David Sena
@biovf.bsky.social
Senior Mobile Platform Engineer @Epic Games
Previously Graphics Tech Director @NMGames, Sr. Graphics Eng at Samsung R&D
Previously Graphics Tech Director @NMGames, Sr. Graphics Eng at Samsung R&D
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We attempted to cram over 100 #uetips into a single presentation at Unreal Fest Stockholm. Did we succeed? Find our right here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w0P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w0P...
101 Unreal Engine Tips & Tricks: The Reckoning | Unreal Fest Stockholm 2025
YouTube video by Unreal Engine
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We attempted to cram over 100 #uetips into a single presentation at Unreal Fest Stockholm. Did we succeed? Find our right here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w0P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w0P...
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I've been wanting to start a blog for a while, and finally decided to bite the bullet.
The first article of hopefully many more to come is about, you guessed it, profiling & optimization.
RTs appreciated!
rovarma.com/articles/opt...
The first article of hopefully many more to come is about, you guessed it, profiling & optimization.
RTs appreciated!
rovarma.com/articles/opt...
Optimizing libdwarf .eh_frame enumeration | Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma
For the Linux version of Superluminal we rely on unwind information stored in the .eh_frame section in a binary to perform stack unwinding. We’ll go over optimizations we made to libdwarf that greatly...
rovarma.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I've been wanting to start a blog for a while, and finally decided to bite the bullet.
The first article of hopefully many more to come is about, you guessed it, profiling & optimization.
RTs appreciated!
rovarma.com/articles/opt...
The first article of hopefully many more to come is about, you guessed it, profiling & optimization.
RTs appreciated!
rovarma.com/articles/opt...
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We just released "Unreal Materials: New Features & Productivity Enhancements", where my coworker @shedoesartstuff.bsky.social shows off a bunch of quality-of-life improvements to the Material Editor in UE in 5.6/5.7, alongside new and upcoming features. #uetips
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmd...
Unreal Materials: New Features & Productivity Enhancements | Unreal Fest Stockholm 2025
YouTube video by Unreal Engine
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We just released "Unreal Materials: New Features & Productivity Enhancements", where my coworker @shedoesartstuff.bsky.social shows off a bunch of quality-of-life improvements to the Material Editor in UE in 5.6/5.7, alongside new and upcoming features. #uetips
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmd...
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We just published "The Road to 60 fps in The Witcher 4 UE5 Tech Demo", where you can see how we got 300+ moving characters and 100k+ fully modeled trees and scrubs running at 60fps on a base PS5.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji0H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji0H...
The Road to 60 fps in The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo | Unreal Fest Orlando 2025
YouTube video by Unreal Engine
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We just published "The Road to 60 fps in The Witcher 4 UE5 Tech Demo", where you can see how we got 300+ moving characters and 100k+ fully modeled trees and scrubs running at 60fps on a base PS5.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji0H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji0H...
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We've made the content and project files for our new Bonsai demo freely available, so you can run it yourself.
Download the project, a developer guide, and even a binary executable of the demo here: developer.nvidia.com/game-engines...
Download the project, a developer guide, and even a binary executable of the demo here: developer.nvidia.com/game-engines...
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We've made the content and project files for our new Bonsai demo freely available, so you can run it yourself.
Download the project, a developer guide, and even a binary executable of the demo here: developer.nvidia.com/game-engines...
Download the project, a developer guide, and even a binary executable of the demo here: developer.nvidia.com/game-engines...
Brilliant 👏
October 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Brilliant 👏
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New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome!
zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...
zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...
September 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome!
zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...
zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...
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#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Ray Tracing The World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows" by Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from Ubisoft is now online: youtu.be/2K-rwy4aMmU?...
RAY TRACING THE WORLD OF ASSASSIN'S CREED SHADOWS (Advances in Real-Time Rendering SIGGRAPH 2025)
YouTube video by SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
youtu.be
September 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Ray Tracing The World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows" by Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from Ubisoft is now online: youtu.be/2K-rwy4aMmU?...
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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 410 - September 28th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
September 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 410 - September 28th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
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SIGGRAPH 2025 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2025/08/15/s.... I'll be adding more soon. Let me know if I'm missing anything.
SIGGRAPH 2025 Links
blog.selfshadow.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
SIGGRAPH 2025 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2025/08/15/s.... I'll be adding more soon. Let me know if I'm missing anything.
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Toying around with C vs. C++ compile times: blog.s-schoener.com/2025-08-13-c...
Does C compile faster than C++? | Sebastian Schöner
I recently found myself wondering whether it is faster to compile C than C++. On some level, the answer to this is an obvious “yes”: You can’t accidentally summon cthulhu SFINAE-thulhu in your C code,...
blog.s-schoener.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Toying around with C vs. C++ compile times: blog.s-schoener.com/2025-08-13-c...
