Rendering AAA-Quality Characters of Project A1

Rendering AAA-Quality
Characters of Project ‘A1’
Hyunwoo Ki
Lead Graphics Programmer
A1 / NEXON
* Translated material in English.

• Unannounced project of Nexon / New IP
 In Development
 By game development experts
 Target Platform: High-end PC
- 60 FPS at Ultra Quality / Low-spec PCs will be okay at Medium Quality
• We first announce our project at this conference
A1

• Programming Session: Character Rendering
 Including resources and implementation in development
 World shown in this talk is a temporary
 All content can be changed in development
A1@NDC 2016
• 04/27 15:20 Art Session by Art Director
• 04/27 17:05 Programming Session by Senior Gameplay Programmer

• Competitive, stunning visuals
 Unprecedented quality in Korea
 We show current results and technology at this conference
• UE4 + @@@
 Use powerful rendering features of UE4
 Plus, new rendering/animation/VFX features made by our team
Visual of A1

• Skin, Hair, and Metal Rendering
• Shadow Rendering
• Low Level Shader Optimization
• Run-time Rigged Physics Simulation
Agenda

• Multiple scattering
 Dipole diffusion approximation
• Included in UE4
 Integration of Jimenez’s implementation
 We use it without any changes
SSSSS Screen Space SubSurface Scattering
Activision R&D. Property of Activision Publishing. Not Actual Gameplay

• Softer lighting
• Softer shadows
• Translucent look
SSSSS

• Specular along
geometry silhouettes
• Plastic-like look
Base Normal Only

• Specular along
skin surface details
• More realistic
With Detail Normal

• No transmission
 Ignoring irradiance from outside of visible surfaces
 Lack of a screen-space approach
 There’s a solution but it isn’t included in UE4
• Low frequency lighting
 Can’t handle strong scattering at a short distance
Limit: UE4 SSSSS
Burley, “Extending the Disney BRDF to a BSDF with Integrated Subsurface Scattering”, SIGGRAPH 2015

• Transmission (Backlit)
• Back scattering
• Higher frequency lighting
Single Scattering
Single Scattering Multiple Scattering (dipole)

+ =Single + Multiple Scattering
* Single scattering is exaggerated to show different looks on the presentation screen.

ground truth Ki09
• Introduced in ShaderX7
 Hyunwoo Ki, “Real-Time Subsurface Scattering using Shadow Maps”
 Store translucent irradiance into multiple shadow maps (RSM/TSM style)
 Approximate scattering distance by ray marching with shadow map projection
 Estimate radiance using the stored irradiance and the scattering distance
• Integrated this technique into UE4 with small changes
 Deferred Single Scattering
Single Scattering using Shadow Maps

• Shoot rays from the camera
 Refract rays on the surfaces
• Draw stepping distance samples
 Exploit Quasi Monte Carlo sampling
• Project xp onto shadow maps
 To approximate incident scattering distance, Si
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1) Deferred Shadows Pass:
 Ki’s ray marching (QMC + shadow projection)
 Assume that irradiance and normal are equal for all sampling steps -> Only use the shadow depth map (no additional buffers!)
 Constant scattering parameters: limited by G-buffers and performance reason
 Output: scalar scattering transfer instead of shadow amount (single channel)
2) Deferred Lighting Pass:
 SS = intensity * (scattering transfer * SSS color) * bidirectional Fresnel transmittance * HG phase function
 Output: direct lighting + single scattering
• Physically incorrect but plausible looks
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float ComputeSingleScatteringUsingShadowMap(FGBufferData GBuffer, FShadowMapSamplerSettings Settings, float3 V, float3 L, float3 WorldPosition)
{
const int NumSamples = SHADOW_QUALITY * 3;
const float Eta = 1.3;
const float EtaInverse = 1.0 / Eta;
const float ExtinctionCoefficient = 2.55;
const float MeanFreePath = 1.0 / ExtinctionCoefficient;
const float3 OutgoingDirection = -refract(V, -GBuffer.WorldNormal, EtaInverse.x);
const float InverseNumSamples = 1.0f / (float) NumSamples;
const float Sample = InverseNumSamples * 0.5;
float SingleScattering = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < NumSamples; ++i)
{
float RefractedOutgoingDistance = -log(Sample) * MeanFreePath;
float3 ScatteringPoint = (OutgoingDirection * RefractedOutgoingDistance) + WorldPosition;
float4 ScatteringPointInShadowSpace = mul(float4(ScatteringPoint, 1.0f), WorldToShadowMatrix);
ScatteringPointInShadowSpace.xy /= ScatteringPointInShadowSpace.w;
float ShadowmapDepthAtScatteringPoint = Texture2DSampleLevel(Settings.ShadowDepthTexture, Settings.ShadowDepthTextureSampler, ScatteringPointInShadowSpace.xy, 0).r;
float IncidentDistance = max(0, abs((ShadowmapDepthAtScatteringPoint + Settings.ProjectionDepthBiasParameters.x) - ScatteringPointInShadowSpace.z)) * ProjectionDepthBiasParameters.y;
float TravelPathLength = IncidentDistance + RefractedOutgoingDistance * DISTANCE_SCALE;
float LightContribution = exp(-ExtinctionCoefficient * TravelPathLength);
float Weight = exp(-ExtinctionCoefficient * RefractedOutgoingDistance);
SingleScattering += LightContribution / Weight;
Sample += InverseNumSamples;
}
return SingleScattering / (float) NumSamples * SINGLESCATTERING_INTENSITY;
}
Appendix) Ray marching code

