Here's a recording of my Tiny Glade presentation from the Graphics Programming Conference 2024:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusW...

It's an any% speedrun of our GPU-driven rendering, shadows, global illumination, water, and DoF, involving a few weird tricks.

Here's a cool new paper on LOD for aggregates. The high-level approach is to voxelize the world. Voxelization approaches have been tried before (famously Blue Sky's in-house renderer use a ton of voxelization); this paper's core contribution is a new "aggregate BSDF" for appearance preservation.

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 363 - October 27th, 2024 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

I tried going through my following for anyone that seemed to mention graphics / engine dev / etc, and added them all to a starter pack. I might have missed people, or included people I shouldn't, but it's at least a start! Please let me know anyone else that should be included!

go.bsky.app/UFcEcV6

Hi, everyone 👋 I'm Ana, and I work on Tiny Glade, a small relaxing diorama building game 🏰🌿 We've just released it a month ago together with @h3r2tic.bsky.social @lydmartin.bsky.social and @odaodaoda.bsky.social 🙌