Advances in realtime rendering - Siggraph 2010

[MoodyB]

Hey all,

Just came across this :

http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2010/index.html

Might be a good read for any of the resident eggheads around here.

90% of it flew over my head - the pictures stopped it being 100%

The Dice pdf on how they do the destruction in their Frostbyte v1.0 engine was a good read.

 

[Baboonanza]

The destruction stuff is really cool. It took me a few minutes thinking to understand that stuff about sphere volume distance fields and see how thy're doing it. Very clever. It's also interesting how the method for getting best performance differed between the XBox and PS3, with the PS3 being considerably more complex.

The PDF on Valve's new flowing water rendering technique is also very good, for the following reasons:
- It really shows why Valve are so good. They only implemented the technique because they found players were getthing lost in the watery L4D2 level. They thought that using flowing water would give players a better sense of direction. After implementation players 17% less wrong turns. Genius
- It's quite clever, but not that difficult to understand. I suspect BioShock must have used something similar.
- There are some Portal 2 (test environment) sceens in there. Exclusive! Portal 2 has water