• Transmission on thin body parts
 Backlit effects
• Brighter skin surfaces
 With texture masking / artistic choice
• Added approx. 1 ms per light
 At a closeup view (worst case)
Rendering Results

* Single scattering is exaggerated to show different looks on the presentation screen.

• Using dithered, temporal sampling
 Like volumetric lighting: Killzone: Shadow Fall, Loads of Fallen, INSIDE, etc.
 Temporal reprojection
• Replace shadow rendering for skin
 Currently we use conventional PCF (UE4 default)
 But we expect that volumetric attenuation by SS can represent shadowing
Future Work: Single Scattering

• Layered card mesh with alpha texture
• + Hair strands mesh
• Optional textures:
 Color, normal, roughness, AO, specular noise, etc.
• Similar to Destiny and The Order: 1886
Modeling and Texturing

• Transparency
 Alpha blending: per-pixel drawing order
 Lighting: deferred lighting? (incompatible)
 Shadowing: deferred shadowing? (incompatible)
• Physically based shading model
 Not fit to GGX
Problem

• Need per-pixel, sorted alpha blending
• Choice: K-Buffer style
 Per-Pixel Linked List (PPLL)
 DX11 Unordered Access View (UAV)
 Based on an AMD TressFX 2.0 sample
 We integrated this into UE4
Order Independent Transparency (OIT)

• Head UAV: RWTexture2D<uint>
 Head indices for each linked list of pixels on the screen
• PPLL UAV: RWStructuredBuffer<FOitLinkedListDataElement>
 Container to store all fragments being shaded
 An element is added when each fragment is drawn
Review: PPLL OIT
uint PixelCount = OitLinkedListPPLLDataUAV.IncrementCounter();
int2 UAVTargetIndex = int2(SVPosition.xy);
uint OldStartOffset;
InterlockedExchange(OitLinkedListHeadAddrUAV[UAVTargetIndex], PixelCount, OldStartOffset);
OitLinkedListPPLLDataUAV[PixelCount] = NewElement;

• K-Buffer
 Do manual alpha blending for the front-most K fragments: sorted
 Do manual alpha blending for the remainder fragments: unsorted
• See references in detail
Review: PPLL OIT
float4 BlendTransparency(float4 FragmentColor, float4 FinalColor)
{
float4 OutColor;
OutColor.xyz = mad(-FinalColor.xyz, FragmentColor.w, FinalColor.xyz) + FragmentColor.xyz * FragmentColor.w;
OutColor.w = mad(-FinalColor.w, FragmentColor.w, FinalColor.w);
return OutColor;
}

• Store radiance computed by forward lighting into PPLL / Force early-Z
• Sort and blend in the following pass
• PPLL layout: DX11 StructuredBuffer
 Pack HDR radiance from half4 to uint: for memory, bandwidth, and cache alignment (128 bit)
UE4 Integration
struct FOitLinkedListDataElement
{
half4 Radiance;
uint NormalAndOpacity;
uint Depth;
uint Next;
};
struct FOitLinkedListDataElement
{
uint RadianceRGY32;
uint NormalAndOpacity;
uint Depth;
uint Next;
};
float3 UnpackRGY32(uint PackedColor)
{
const float ONE_OVER_255 = 1.0f / 255.0f;
float3 RGB;
RGB.r = (PackedColor & 0xff000000) >> 24;
RGB.g = (PackedColor & 0x00ff0000) >> 16;
RGB.b = 255.0f - (RGB.r + RGB.g);
float Luminance = f16tof32(PackedColor);
return RGB * Luminance * ONE_OVER_255;
}
uint PackRGY32(float3 Color)
{
float Luminance = (Color.r + Color.g + Color.b);
Color.rg /= Luminance;
uint PackedValue = uint(Color.r * 255.0f + 0.5f) << 24
| uint(Color.g * 255.0f + 0.5f) << 16;
PackedValue |= f32tof16(Luminance);
return PackedValue;
}

