Knowledge base

Rendering

General

• Low-level shader optimizations
• Transparent shadow map
• Exceptions handling
• OpenGL vs. DirectX
• Various effects in Rise of the Tomb Rider
• Various effects in Witcher 3
• Game art tricks
• Deferred Rendering in Dying Light
• Rendering Inside
• Dithering
• Clouds
• Fluids, clouds
• Maximizing Depth Buffer Range and Precision
• Deferred+: Next-Gen Culling and Rendering for Dawn Engine
• Computing Alpha Mipmaps
• Improved Alpha-Tested Magnification for Vector Textures and Special Effects
• Creating Vast Game Worlds

LOD

• Octahedral impostors

Studies

• Doom 2016
• Metal Gear Solid V
• GTA V
• Supreme Commander
• Deus Ex Human Revolution

Water

• Water shader
• Flow maps
• Rendering Water as a Post-process Effect
• Water in Uncharted
• Water Rendering
• Water in L4D2
• Ripple Shader
• Water + Foam

Lighting

• Polygonal-Light Shading
• IBL and Parallax Corrected Cubemaps

PBR

• PBR
• IBL - Parallax correction

Particles

• Scripting particles - BitSquid
• The new particle

Postprocess

• DOF
• Film grain
• Tips for SSAO
• Efficient blur
• Neural network AO

Shadows

• Reducing artifacts with dithering
• SSDM
• Sub-Pixel Shadow Mapping
• Irregular Adaptive Shadow Maps
• Shadow Map Silhoiette revectorization
• Precomputed AO

Vegetation

• Forest lighting study
• Grass - dense coverage

Animation

• Low level animation system
• Simple Two-Joint IK
• IK - FABRIK

Scripting

• Lua

AI

• Behavior trees for AI: How they work

Performance

• STL's mutex is slow

Development

Debugging

• Source indexing for github

Misc

• Why C++ can suck
• How to avoid C/C++ runtime on Windows
• The Game Outcomes project