Category Archives: Graphics

Digital Dragons 2017

Posted on May 28, 2017 by

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

HDR Display – First Steps

Posted on August 31, 2016 by

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 →

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Automatic Exposure

Posted on January 9, 2016 by

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 by

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 | 17 Comments

Analytical DFG Term for IBL

Posted on December 27, 2014 by

Image-based lighting is an important part of a physically based rendering. Unfortunately straightforward IBL implementation for more complicated lighting models than Phong requires a huge lookup table and isn’t practical for real time. Current state of the art approach is … Continue reading →

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Lightmapping in Anomaly 2 mobile

Posted on July 20, 2014 by

In 2013 Anomaly 2 mobile version (iOS/Android/Blackberry) by a small indie studio 11 Bit Studios was released. It was an interesting project as we needed to run heavy content from PC version on much weaker mobile platforms. I’d like to … Continue reading →

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Octahedron normal vector encoding

Posted on April 16, 2014 by

Many rendering techniques benefit from encoding normal (unit) vectors. For example in deferred shading G-buffer space is a limited resource. Additionally it’s nice to be able to encode world space normals with uniform precision. Some encoding techniques work only for … Continue reading →

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