• Serious pixel over draws due to layered geometry
• Optimization: single pass Opacity Thresholding using UAV
 Observation: Alpha blending of hair is not for transparency but for rendering thin strands with clean
silhouettes, and hair textures has almost opaque texels (especially inner layers) excepts hair tips
 Goal: Reduce drawing invisible pixels occluded by almost opaque pixels from the same geometry
 Unordered Opacity Thresholding
Reducing Pixel Over Draws

• Set the opacity threshold for each hair material: ex) 0.95
• Do manual Z test with an additional UAV Z buffer RWTexture2D<uint> in PS
 Try to write Z if opacity of a fragment is higher than the opacity threshold
 Always do Z test with the UAV Z buffer
const uint DepthAsUint = asuint(SVPosition.w);
const uint DepthToWrite = (Opacity > OpacityThreshold) ? DepthAsUint : INVALID_UINT;
uint OldMinDepthAsUint;
InterlockedMin(OitOpacityThresholdingDepthUAV[int2(SVPosition.xy)], DepthToWrite, OldMinDepthAsUint);
if (DepthAsUint > OldMinDepthAsUint)
{
discard;
}
Unordered Opacity Thresholding

• Added costs to read and write the UAV but reduced the total rendering cost
• +5~10% rendering speed and -15% memory usage
 Reduced heavy lighting costs
 Reduced PPLL size
 No additional draw calls
 Unpredictable performance gain
by the rasterization order
Rendering Results

• More efficient unordered opacity thresholding
 Exploit the order of triangle indices and locality?
 Multiple meshes: adding per-geometry draw calls but reducing per-pixel over draws
• Use ROV for DX12
Future Work: OIT

• Per-pixel lighting for transparent materials
• Based on an experimental feature of UE4
• Limited usage
 For hair / For glass and others in the future
• Supports approximated shadows
 Transparent Deferred Shadows
Forward+ Lighting

• 16x16 tiled culling
• Forward light data
 Constant buffer: faster than Structured Buffer (NV)
 128 bit stride: cache efficiency, under 64KB
 SOA? AOS?
Forward+ Lighting

Forward+ Lighting + Shadowing + Scattering

• Problem of forward shadowing
 Adding complex nested dynamic branch / GPR pressure
 Increasing forward light data (CB): shadow matrix and other parameters
 Using many VRAM simultaneously (CSM and cube shadow maps)
• Transparent shadow approximation:
 Volumetric attenuation on the front-most transparent pixels
 Integrated with the deferred shadow pass
 Inaccurate but acceptable looks
Transparent Deferred Shadows

1) Transparent Z Pre Pass
 Using depth rendering material proxy if needed
 The buffer is used for post processing as well
2) Shadow Depth and Deferred Shadows Passes
 Shadow Depth Pass: Also using depth rendering material proxy
 Deferred Shadows Pass: Compute volume lighting attenuation if transparent Z is less than opaque Z
 Resolve the deferred shadowing buffer into a texture array for each light
3) Forward+ Lighting Pass
 Fetching shadow amount from the texture array and weighting according to opacity
Transparent Deferred Shadows
float DeferredShadow = DeferredShadowsTextureArray.SampleLevel(PointSampler, float3(ScreenUV, LightIndex), 0).x;
DeferredShadow = lerp(1, DeferredShadow, Opacity);

Deferred Shadows : Transparent Deferred Shadows

• Many lights and various materials for forward+ lighting
• Faster reading forward light data
• Better shadowing for inner layers
 Attenuation by screen Z?
• Solve conflict of storage for transparent shadows and single scattering
 Currently single scattering is ignored when hair strands are on the skin
Future Work: Lighting and Shadowing

