Nicolas Lopez

Excited to share that GPU Zen 4: Advanced Rendering Techniques is officially out. This volume features work from some of the most visually impactful projects of recent years, including #AssassinsCreed , #DOOM , #StarwarsOutLaws and NVidia's Zorah. And a killer cover :)

@aherys Nice video. There is a lot of confusion about nanite online. I liked the mention of Micropolygons :)

Is nanite good/bad ? Is efficient ? What is nanite ?

@thatjustinng Well deserved Justin!

I'm overwhelmed by the hype.

@thatjustinng Let’s rock this :)

Hi! I can finally say.. I'm the Lead Producer on Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced. Hope you enjoyed the showcase. Gonna go back to finishing this game. (And shitposting sometimes) #nopressure #blackflagresynced

@Mohammed_Aigoin @ClaudioACSy Merci Momo! J’espère que ça va te plaire!

@Nicolas_Lopez_ @ClaudioACSy C’est somptueux. Bravo à toi Nicolas ainsi qu’aux équipes 🔥

Really happy to show what I’ve been working on lately. #AssassinsCreed

New Paper🙂 Nanite has shown that small triangles can be rendered fast in compute, we're exploring how fast for large meshes with up to 18.9 billion triangles, without the need to precompute LOD structures. Paper: github.com/m-schuetz/CuRa… Source: github.com/m-schuetz/CuRa…

Ultra-fast Screen-Space Refractions and Caustics via Newton’s Method jcgt.org/published/0015…

@DS2LightingMod You’ve done an amazing job, I HAVE to play through it again 🙂

Working on fixing grass shading from all view angles. It also has subsurface shading from sun as well. For Diffuse GI alone, a "vertical normal" is used in place of standard normal so the lobe captures data from everything above the grass blades.

@GabrielSassone @AMD Congrats!

Very happy that I joined @amd ! It is a new journey, being on the other side of the mirror is amazing!Humbling and always learning.Forever a beginner!😃#luckyman

Cleverly using older techniques is the trick! Parallax Occlusion Mapping and derivates are old but super effective to give better detail! Incredible to see how many stopped using them, even though they are still great!

@NOTimothyLottes @Duoae Yeah it’s like a totally different architecture so it’s really hard to compare. I recommend watching the talk from Naughty Dog about the port of The Last of Us from PS3 to PS4 (GDC?). It was a struggle just to run it at target perf.

@Duoae Perhaps the context was that the SPUs are technically part of the CPU itself. So you’d do triangle prefiltering on the SPUs (PS3 CPU) but would never try that on the PS4 CPU.

It's hard for me to believe someone literally said that the PS3 CPU is stronger than the PS4 CPU... I guess in one isolated metric that's true? But that's like ignoring everythig else going on.

In this video series, the team and I dive into some of the tech behind Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and what powers the Anvil engine. We cover Atmos, Large-Scale Rendering, Micropolygon, and Ray Tracing. #Anvil #AssassinsCreed #AssassinsCreedShadows youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Introduction to Spherical Harmonics for Graphics Programmers gpfault.net/posts/sph.html

Useful table summarising the various ways to pass resource descriptors to a shader via a root signature (from …tic.graphicsprogrammingconference.com/public/2025/sl…)

I contributed to this PlayStation Blog post about PSSR2 in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Check it out! #AssassinsCreedShadows

A walkthrough of a selection of Tomb Raider III’s rendering techniques, good read! @reinigdavid/old-school-rendering-rant-tomb-raider-913f7837de7e" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@reinigdavid/o…

How many branches can your CPU predict? lemire.me/blog/2026/03/1…

Finally! All of that for just showing a dynamic illustration in app! Bunch of algorithms was implemented for this dynamic illustration. WIP version available (github.com/soufianekhiat/… no LaTeX yet!) Depends on ImPlatform for custom shaders github.com/soufianekhiat/… 1/4

@kechogarcia I have news for him … :)

Tomorrow is the day %100 of code will be written by AI. Looking forward to not have to code again.

2 more Nanite Tessellation posts are up. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nanite…, graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/03/variab…