https://mynameismjp.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/blendedoit.zip Back in December, Morgan McGuire and Louis Bavoil published a paper called Weighted Blended Order-Independent Transparency. In case you haven’t read it yet (you really should!), it proposes an OIT scheme that uses a weighted blend of all surfaces that overlap a given pixel. In other words finalColor = w0 * c0 + w1 * […]
You may have noticed that my latest sample now has a proper UI instead of the homegrown sliders and keyboard toggles that I was using in my older samples. What you might not have noticed is that there’s a whole bunch of behind-the-scenes changes to go with that new UI! Before I ramble on, here’s […]
A little over a year ago I was looking to overhaul our shadow rendering at work in order to improve overall quality, as well as simplify the workflow for the lighting artists (tweaking biases all day isn’t fun for anybody). After doing yet another round of research into modern shadow mapping techniques, I decided to […]
Tiled resources seems to be the big-ticket item for the upcoming DX11.2 update. While the online documentation has some information about the new functions added to the API, there’s currently no information about the two tiers of tiled resource functionality being offered. Fortunately there is a sample app available that provides some clues. After poking […]
When it comes to writing shaders, Notepad++ is currently my editor of choice. The most recent release of Notepad++ added version 2.0 of their User Defined Language (UDL) system, which adds quite a few improvements. I’ve been using an HLSL UDL file that I downloaded from somewhere else for a while now, and I decided […]
Previous article in the series: A Quick Overview of MSAA Update 8/26/2017: while working on The Order I improved upon the work described here, which I presented at SIGGRAPH 2015. I also created an updated MSAA + TAA filtering demo that you can find on GitHub, which just about completely supersedes the demo that’s linked […]
Some time ago Charles de Rousiers adapted my Bokeh Depth of Field sample to OpenGL, and we contributed it as a chapter to the recently-released OpenGL Insights. Bokeh is still an ongoing area of R&D for myself, and hopefully I’ll be able to share some more improvements and optimizations once my current project is announced […]
There’s been a bit of a stir on the Internet lately due to AMD’s recent Leo demo, which was recently revealed to be using a modern twist on Light Indexed Deferred Rendering. The idea of light indexed deferred has always been pretty appealing, since it gives you some of the advantages of deferred rendering (namely […]
For profiling GPU performance on the PC, there aren’t too many options. AMD’s GPU PerfStudio and Nvidia’s Parallel Nsight can be pretty handy due to their ability to query hardware performance counters and display the data, but they only work on each vendor’s respective hardware. You also might want to integrate some GPU performance numbers […]
A common part of most HDR rendering pipelines is some form of average luminance calculation. Typically it’s used to implement Reinhard’s method of image calibration, which is to map the geometric mean of luminance (log average) to some “key value”. This, combined with some time-based adaptation, allows for a reasonable approximation of auto-exposure or human […]
