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Drift @adriftinspace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the revive shrine~ hi digital extremes, i like your game a normal amount #soulframe #soulframefanart #art #driftcreates #envoycreate

a digital painting of a revive shrine from Soulframe; you can also see the Sparrow and the ode'n sky castle in the background

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Maximilian Tarpini @maxtarpini.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Emissive shaders. Type a temperature in K and get a blackbody colour – that's how most shaders do it, and it's wrong for practically every real material. Kirchhoff's law fixes it. www.linkedin.com/pulse/therma...

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Thermal light emission from hot objects

Most emissive shaders in CG make hot metal glow the same way: you type a temperature in Kelvin, a blackbody function turns it into a colour, and that colour is added on top of the material. Gold, iron...

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another gem from you, really great, thanks for making the video it was easy to follow along :-)

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering Short video for now - I might do a longer one later? youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk But there's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info. github.com/tomforsyth10...

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DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering - six minutes version

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Arseny Kapoulkine @zeux.io · 25/09/2026

meshoptimizer 1.3 is out! Featuring a new voxel remesher, support for normal generation, several simplification improvements and various optimizations and fixes. GitHub stars and reposts appreciated! meshoptimizer was started 10 years ago; excited for the years to come! github.com/zeux/meshopt...

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Penny 🏳️‍⚧️ @aluckypenny.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They let me make a puppy simulator!!!!!! I cannot undersell you how excited I have been working on this and how long I have spent prototyping this system.

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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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Don Williamson @donw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In ~2007 when coding the ambient lighting of Splinter Cell, I had the idea of storing dynamic SH probes in Voronoi cells, where a) dynamic objects could walk/lerp the face graph, and b) static meshes "palettised" probes per vertex and lerped to give Realtime GI. It never shipped but look how pretty!

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Had to pick my jaw off the floor, hot damn Kostas :D

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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New Fable gameplay demo. Very proud to be part of this super-talented team! I hope you'll enjoy it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjso...

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Fable - Official Quest Gameplay | gamescom 2026

YouTube video by Fable

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mjp @mjp123.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

WIP spec for Work Lists, the successor to ExecuteIndirect that lets you change PSOs between draws and dispatches github.com/microsoft/Di...

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Slides for SIGGRAPH 2026 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course's talk on Variable Rate Ray Tracing in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 by Michał Olejnik from Activision are now online - enjoy!! advances.realtimerendering.com/s2026/index....

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Unsolicited but fun tip since you mentioned rollback support - keep that last set of PSOs around and add another hotkey that toggles them active, really handy for A/Bs with slim pipeline counts like this :-)

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Krzysztof Narkowicz @knarkowicz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It's great to see ARM being so open about their neural joint denoising and upsampling, explaining their approach, network inputs, temporal stability and how they trained this network: community.arm.com/cfs-file/__k...

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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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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Slides for SIGGRAPH 2026 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course's talk on SMOLDER — REAL-TIME VOLUMETRIC EFFECT RENDERING IN GLACIER AND 007 FIRST LIGHT by @lexdev.net from IO Interactive are now online - enjoy!! advances.realtimerendering.com/s2026/index....

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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU jcgt.org/published/00... New published paper! The premise is that you can offload polynomial evaluation to the texture sampling unit, which can be useful for improving execution times if you are compute bound.

Figure 2 from the paper, showing how bilinear texture interpolation can evaluate the de Casteljau algorithm.

Table 1 from the paper, showing how to calculate Seiler interpolation values, and how to store them in textures.

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Nikki Dawes @nikkidawes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Bayor's Burden I'm so excited for the @soulframe.com Fall Update! #Soulframe #SoulframeFanart

Helmetless Bayor, with a sad/frustrated expression, looks at a broken sword. The sword is hanging upside down in front of him, and glows with a golden light. The meteor Osuraxi is faintly blue in the background. Bayor is framed by raven wings. The painting is done in a loose, tarot card style.

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Alex Mueller @lexdev.net · 15/07/2026

Happy to share that I'll be joining the Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course at Siggraph next week to talk about how we render volumetric effects in our Glacier engine & 007 First Light with Smolder! Take a look at all the cool presentations that are lined up!

Title image for the "Smolder - Real-Time Volumetric Effect Rendering in Glacier and 007 First Light"presentation for the Advances in Real-time Rendering in Games course at Siggraph 2026. Shows various volumetric effects in the recently shipped 007 First Light game.

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

2026 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course line up is here - check it out! advances.realtimerendering.com

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

4K/non-live versions are up now! Soulframe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNQe... Warframe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKsQ... Both dripping with atmosphere :D

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Soulframe | TennoCon 2026 Warsongs Gameplay Demo (4K Version)

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Heard yeah, and thanks for sharing your experience, it's come a long way and there is plenty more to go.