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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 400 - July 20th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
July 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 400 - July 20th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
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Amazing talk about Neural Materials. Lots of insight - from why layered materials are important to an overview of current neural solutions and their tradeoffs: youtu.be/xUnXPNFWJUY?...
The Future of Analytical Materials in a Neural World
YouTube video by High-Performance Graphics
youtu.be
July 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Amazing talk about Neural Materials. Lots of insight - from why layered materials are important to an overview of current neural solutions and their tradeoffs: youtu.be/xUnXPNFWJUY?...
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July 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 398 - July 6th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
July 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 398 - July 6th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 394 - June 9th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
June 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 394 - June 9th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
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Thanks for your interest! We have published the paper and code in the meantime. You can find everything on our project page www.lalber.org/markov-chain...
Real-Time Markov Chain Path Guiding for Global Illumination and Single Scattering - LALBER.ORG
We present a lightweight and unbiased path guiding algorithm tailored for real-time applications with highly dynamic content. The algorithm demonstrates effectiveness in guiding both direct and indire...
www.lalber.org
April 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thanks for your interest! We have published the paper and code in the meantime. You can find everything on our project page www.lalber.org/markov-chain...
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Our #GDC25 talk on RTX Mega Geometry and how it was used in UE5 and Alan Wake 2 is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kblm...
GDC 2025 | Scale Up Ray Tracing in Games With RTX Mega Geometry - Full Session Replay
YouTube video by NVIDIA Game Developer
www.youtube.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Our #GDC25 talk on RTX Mega Geometry and how it was used in UE5 and Alan Wake 2 is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kblm...
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Monte Carlo has many uses, but path tracing is one of my favorites. Part four (thenumb.at/Rendering/) explores how Monte Carlo integration is used to simulate light transport.
April 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Monte Carlo has many uses, but path tracing is one of my favorites. Part four (thenumb.at/Rendering/) explores how Monte Carlo integration is used to simulate light transport.
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Monte Carlo methods require randomly sampling complicated domains, which can be difficult in of itself.
Part three (thenumb.at/Sampling/) discusses how to create samplers using rejection, inversion, and changes of coordinates.
Part three (thenumb.at/Sampling/) discusses how to create samplers using rejection, inversion, and changes of coordinates.
April 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Monte Carlo methods require randomly sampling complicated domains, which can be difficult in of itself.
Part three (thenumb.at/Sampling/) discusses how to create samplers using rejection, inversion, and changes of coordinates.
Part three (thenumb.at/Sampling/) discusses how to create samplers using rejection, inversion, and changes of coordinates.
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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 388 - April 20th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
April 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 388 - April 20th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
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Hopefully an interesting overview of what's going on inside your (admittedly quite x86like) CPU. More in depth than my Computerphile videos anyway :)
Ever wonder what happens between your code and the CPU? @matt.godbolt.org explores how modern processors & compilers boost performance—and what to do when they don’t.
What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgohttps://gotochgo.comMatt Godbolt - Low-level Latency Geek @MattGodbolt RESOURCEShttps:...
youtu.be
April 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Hopefully an interesting overview of what's going on inside your (admittedly quite x86like) CPU. More in depth than my Computerphile videos anyway :)
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#Intel released the 87th edition of the Software Developer’s Manuals with #GraniteRapids, #SierraForest and #LunarLake:
The universal 128/256/512b #AVX10 is canonized!
Fragmentation madness is over
All-in-One:
cdrdv2-public.intel.com/851038/32546...
Changes:
cdrdv2-public.intel.com/851055/25204...
The universal 128/256/512b #AVX10 is canonized!
Fragmentation madness is over
All-in-One:
cdrdv2-public.intel.com/851038/32546...
Changes:
cdrdv2-public.intel.com/851055/25204...
April 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
#Intel released the 87th edition of the Software Developer’s Manuals with #GraniteRapids, #SierraForest and #LunarLake:
The universal 128/256/512b #AVX10 is canonized!
Fragmentation madness is over
All-in-One:
cdrdv2-public.intel.com/851038/32546...
Changes:
cdrdv2-public.intel.com/851055/25204...
The universal 128/256/512b #AVX10 is canonized!
Fragmentation madness is over
All-in-One:
cdrdv2-public.intel.com/851038/32546...
Changes:
cdrdv2-public.intel.com/851055/25204...
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EON: A practical energy-preserving rough diffuse BRDF; by Portsmouth, Kutz, and Hill. www.jcgt.org/published/00...
March 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
EON: A practical energy-preserving rough diffuse BRDF; by Portsmouth, Kutz, and Hill. www.jcgt.org/published/00...