Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel offset

• the article shows a few ways of doing bilinear upsampling and downsampling
• explains why it’s essential to follow the same convention everywhere and verify that no unintended …

Improved Shader and Texture Level of Detail Using Ray Cones

• the paper introduces a new method for Mip level selection, including anisotropic filtering in a raytracer
• presented technique is not based on screen space derivatives
• extends the technique to apply to texture…

A Failed Adventure in Avoiding Temporal Anti-Aliasing

• the author provides an overview of anti-aliasing solutions
• what problems temporal techniques have, look at alternative solutions
• and experience trying to avoid using temporal techniques in a game production

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RenderDoc ‘Ref All Resources’ + Vulkan + Memory Aliasing = Beware

• the post shows how aliased resources can cause problems when doing render doc captures
• aliased textures that are captured might need barrier transitions, which can corrupt other textures in the…

Rendering a Sphere on a Quad

• the article explains in detail how to render a raytraced sphere that interacts with other parts of the Unity rendering pipeline
• covers how to use a billboard to render there sphere, explaining how to calculate an optimal camera facing quad…

[video] How to texture a procedural object

• the video tutorial explains the fundamentals of texture mapping in ShaderToy
• describes how to apply a texture map to a 3D cube, sphere using tri-planar mapping
• additionally describes how to animate a second texture set onto a…

Why are video games graphics (still) a challenge? Productionizing rendering algorithms

• the article provides an overview of considerations when developing a graphics technique for video games
• presents how game design, workflow, performance, artist controllability, &hel…

Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077

• the article presents a breakdown of a Cyberpunk 2077 frame
• looking at the different passes that create the final image, what techniques are employed
• how the gbuffer is structured, volumetrics, decals, culling ……

Cameras and Lenses

• the article gives an understanding of how different types of camera and lenses work
• provides many interactive examples that explain the various elements, aspects and how they interact

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Black skin in your stylized dimly-lit video game

• The article presents how important reflectivity of Black skin is for believable results
• it shows how to adjust textures and the Unity PBR shaders (specular workflow) to decouple specular color from the glossiness

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