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Martin Fuller @martinfuller.bsky.social · 13d

A little something I've been meaning to write for a while martinfullerblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/a...

Thank you to the awesome people at Machine Games and id Software!

Anisotropic Scaling in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and DOOM: The Dark Ages

While working on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and later DOOM: The Dark Ages, it became apparent that both titles are particularly sensitive to anisotropic sampling cost on the Xbox Series con…

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idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social · Sep 5

Not doing anything - clears only triggered, for affected probes, whenever cascades snap to new location.

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idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social · Sep 4

The cinematics team did an amazing job ❤️
All Real-Time, in Engine, >= 60hz #idTech8 ( note: spoilers )

DOOM @doom.com · Sep 4

Enjoy the Official Full Cinematics from DOOM: The Dark Ages in 4K here:
beth.games/466tZ0s

Image featuring the Doom Slayer used as the thumbnail for the full cinematics of DOOM: The Dark Ages.

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idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you! Each probe frame uses different set of rays, total rays is distributed over frames. (needs state per probe: frame id|active|clear|etc).
Filter and accumulate (slide 20), e.g lerp(prev,new,1/(frameId+1)).

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Jasper Bekkers @jasper-bekkers.bsky.social · Aug 28

Tickets are up! graphicsprogrammingconference.com/tickets/

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 26

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances talks slides sharing: "Strand-based hair and fur rendering in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from Machine games is now online advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 26

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides for "Stochastic Tile-Based Lighting in HypeHype" by Jarkko Lempiäinen are now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 26

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides for "Real-Time Subsurface Scattering via Hybrid ReSTIR-Path-Tracing and Diffusion” talk by Tanki Zhang from NVIDIA are now online
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 26

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course slides for "MegaLights: Stochastic Direct Lighting in Unreal Engine 5” talk by @knarkowicz.bsky.social and @tiagocostav.bsky.social from Epic Games are now online
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 27

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides online: "Ray Tracing The World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows" by Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from Ubisoft is now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

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idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social · Aug 26

Slides from my SIGGRAPH 2025 and CEDEC 2025 talks “Fast as Hell: idTech 8 Global Illumination”, are now publicly available through the Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course. Lecture recordings will be available soon on the course's YouTube channel.

ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 26

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course slides for "Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination” talk by @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social from @idsoftware.bsky.social
are now online
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 26

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course slides for "Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination” talk by @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social from @idsoftware.bsky.social
are now online
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

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idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social · Aug 21

My talk encore at Siggraph 2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering course, slides will be available for all + videos on youtube.

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Dominik Lazarek @domlaz.bsky.social · Aug 21

Together with @phammer.bsky.social, we'll talk about some of the rendering optimizations using triangle visibility buffers and VRS on Doom: The Dark Ages at GPC 2025. Hope to see some of you there!
graphicsprogrammingconference.com

Graphics Programming Conference

The Graphics Programming Conference is a conference for graphics programmers, from student to industry veteran, taking place in November in Europe.

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Felix Leyendecker @felixliondagger.bsky.social · Aug 19

Catch my talk about DOOM:The Dark Ages at devcom today!

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idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social · Aug 13

Spent the day at Advances in Real-Time Rendering course - was great.
Done with my “Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination” talk.
Slides will be up at the course page very soon.

ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 12

We are back to the Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course and if you’re not here, you’re missing Tiago Sousa’s talk about “Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination”!

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Stephen Hill @selfshadow.com · Aug 10

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow:
blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

SIGGRAPH 2025 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice

blog.selfshadow.com

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 6

It's time to share the program for the 2025 Advances in Real-time Rendering in Games.

Check out all the details here: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

and, of course, come attend the course live on Tuesday August 12 at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver!

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Jun 12

#SIGGRAPH - Save the date - Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games will be Tue, Aug 12 - a full day course in 2 parts (Part I - 9am-12:15pm, Part II - 2pm-5:15pm).

Stay Tuned for the program and the speakers - the line up is very strong this year!

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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 29

OPEN SCIENCE IS THE FUTURE!

Very pleased to see the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM — the parent organization to my “home” conference SIGGRAPH) has announced it is transitioning to full open access by January 2026!!

#ACM #open #access #science #publication #journal #compsci

Open Access Publication & ACM

www.acm.org

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idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social · Jul 22

Lecture completed #CEDEC2025 - slides will be available soon.

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idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social · Jul 22

Made it to CEDEC !

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Philip Hammer @phammer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Stellar material work from Kat.
I had the pleasure of working with her and Nick on the dynamic material damage system in #DOOM where some of those materials were used. That kind art+tech collaboration is amazing.
www.artstation.com/artwork/8BaymQ

DOOM: The Dark Ages - Painted Metal Panel Materials, Kat Tamburello

I had the pleasure of developing DOOM: The Dark Ages along side the talented team at iD Software. During my time there, one of my main responsibilities as a Senior Material Artist was the creation of ...

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idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social · Jul 9

Will be talking about idTech 8 Global Illumination at CEDEC 2025.
Visiting Tokyo/Japan for first time - very excited.

cedec.cesa.or.jp/2025/timetab...

Fast as hell: idTech8 Global Illumination.／大迫力な地獄を再現：idTech8 グローバルイルミネーション | CEDEC2025

国内最大級のゲーム開発者向けカンファレンス CEDEC 2025公式サイト。「Fast as hell: idTech8 Global Illumination.／大迫力な地獄を再現：idTech8 グローバルイルミネーション」のページです。

cedec.cesa.or.jp

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idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social · Jul 8

See you there 👋

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