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Coffee, Code & Shaders: Real-Time Rendering Conversations

Jacobo Ríos

Grab your favorite mug, pull up a chair, and join us in this cozy corner for a nice conversation on everything graphics programming — with freshly brewed coffee for all game developers passionate about pixels and algorithms.

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Episodis

90 episodis

  1. Revectorization Based Soft Shadow Maps 57:14
  2. Hardware-Accelerated Global Illumination by Image-Space Photon Mapping 48:33
  3. Shipping Dynamic Global Ilumination in FROSTBITE 46:25
  4. Megalights - Stocastic Direct Lighting in Unreal Engine 5 1:01:00
  5. Reducing Graphics API Complexity 1:03:58
  6. Raytraced Shadows in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 59:18
  7. Rendering Millions of Gaussians in Real-Time 51:00
  8. Differentiable Voronoi Ray-Tracing Beyond Rasterization Speeds 43:04
  9. A Game Rendering Manifesto 49:37
  10. Improving Direct Lighting Material Occlusion 41:05
  11. Variable Rate Ray Tracing in Call of Duty MW4 39:56
  12. Scaling User-Generated 3D Worlds in ROBLOX 46:38
  13. Real-Time Path-Tracing of Massive Dynamic Foliage 27:01
  14. Ray-Tracing Massive Amounts of Animated Geometry 47:02
  15. The Journy to Ninite - Geometry Virtualization and Rendering 45:28
  16. Real-Time Hair Rendering using Deferred Software Rasterization 38:41
  17. A glimpse at the Glacier Engine from 007 First Light 41:37
  18. Clasical Graphics in the Age of Generative AI 53:57
  19. Lumen and the Evoution of Computer Graphics Illumination 53:46
  20. Texture Space Caching and Reconstruction for Ray Tracing 47:56
  21. Wave Tracng - Generalizing the Path Integral to Wave Optics 31:30
  22. Path Tracing at 200mph in F1 2025 22:09
  23. Reflecting about a decade of SEED 27:35
  24. Upscaling techniques in Warhammer 40,000 and RoadCraft 54:02
  25. GPU Driven Rendering of Factions on Meta Quest 2 and 3 30:02
  26. A look into Teardown's render engine before and after 53:00
  27. Unified Rendering Architecture of Blender's Cycles 1:10:19
  28. Ultrafast Screen-Space Refractions and Caustics via Newton's Method 50:41
  29. Rendering Meshlets in Capcom's RE Engine 50:30
  30. Real-Time Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion using Spatial Hashing 44:30
  31. Custom Rendering Engine for Hades and Hades II 44:19
  32. Architecture and Rendering Techniques in INSIDE 55:57
  33. Rendering Architecture and Optimizations in Rainbow Six Siege 49:16
  34. Replacing Supercell's Rendering Engine 50:01
  35. Bladur's Gate 3 Rendering Architecture Evolution 53:11
  36. Iterative Lightmap Updates for Scene Editing 36:39
  37. Volumetric Rendering using Jackknife Transmittance 34:28
  38. Fast Global Illumination in IdTech8 36:13
  39. Real-Time Soft Shadows in Dynamic Scenes using Spherical Harmonic Exponantiation 26:53
  40. Lightning, Atmosphere and Tonemapping in Ghost of Tsushim 27:12
  41. Evaluating and Sampling Glinty NDFs in Constant Time 36:19
  42. Large-Scale Global Illumination at Activision 27:09
  43. A deep dive into Ghost of Yotei's tech 36:26
  44. Rendering Tiny-Glades with Entirely Too Much Ray Marching 30:45
  45. A Generalizable Light Transport 3D Embedding for Global Illumination 31:10
  46. Volumetric Rendering for Dreams 28:14
  47. Voxel-Based Adaptive Order-Independent Transparency 27:30
  48. Graphics Optimizations in the Unreal Engine for Avowed 28:40
  49. Guild Wars 2 Shadow Technology Improvements 30:50
  50. Billions of Triangles in minutes 18:01