Tag Archives: programming

Runtime editor-console connection in The Witcher 2

Posted on May 13, 2014 by bartwronski

During Digital Dragons and tons of inspiring talks and discussions I’ve been asked by one Polish game developer (he and his team are doing quite cool early-access Steam economy/strategy game about space exploration programmes that you can check out here) to … Continue reading →

Posted in Code / Graphics | Tagged debugging, editor, pipeline, programming, the witcher 2: assassins of kings, tools, witcher 2 | Leave a comment

Digital Dragons 2014 slides

Posted on May 9, 2014 by bartwronski

This Friday I gave a talk on Digital Dragons 2014. It was a presentation with tons of new, unpublished content and details about our: Global Illumination solution – full description of baking process, storing data in 2D textures and runtime application Temporal … Continue reading →

Posted in Code / Graphics | Tagged assassin's creed, graphics, graphics programming, PlayStation 4, postprocessing, programming, Xbox One | 2 Comments

C#/.NET graphics framework

Posted on April 10, 2014 by bartwronski

In my previous post about bokeh I promised that I will write a bit more about my simple C# graphics framework I use at home for prototyping various DX11 graphics effects. You can download its early version with demonstration of bokeh … Continue reading →

Posted in Code / Graphics | Tagged .NET, C#, framework, graphics, graphics programming, programming, shaders | 13 Comments

Bokeh depth of field – going insane! part 1

Posted on April 7, 2014 by bartwronski

Recently I was working on console version depth of field suitable for gameplay – so simple, high quality effect, running with a decent performance on all target platforms and not eating big percent of budget. There are tons of publications about … Continue reading →

Posted in Code / Graphics | Tagged bokeh, depth of field, dof, graphics, graphics programming, postprocessing, programming, the witcher 2: assassins of kings, witcher 2 | 25 Comments

GCN – two ways of latency hiding and wave occupancy

Posted on March 27, 2014 by bartwronski

I wanted to do another follow-up post to my GDC presentation, you can grab its slides here. I talked for quite long about shader occupancy concept, which is extremely important and allows to do some memory latency hiding. The question … Continue reading →

Posted in Code / Graphics | Tagged assembler, GCN, GDC, GDC 2014, graphics, graphics programming, PlayStation 4, programming, Sony, Xbox One | 11 Comments

Temporal supersampling and antialiasing

Posted on March 15, 2014 by bartwronski

Aliasing problem Before I address temporal supersampling, just a quick reminder on what aliasing is. Aliasing is a problem that is very well defined in signal theory. According to the general sampling theorem we need to have our signal spectrum … Continue reading →

Posted in Code / Graphics | Tagged algorithms, antialiasing, assassin's creed, graphics, graphics programming, PlayStation 4, postprocessing, programming, stochastic, supersampling, temporal, temporal supersampling, Xbox One | 22 Comments

Compare it!

Posted on February 5, 2014 by bartwronski

Cpt. Obvious I have some mixed feelings about the blog post I’m about to write. On the one hand, it is something obvious and rudimentary in graphics workflows, lots of graphics blogs use such techniques, but on the other hand, … Continue reading →

Posted in Code / Graphics | Tagged algorithms, graphics, graphics programming, programming | 2 Comments

The future of screenspace reflections

Posted on January 25, 2014 by bartwronski

Introduction The technique was first mentioned by Crytek among some of their improvements (like screenspace raytraced shadows) in their DirectX 11 game update for Crysis 2 [1] and then was mentioned in couple of their presentations, articles and talks. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Code / Graphics | Tagged algorithms, assassin's creed, graphics, postprocessing, programming, raymarching, raytracing | 5 Comments