• Marschner’s: hair strand = cylinder
• Three components of specular
 Primary reflection: R
 Secondary reflection: TRT
 Transmission: TT
• + fake light scattering
Physically Based Shading Model

• Longitudinal Scattering
 Using ALU
 Gaussian function instead of lookup table
• Azimuthal Scattering
 Very complex math
 2D function -> lookup table with constant material properties
 Texture 2D Array: CosPhi, CosTheta, HairProfileID
ALU : Lookup Table
float3 ComputeLongitudinalScattering(float3 Theta, float Roughness)
{
const float bR = DecodeHairLongitudinalWidth(Roughness);
const float3 Beta3 = float3(bR, bR * 0.5, bR * 2);
return exp(-0.5 * Square(Theta) / Square(Beta3) ) / (sqrt(2.0 * PI) * Beta3);
}
U V Index

• Define per-hair properties
 Create a lookup table for azimuthal scattering according to this asset
 G buffer-free
 Reusable
• Lookup table
 Scalar light transfer for TRT and TT / performance reason
 R: R, G: TRT, B: TT, A: Unused
Hair Profile Asset

• To give scalar TRT/TT spectral color
• Physically, volumetric attenuation by transmission
 Angle: light, camera and tangent
 Thickness: 1 - opacity (to brighten hair tips)
 Travel distance of light: 2 * TT = TRT
Color Shift
const float Thickness = (1.0 - Opacity);
const float ColorTintFactor = saturate(CosThetaD) + Square(Thickness) + 1e-4;
const float2 BaseColorTintPower = float2(0.6, 1.2) / ColorTintFactor;
float3 TTColorTint = pow(BaseColor, BaseColorTintPower.x);
float3 TRTColorTint = pow(BaseColor, BaseColorTintPower.y);

• Fake Scattering: similar to UE 4.11
 Volumetric attenuation and color shift using transparent deferred shadows
 Phase function with camera and light vectors: from forward to backward scattering
 Per-light scattering effect
Scattering: Direct Lighting
float3 ScatteringLighting = 0;
if (bShadowed)
{
float HGPhaseFunc = HGPhaseFunctionSchlick(VoL, ScatteringAnisotropy);
float3 ScatteringColor = GBuffer.BaseColor * Shadow;
float3 ScatterAttenuation = saturate(pow(ScatteringColor / Luminance(ScatteringColor), 1.0 - Shadow));
ScatteringLighting = ScatteringColor * ScatterAttenuation * HGPhaseFunc * ScatteringIntensity;
}

• Screen Space Volume Photon Mapping
 Use OIT PPLL as the volume photon map: radiance, normal and depth
 Gather nearest photons on the front-most pixels after sorting
 3 x 3 Gaussian kernel
 Isotropic phase function: hard to handle per-material properties
 Can’t filter radiance from other geometry but it will be attenuated
 Flickering due to UAV writing -> reduced by TAA
Scattering: Indirect Lighting
float2 PhotonScreenUV = InScreenUV + float2(SEARCH_RADIUS * dx, SEARCH_RADIUS * dy);
int2 PhotonAddress = int2(PhotonScreenUV * View.ViewSizeAndInvSize.xy +
View.ViewSizeAndInvSize.zw);
uint PhotonListIndex = OitLinkedListHeadAddressSRV[PhotonAddress];
if (PhotonListIndex == INVALID_UINT)
{
continue;
}
FOitLinkedListDataElement Photon = OitLinkedListDataSRV[PhotonListIndex];
float3 PhotonRadiance = UnpackRGY32(Photon.RadianceRGY32);
float3 PhotonNormal = GetNormalFromPack(Photon.NormalAndOpacity);
float CosTheta = dot(FrontmostNormal, PhotonNormal);
float3 PhotonPositionWS = ConstructWorldPosition(PhotonScreenUV, asfloat(Photon.Depth));
float R3 = distance(FrontmostPositionWS, PhotonPositionWS) * PHOTON_DISTANCE_SCALE;
float3 PhotonContribution = 3.0 * PhotonRadiance;
PhotonContribution /= R3;
PhotonContribution *= HGPhaseFunctionSchlick(CosTheta, MATERIAL_ANISOTROPY); // isotropic
GaussPhotonScattering += PhotonContribution * GaussianWeights[GaussianWeightIndex];

Screen Space Volume Photon Mapping

Diffuse Lighting
• Tangent Lambertian
DiffuseLighting = max(0, sqrt(1 – SinThetaI * SinTetaI))
* EnergeConservingWrappedDiffuse(N, L, 1)
* DiffuseIntensity

