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Alex Tardif

@longbool.bsky.social

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Senior Graphics Programmer @ Digital Extremes on Warframe/Soulframe. Previously worked on ESO, LOTRO, DDO, Infinite Crisis Blog: alextardif.com/eden.html

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We still bias towards clear days, they look like this :D

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Soulframe patch day - P16: Of Hook and Hound! While you're fishing and raising your wolf pups, you'll also see a new dynamic weather system! I think it came out well :D

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Really cool, a post of mine made it into an industry presentation! :D "The Path to Achieving 120 FPS in Ninja Gaiden 4" at CEDEC

Slide about bindless resources in Ninja Gaiden 4

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

new grass tech out today, instancing goes brrrrr, draw distance extended accordingly

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Looks great btw :-)

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

GPU Tracing Participating Media alextardif.com/Participatin... Just some HLSL this time :-) Not a long form post, I've been reading PBR and maybe this will be helpful to share!

Path traced volume of a bunny with an emissive center

Path traced living room with a homogeneous fog volume

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Being visited by a dreamy bunny

A path traced image of a volumetric bunny in a living room

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Now actually taking advantage of that delta tracking! There were in fact more bugs. Any closer to the screen and it makes my GPU sing to me😆Gonna work on that next

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Enjoying going through "Physically Based Rendering", implemented with DXR. The chairs here are participating media using delta tracking, which I hope is finally correct😆 I'll share the header for it soon + my notes, I struggled with terminology for a while.

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