We will have two talks at GDC on our "Dynamic Global Illumination System" in the INTEL Theater on Wednesday 7th at 2:30pm and Thursday at 12 pm ... come by and say hi!

Although I didn't have time to go into any session on SIGGRAPH I was there doing lots of business related meetings. So I am catching up with talks by going through papers when time allows. There were two papers that caught my attention as especially game development related. John Hable ...

I am going to teach a Paris Master Class this year on June 24th and June 25th. The topics covered will be - Deferred Lighting, Z Pre-Pass Renderer, Deferred Shading - Programmable MSAA - Post-Effect Pipeline - Shadows (Cascaded Shadow Maps, Soft Shadows, Point Light Soft Shadows) - GPU Particle System - Global Illumination (Screen-Space, Reflective ...

Benualdo posted in the Light Pre-Pass Thread a cool trick on how to detect edges to run a per-sample shader for MSAA (just in case centroid sampling doesn't work for you). Here it is: ---------- another stupid trick for edge detection pass on platforms that support sampling the MSAA surface with linear ...

The Killzone 2 team came up with an interesting way to use MSAA on the PS3. You can find it on page 39 of the following slides: http://www.dimension3.sk/mambo/Articles/Deferred-Rendering-In-Killzone/View-category.php What they do is read both samples in the multisampled render target, do the lighting calculations for both of them ...