• Specular parameters
 Noise: fuzzy highlight
 Roughness: width and strength of highlight
 Shift: position of highlight peek
 + binding a hair profile asset
• Diffuse, fake scattering and textures
• Other hair parameters
-> To create various styled hairs
Hair Material

• Better scattering
• Material LOD
• Finding the best method for a certain hair style
Future Work: Hair Shading

• Experimental
• Anisotropic GGX
• Far Cry 4 style
• To all lighting components
 Direct lighting, sky lighting, reflection environment, SSR, etc.
 Using tangent irradiance map?
Anisotropic Specular

• For a character viewer and a lobby
 EVSM: Exponential Variance Shadow Maps
• For the game scene
 Sun: PCSS
 Other types of lights: PCF / No changes from UE4
 Additional shadows: Screen Space Inner Shadows (new feature)
Scene-Specific Shadows

• Experimental
• Pre-filtered shadows
 No changes from the original algorithm
 Nice look but light leaks and low performance
• Optimization
 CSM split limits: maximum 2
 Scissor test: larger than screen space shadow bounds
EVSM

• For Sun in the game scene
• One of an effect of time of lighting changes
 Day and night cycle in the game play
 Different blur size by time: sharp at noon, soft at sunrise and sunset
 Different blur size by distance between occluders and receivers
• Optimization
 CSM split limits: maximum 2
• Temporal reprojection
 Reduce flickering due to moving Sun, and sampling artifacts
 Lerp according to difference between prev and current frame
PCSS
float2 Attenuation = Texture2DSample(SunLightAttenuationTexture, TextureSamplerPoint, PrevScreenUV).xy;
float2 ShadowAndSSSTransmission = float2(Shadow, SSSTransmission);
const float2 TAAFactor = Square(1.0 - abs(ShadowAndSSSTransmission - Attenuation));
ShadowAndSSSTransmission = lerp(ShadowAndSSSTransmission, Attenuation, 0.5 * TAAFactor);

Rendering AAA-Quality Characters of Project A1

• Shadows in shadows:
 Darker shadows on environment occluded by characters
 Better looks when a character is on the shadowed surfaces
 Directionality: difference from AO
• Using scene depth
 No preprocessing or asset settings
 Comparison> Capsule based: The Order: 1886 or UE 4.11
Screen Space Inner Shadows

• G-buffer changes: add caster and receiver bit masks
1) Stencil Masking Pass
 Write stencil at shadowed pixels by Sun
 Ignore unlit pixels
2) Shadow Rendering Pass: SSR styled ray marching
 Shoot rays to the half vector between Sun and Sky
 Limit max tracing distance: artistic choice and performance win
 Temporal reprojection to the previous frame’s buffer
L Sky
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Sun ShadowInner Shadow

• ½ resolution buffer
• Separable Gaussian blur
• Approximately 0.5 ms
• Shadow amount is applied for
sky lighting and GI with a receiver mask

• Important for game visuals
 Look
 Day and night cycle
• How to reduce costs and flickering?
 High draw calls
 Moving Sun
Future Work: Shadow Rendering

Run-time Rigged Physics Simulation

• Movement of short hair
• Trembling body fat and cloth wrinkles
• To reduce work load of artists
Goal

• Define simulator assets in the editor
 Currently we support spring simulation only
• Group vertices
 According to vertex colors roughly painted by artists, and the simulator assets
• Sample simulator bones
 In the bounds of a vertex group / according to a density setting / snap to the nearest vertex
 Poisson distribution / deterministic sampling
• Rig the simulator bones
 Simulator bone -> become a child of the nearest bone in a character
 Vertex -> rigged with the nearest simulator bone
 Distance based skinning weights
Algorithm

• Trying to rich animation with various methods
 Module based animation
 Procedural animation
 Physics simulation
• They may be introduced by other conferences
 ex) NDC 2017?
Animation Techniques of A1

• Using the GPU profiler of UE4
 Checking rendering costs and doing high level shader optimization
• Using RenderDoc, Intel GPA, and AMD GPU PerfStudio
 Debugging shader code and doing low level shader optimization
• Rewriting shader code by hand with optimization references
Approach

• Only critical parts of shader written by Epic Games
 To upgrade a new version of the engine continously
 We will check all of shader code before shipping
• Currently we focus on shader written by ours
• This talk shows examples of our optimization
Target Code

