JS Bourdon

The Hidden Tech That Makes Assassin's Creed Shadows Feel More Alive (And Not Require 2TB) An Assassin's Creed developer sheds some light on how new, often hidden technology, is making games better for developers and gamers alike.

I recently spoke with GameSpot about global illumination and how we approached it in #AssassinsCreedShadows

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Announcing that we’re building the next-generation of Xbox first-party devices and cloud, including our future Xbox consoles, together with AMD.

Next-level performance, cutting-edge graphics, breakthrough gameplay, and unmatched compatibility. Stay tuned for what’s next.

YouTube video by Xbox Xbox + AMD: Powering the Next Generation of Xbox

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That’s official, I can’t keep up with my son any longer 🤣

Go for the first ride of the season! 🚵‍♂️

PIX 2505.30 and 2505.30-preview: support for DXR 1.2, Cooperative Vectors and more - PIX on Windows Today we released two new versions of PIX, which can be downloaded here. These complement the new D3D12 Agility SDKs released today. The new versions of PIX are: PIX 2505.30 – supports the new retail ...

Our latest release is here.
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Reservoir Sampling Choosing fairly when you don't know how many you're choosing from.

A nice, visual introduction to reservoir sampling: samwho.dev/reservoir-sa...

PIX 2505.09 - Revamped UX, Improved Usability, and Many New Features - PIX on Windows Today we released PIX on Windows version 2505.09, which can be downloaded here. Since our preview announcement at GDC, we have been working hard to deliver the changes we promised and more. Today’s re...

Our latest release is out the door 🎉
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#mathematics #math

YouTube video by Microsoft Game Dev DirectX State of the Union: Raytracing and PIX Workflows (Presented by Microsoft)

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Posting for future reference:

Credit to @freya.bsky.social for this gem!
#gamedev #spaces #dev #mondaymotivation

YouTube video by Boston Dynamics Walk, Run, Crawl, RL Fun | Boston Dynamics

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AgilitySDK 1.716.0-preview and 1.615-retail - DirectX Developer Blog We are pleased to announce both a retail release of Shader hash bypass and a preview AgilitySDK release with several new features, available on Agility SDK Downloads today! You can find detailed infor...

The new DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.615.0 and 1.716.0-preview adds some exciting features! I plan to write more about it on my blog soon. D3D12 Memory Allocator library and D3d12info tool will need an update.
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#directx12 #dx12

YouTube video by Branch Education How do Graphics Cards Work? Exploring GPU Architecture

Nice video discussing, at a high level, how (NVidia) GPUs work with great visualisations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Z4...

Finally got to complete the texture pipeline of my mini pet project renderer along with texture mapping. Nothing impressive, but that's a great milestone.

NVIDIA RTX Neural Rendering Introduces Next Era of AI-Powered Graphics Innovation | NVIDIA Technical Blog NVIDIA today unveiled next-generation hardware for gamers, creators, and developers—the GeForce RTX 50 Series desktop and laptop GPUs. Alongside these GPUs, NVIDIA introduced NVIDIA RTX Kit…

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PIX 2412.12 - Texture/Buffer/Visualizer improvements, Work Graph Shader Debugging, and many Timing Capture improvements - PIX on Windows Today we released PIX on Windows version 2412.12, which can be downloaded here. This release includes several new improvements to GPU Captures and Timing Captures, including: GPU Captures: Custom Buff...

Our latest PIX release.
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Testing some small UserScripts for the 1.2 release of OmniStep.. (soon!)

Simple autofocus with raycasting and damping.

OmniStep - Now on BlenderMarket / Gumroad!
#b3d #blender #omnistep