Author Archives: Krzysztof Narkowicz

Digital Dragons 2017

Posted on May 28, 2017

A few days ago I had a chance to attend and speak at Digital Dragons 2017 about rendering in Shadow Warrior 2. It was a total blast – very pro organized, had a honor to meet some incredible people and listen to … Continue reading →

Posted in Conference, Graphics, Lighting, Post Processing | 2 Comments

Job System and ParallelFor

Posted on April 2, 2017

Some time ago, while profiling our game, I noticed that we have a lot of thread locking and contention resulting from a single mutexed MPMC job queue processing a large amount of tiny jobs. It wasn’t possible to merge work … Continue reading →

Posted in C++, Multithreading | 1 Comment

GDC 2017 Presentations

Posted on March 1, 2017

(last update: April 5, 2017) Programming Track “Cold, Hard Cache: Insomniac’s Cache Simulator” – Andreas Fredriksson (Insomniac Games) “Insomniac’s Web Tools: A Postmortem” – Andreas Fredriksson (Insomniac Games) “FrameGraph: Extensible Rendering Architecture in Frostbite” – Yuriy O’Donnell (Frostbite / Electronic … Continue reading →

Posted in Conference | 6 Comments

HDR Display – First Steps

Posted on August 31, 2016

Recently NVIDIA send us a nice HDR TV and we got a chance to checkout this new HDR display stuff in practice. It was a rather a fast implementation, as our game is shipping in less than 2 months from … Continue reading →

Posted in Graphics | 2 Comments

GDC 2016 Presentations

Posted on March 21, 2016

(last update: May 20, 2016) This year’s GDC was awesome. Some amazing presentations and again I could chat with super-smart and inspiring people. Be sure to check out “Advanced Techniques and Optimization of HDR Color Pipelines”, “Optimizing the Graphics Pipeline with Compute” and … Continue reading →

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Automatic Exposure

Posted on January 9, 2016

In games automatic exposure or eye adaptation is an algorithm for simulating eye reaction to temporal changes in lighting conditions and for selecting optimal exposure for a given scene and lighting conditions. The main challenge here is that optimal settings … Continue reading →

Posted in Graphics, Lighting | 5 Comments

ACES Filmic Tone Mapping Curve

Posted on January 6, 2016

Careful mapping of HDR values to LDR is an important part of a modern game rendering pipeline. One of the goals of our new renderer was to replace Reinhard‘s tone mapping curve with some kind of a filmic tone mapping … Continue reading →

Posted in Graphics, Lighting | 15 Comments