Kyle Hayward

@BenSimsTech frostbite handles sun separately. what we use today is pretty much what is in the frostbite pbr pdf.

The equation from frostibte looks close to what I need but not really clear how to calculate sinSigma^2 from angular diameter. Have tried Sq(Sin(SunAngularRadius)) but that doesn't work. I specify sun brightness in illuminance, eg 100,000. Maybe I need to convert that into cdm^2?

Anyone know how to calculate area lighting from a distant light source (eg the sun) treating it as a disc with an angular diameter? All the area light resources I can find deal with a distance and radius, but since the numbers are huge for the sun, angular diameter should be fine

@RacifyApp Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I meant the full season schedule. Not just the next weekend.

@GraphicsRunner Hi Kyle ! Thank you so much ! If you want you can resize the widget to a bigger height to reveal the full weekend schedule! Enjoy your season 🏎️😍

@RacifyApp really like the widgets. If the next race widget could scroll to include the full schedule that would be great.

I wrote a blog post on my implementation of the Surfel maintenance pipeline from my Surfel Radiance Cascades project. Most of what I learned came from "SIGGRAPH 2021: Global Illumination Based on Surfels" a great presentation from EA SEED :) m4xc.dev/blog/surfel-ma…

@mxacop Great write up!

It was great to make a tech video that finally has a positive story for PC. But based on the comments under it on YT, you would presume that Dragon Age The Veil Guard might be responsible for some heinous crimes against humanity based on the vitriol there. Many comments...

@Sebasti66855537 There are absolutely companies that already do this.

Random idea that popped into my head: why not found companies that are specialized in game/engine optimization & have them take care of optimizing games from big & small game studios? It'd be somewhat similar to what Nixxes to port Sony PlayStation games to PC. 1/3

@BenSimsTech We use an intersection shader for heightfield marching terrain. So a similar situation. The terrain is made of patches, and each patch is an AABB node in the TLAS. That being said, we're looking at taking this out of TLAS and doing manually before/after the traceRay call.

So, engine doesn't support custom BLASes, fun. Is an intersection shader worth considering or are they too slow to ever be useful? Are there any actual good use cases for an intersection shader? I guess I could just use it to index into my own triangle BVH which I update from GPU

@DiedeApers from @FrostbiteEngine is sharing production-proven real-time global illumination technique GIBS at #rtradvances @siggraph 2024

#rtradvances @siggraph continues with Simon Taylor from @FrostbiteEngine talking about their flexible and extensible shader authoring with Serac

Fantastic collaboration between the Seed, Frostbite and our College Football engineering, art and tech art teams! @GraphicsRunner @staerlor @DiedeApers

@cybereality Kane and Lynch 2 nailed this this look.

Playing around with compression artifact post processing on the engine. Still think Manhunt for PS2 was peak graphics.

Check out this awesome paper from SEED on how to tailor the frequencies of rendering noise to improve image denoising in real time rendering. The paper is being presented next week at @I3DCONF in Philadelphia ea.com/seed/news/spat…

Job Opening - Senior Rendering Engineer!🎉✨ We seek someone passionate about fast, anti-aliased, color-corrected, physically-based, subsurface-scattered shiny pixels to join us on our quest for the future of real-time graphics at @EA. ea.gr8people.com/jobs/183637/se… #gamedev #jobs

@iquilezles +1 for eastl::vector

I have my own, but wondering if there is any de facto standard std::vector replacement for "Sane C++" out there? (ie, error codes instead of throwing, indices instead of iterators, doesn't construct/destruct elements, etc) Note - not looking to debate "why not std::vector?"

Do you love working on rendering backends and graphics abstraction layers? We're hiring for our Render Core team ea.gr8people.com/jobs/179372/se…

@Atrix256 IIRC there's an implementation of this in miniengine: github.dev/microsoft/Dire… by @JamesStanard

@DiedeApers @Atrix256 The full "I work from home" package.

@Atrix256 We got socks too. And sweatpants, shirt, sweater.. only one piece is missing now 🤔

@boksajak @Peter_shirley Texture? I think you mean accurately simulate the fluids inside :-P

Raytrace this! Arguably more difficult than beer ray tracing (foam image needs a texture while beer foam is usually plain)

@MyNameIsMJP Congrats!

Just finished my first day as Principal Rendering Programmer at Sony Santa Monica Studio. I'm super excited to be working with such an awesome and talented team!