More Blackfoot Blade Update
Thursday, February 14,2013
A more technical article on Blackfoot Blade:
Implementing Touch and Sensors
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Blackfoot Blade
Tuesday, February 12,2013
We are on the INTEL Software Adrenaline page:
Confetti Celebrates Ultrabook™ Device Release of Blackfoot Blade*
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PixelPuzzle – DirectCompute
Sunday, December 09,2012
For DirectX 11 compatible platforms, we re-wrote PixelPuzzle with DirectCompute. Depending on the platform, this can give an astonishingly high speed-up. We also added a new "shaped" Bokeh. You have round, quad and other shapes. Screenshots will be posted soon ...
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DirectCompute on DirectX 10.x hardware
Friday, July 20,2012
Wolfgang wrote a blog entry for INTEL on DirectCompute running on DirectX 10.x hardware.
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/microsoft-directcompute-on-the-2nd-generation-intel-core-processor/
Let us know what you think.
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New Global Illumination System
Saturday, November 05,2011
We are going to show off our new Global Illumination System next week on KGC. This system is fully dynamic, works with static and dynamic objects like animated characters, does not require any pre-process data (game objects are destructible, 24 hour cycle possible, streaming not an issue) and works on ...
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Confetti Publications
Sunday, July 03,2011
Wolfgang started to write a series of three articles on AltDevBlogADay on how to design graphics sub-systems. So far there are two articles:
Screen-Space: Rules for Designing Graphics Sub-systems (Part I)
No Look-up Tables: Rules for Designing Graphics Sub-systems (Part II)
The third article "Even Error Distribution (Part III)" will be ...
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Confetti on FMX in Stuttgart II
Friday, May 06,2011
Wolfgang here: FMX was great! Had a great audience with good questions. I talked in more detail on Deferred Lighting, Ellipsoidal Shadow Maps and the Screen-Space Skin Subsurface Scattering model we use.
Please find below the download link to our presentation:
http://www.conffx.com/LightNShadows.zip
It is about 8.5Mb.
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Confetti on FMX in Stuttgart
Friday, April 29,2011
Wolfgang will talk on "RawK Demo Next-Gen Techniques on Intel's Sandy Bridge" on FMX in Stuttgart next week. Come by and say hi.
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altdevblogaday.org/
Wednesday, March 30,2011
I wrote three blog entries for AltDevBlogADay so far. The first one is about the shadow system we implemented in RawK:
http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/02/28/shadows-thoughts-on-ellipsoid-light-shadow-rendering/
The second is about my UCSD class:
http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/03/15/thoughts-on-the-knowledge-of-an-up-to-date-graphics-programmer/
and the third one is about the interview process:
http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/03/29/thoughts-on-the-interview-process-in-the-game-industry/
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GDC Wrap-up
Wednesday, March 23,2011
GDC was a blast this year. We were showing off the Sandy Bridge demo on the Intel booth and -by coincidence- manyof the techniques we picked to showcase were also in the Unreal Engine 3 demo ... the Unreal Engine 3 demo was running on 3 next-gen unreleased GPUs while ...
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RawK interview
Friday, March 18,2011
we gave an interview at GDC about the RawK demo:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/videos/confetti-special-effects-demo-at-gdc-2011/
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Confetti Demo Reel
Tuesday, February 22,2011
Here is a movie of a collection of graphics demos we did in the last 18 months:
Those demos run on low-end graphics hardware.
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Global Illumination in the Game Industry Part I
Sunday, December 12,2010
The history of global illumination in games is rather short. At the beginning there were light mapping tools that were able to store radiosity data in a light map.
The disadvantages of this kind of techniques are
- hard to mimic a 24 hour cycle
- storing those light or radiosity maps on ...
Link Section
Wednesday, October 27,2010
I am now moving all the links over from the dairyofgraphicsprogrammer website. Here is an update: Andy Firth did a great series on how to become a console programmer. Mike Acton's page is as usual highly recommended. Charles Bloom has a great comparison of image/movie compression methods. Ash Matheson has ...
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Massive Point Light Screen-Space Soft Shadows
Tuesday, September 14,2010
Just showed off a demo running on my laptop with the new point light soft shadow algorithm on the Korean Game Developer Conference. You can see screenshots of 16, 32 and 64 soft shadows on the Confetti website at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Confetti-Special-Effects-Inc/159613387880?v=wall
On a desktop machine you can go higher than this but ...
SIGGRAPH 2010: Deferred Lighting / Deferred Shading
Thursday, August 05,2010
There was a presentation given at the Beyond Programmable Shading day on Deferred Shading. I believe the presenter wanted to compare Deferred Lighting with Deferred Shading. I couldn't attend the Beyond Programmable Shading day this year, so I was only looking at the slides. The interesting part was that Deferred Shading ...
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