Before After
Static Branch with Preprocessor
float3 L = (LightPositionAndIsDirectional.w == 1)
? -LightPositionAndIsDirectional.xyz
: normalize(LightPositionAndIsDirectional.xyz
- OpaqueWorldPosition);
#if USE_FADE_PLANE // CSM case = directional light
float3 L = -LightPositionAndIsDirectional.xyz;
#else
float3 L = (LightPositionAndIsDirectional.w == 1)
? -LightPositionAndIsDirectional.xyz
: normalize(LightPositionAndIsDirectional.xyz
- OpaqueWorldPosition);
#endif

Before After
Vectorization and Explicit MAD
float2 LookupUV = float2(CosPhiD, CosThetaD) * 0.5 + 0.5;
float Backlit = saturate(-CosThetaD * 0.5 + 0.5);
float3 LookupUVandBacklit = saturate(mad(float3(CosPhiD,
CosThetaD, -CosThetaD), 0.5, 0.5));

Before After
Share Preceding Computation
for (int X = 0; X < NumSamplesSqrt; ++X)
{
for (int Y = 0; Y < NumSamplesSqrt; Y++)
{
float2 ShadowOffset = TexelSize * StepSize
* float2(X, Y);
const float2 BaseTexelSize = TexelSize * StepSize;
…
for (int X = 0; X < NumSamplesSqrt; ++X)
{
for (int Y = 0; Y < NumSamplesSqrt; Y++)
{
float2 ShadowOffset = BaseTexelSize * float2(X, Y);

Before After
Rearrange Scalar/Vector Operation
float3 DiffuseLighting = (TangentDiffuse * GBuffer.DiffuseColor)
/ PI * NoLWrapped * ShadowColor;
float3 DiffuseLighting = GBuffer.DiffuseColor
* (TangentDiffuse / PI * NoLWrapped * ShadowColor);

Before After
Use Modifiers as Input
Force += -normalize(Position) * Simulation.GravityStrength; Force += normalize(-Position) * Simulation.GravityStrength;

Before After
Rearrange Code Lines
// 무언가 긴 작업…
//
clip(OpacityMask);
// 셰이더 메인이 시작 후 최대한 빨리…
//
clip(OpacityMask);

Use termination if possible
Early-Z, Stencil, and Discard
if (GBuffer.ShadingModelID != 0)
{
discard;
}
float Attenuation = Texture2DSample(SunLightAttenuationTexture, TextureSamplerPoint, ScreenUV).x;
if (Attenuation > 0.99)
{
discard;
}
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[EARLYDEPTHSTENCIL]
void OrderIndependentTransparencyCompositePixelMain(
float2 InScreenUV: TexCoord0, float4 InSVPosition: SV_Position, out float4 OutColor: SV_Target0)
{
…

Data packing and cache line alignment
ALU VS. lookup table
Misc.: Above Metioned
#if OIT_PACK_RADIANCE
uint RadianceRGY32;
#else
half4 Radiance;
#endif
float3 ComputeLongitudinalScattering(float3 Theta, float Roughness)
{
const float bR = DecodeHairLongitudinalWidth(Roughness);
const float3 Beta3 = float3(bR, bR * 0.5, bR * 2);
return exp(-0.5 * Square(Theta) / Square(Beta3) ) / (sqrt(2.0 * PI) * Beta3);
}

• Continuous work
• Optimization of shader written by Epic Games
• Although aggressive and smart optimization of a shader compiler is
amazing, it sometimes produces unwanted results.
• Need explicitly writing GPU friendly code and checking disassembly
Future Work: Low Level Shader Optimization

• New IP of Nexon
• AAA-Quality Graphics
• With Cutting Edge Graphics Technology
• In Development
Summary of This Talk

• Colleagues of A1
• Support Team of Epic Korea
• Authors of References
Acknowledgement

• AMD TressFX Hair
 http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/tressfx
• Burke, “Hair In Destiny”, SIGGRAPH 2014
 http://advances.realtimerendering.com/destiny/siggraph2014/heads/
• Burley, “Extending the Disney BRDF to a BSDF with Integrated Subsurface Scattering”, SIGGRAPH 2015
 http://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2015-shading-course/#course_content
• d‘Eon, “An Energy-Conserving Hair Reflectance Model”, ESR 2011
 http://www.eugenedeon.com/
• GCN Performance Tweets
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 http://amzn.to/1TxzadP
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