Monte Carlo methods require randomly sampling complicated domains, which can be difficult in of itself.
Part three (thenumb.at/Sampling/) discusses how to create samplers using rejection, inversion, and changes of coordinates.

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 388 - April 20th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

"Use what engine you like to use. It's all about how you use it and what you make with it."

Added a bit that I've spent years telling folks to focus on more than spending time in forums arguing about bullshit features and useless comparisons

Hopefully an interesting overview of what's going on inside your (admittedly quite x86like) CPU. More in depth than my Computerphile videos anyway :)

#Intel released the 87th edition of the Software Developer’s Manuals with #GraniteRapids, #SierraForest and #LunarLake:

The universal 128/256/512b #AVX10 is canonized!
Fragmentation madness is over

All-in-One:
cdrdv2-public.intel.com/851038/32546...
Changes:
cdrdv2-public.intel.com/851055/25204...

Lambert model (left), the classic “qualitative” Oren–Nayar QON model (center), and our new EON model (right), all at maximal roughness and the same single-scattering albedo color. The top and bottom rows show front and side-lit cases respectively. The EON model compensates for the energy loss of the QON model, producing similar brightness to the Lambert model combined with the characteristic “flattening” and enhanced backscattering of the Oren–Nayar model.

EON: A practical energy-preserving rough diffuse BRDF; by Portsmouth, Kutz, and Hill. www.jcgt.org/published/00...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 381 - March 2nd, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

I wrote about the journey to make GPU texture compression work everywhere, including some history on how I got into this field. Check it out!

www.ludicon.com/castano/blog...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 379 - February 16th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Bindless rendering — validation With a bindless rendering pipeline in place as covered in the previous blogs bindless setup and templated bindless, we are now faced with…

I've updated links in all of the bindless series post, as well as included a small segment on "we've got bindless resource bounds checking at home!" Buffer bounds checking specifcally was super worth it, as this surfaced quite a few unnoticed bugs.
blog.traverseresearch.nl/bindless-ren...