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PlayWarframe @warframe.com · 11/07/2026

Go beyond the Origin System in #Warframe: Tau. Get ready to risk it all in a brand new region of space orbiting a binary star and teeming with new experiences. warframe.com/tau

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Noodles @knifecutnoodles.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Here are some of the fun and interesting things I've done that might be lesser known. 👻

An Elder Scrolls Online render. It pictures Sharp-as-Night holding the player closely, both their hands holding onto the same fishing rod. A splash is in the foreground, attached to their fishing line. They both look cheerful. A tent and supplies are in the background. The environment is misty, and the sky is a gradient of light purple and a warm-gray fog.

An Elder Scrolls Online render. We are looking up at a Khajiit in a dark Arcanist's outfit. Toward the camera, inky black tendrils shoot from the Khajiit's left hand. The other hand grips a Night Blade's dagger. The Khajiit's eyes are glowing green, and their nose and mouth are curled in a fierce sneer. A hood obscures the top of their head. The background is an Arcanist's library bathed in green light.

An Elder Scrolls Online piece. 6 digitally illustrated treasure maps are featured, each depicting a different area of Tamriel.

An Elder Scrolls Online piece. 6 rendered paintings are shown. From top left to bottom right, they are a rocky cliff scene; a river bridge and small town; a still life of household items and fruit; a small waterfall; a dilapidated house in a forest; two large waterfalls feeding into a wide river with ruins lining the cliffs.

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

live recording doesn't really do justice to the visuals/audio but cool nonetheless

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There aren't really words to describe the experience of TennoCon, what a weekend! The electric connection between this studio and the community is what I have been looking for my whole career. Did lots of work for the Soulframe demo :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTk0...

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Soulframe | TennoCon 2026 Warsongs Live Gameplay Demo

YouTube video by Soulframe

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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What To Learn To Be A Real Time graphics Programmer blog.demofox.org/2026/07/01/w... I wrote this up over lunch and it's surprisingly popular so sharing over here too.

A real time render of spheres using physically based rendering lighting formulas

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Erin Catto @erincatto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

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Announcing Box3D

I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features nee...

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Scuff3D Rook @scuff3drook.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

OK so I've seen a couple questions/comments related to whether or not this technique supports *rotation*, which tells me I perhaps didn't do a good job explaining a couple key points. The technique explains how to do an unweighted glyph box filters in a shader...

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Damn that's so cool! Small industry wow

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The second is @scuff3drook.bsky.social (one half of Rook and Possum)'s Rookery, a hand crafted engine being built by one of the industry's most prolific engine programmers. The patreon is a goldmine already, including a new approach to font rendering. Highly recommend to engine folks to check it out

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The first is Luxe @luxeengine.com, a lovingly crafted easy to use engine dogfooded on a variety of real games. I pay to license this engine and would be using to make a game right now had I not lucked into a dream job last year where I'm spending all my time.

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If you've been watching recent engine-related news from the industry and are feeling disenchanted with that trajectory, I'd like to share some non-mainstream projects that might brighten your day:

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 15/06/2026

I've been working on a Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform to interpolate sRGB colors as mixtures of paints/pigments. It can produce results that are more appealing than the traditional sRGB interpolation that Composes uses (see screenshot). Not quite ready for release yet. github.com/romainguy/vi...

A screenshot of an Android application comparing gradients rendered with paint mixtures vs traditional sRGB gradients. There are four rows: the first row shows an orange to red vertical gradient, with the paint mixture version on the left, sRGB on the right. The second and third rows show a horizontal yellow to blue gradient: the top one is a paint mixture, the bottom one is traditional sRGB. The paint mixture version shows that the gradient becomes green in the middle. The last row compares a white to blue vertical gradient, with a paint mixture on left, and tradition sRGB on the right. The paint mixture version show a blue becoming brighter/lighter, whereas the traditional version becomes purple.

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

really nice work, looking forward to more :D

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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 · 07/06/2026

Thanks for the kind words. If ever there was a lesson to continue to pass on, it's this one!

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mjp @mjp123.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Super super excited to finally show what I’ve been working on at SMS blog.playstation.com/2026/06/02/f...

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First look at God of War Laufey

Exclusive details about the next chapter in the God of War series.

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

No I appreciate your thorough response, thank you. >the code was released publicly for the purpose of being used and built upon by others This is all I take issue with really since it isn't true. The rest of the apparatus you've built looks very cool :-)

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

If I want to understand the roots of a piece of work, I can recursively research its references. Contrast this with Claude when trying to source something and it's like "idk man just copy/paste the code" and the chain is broken. This will be a significant long term problem

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

To push back on the building off others, these inspirations are typically attributed, at least in the fields I work in. This is not only for the purposes of legality and respect, but critically for maintaining the chain back to the original sources, which is so important for research.

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I know you take this stuff seriously too Alex, thanks for sharing!

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