Transparency is a fundamental open problem in real-time rendering due to the difficulty of compositing in the right order an arbitrary number of transparent layers; the Adaptive Order Independent Transparency sample using Pixel Shader Ordering shows a … Read more
This week I’ll be in Cologne back at GDC Europe which is one of my favourite events in the gaming calendar giving a talk on creating a better gaming experience on ultrabooks. This session will cover a range of topics from getting the graphics settings correct out of the box, the relationship between a bath [...] Read more
Next week I’ll be in San Francisco hoping the weather forecast is right and we get 7 days of sun, and the reason for my stroke of luck is I’m giving a talk on creating a better gaming user experience on laptops. With portable PC sales rising and now surpassing desktop by some margin ( [...] Read more
I’ll be kicking off Intel’s tech session at GDC Europe next week with Efficient Scaling in a tasked based Game Engine. Follow the link for the offical details including the time and place. So the question is why do another threading talk after 2010 and Jerome’s UFO Invasion: DX11 and multicore to the rescue, this [...] Read more
