“Special Effects with Depth” talk at SIGGRAPH

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“Special Effects with Depth” talk at SIGGRAPH

by Kuba Cupisz on Demos, Tutorials and Tips, Events, Technology

Ole and I promised to share the slides from our talk at the SIGGRAPH 2011 Studio. The presentation covers various graphics techniques that use depth, normals and color buffers. The methods range from improving standard techniques to creating entirely new ones, like approximate volumetric effects or advanced image post-processing. The buffers used are in many cases the natural products of the rendering pipeline and offer a way to infer surprisingly much information about the scene, thus allowing for very rich and fast graphics effects.

It may be a worthy read both for artists and programmers, as we discuss the possibilities of some unusual special effects and their technical side.

Get it while it’s fresh: Special Effects with Depth (14MB pdf)

Yours,

Kuba and Ole

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Comments (16)

HPG/SIGGRAPH 2011 « Self Shadow

Sep 8th, 2011
4:40 pm

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Gustav

Sep 8th, 2011
6:50 pm

Awesome! You guys have the best jobs ever

JoeW

Sep 8th, 2011
7:53 pm

This is great stuff! So, is this available to us non-coder types, or is it something that requires custom shaders be programmed?

Rea

Sep 9th, 2011
3:18 am

Impressive…..that point light shaft looks cool

Kuba Cupisz

Sep 9th, 2011
3:31 am

@Gustav: we like to think so

@JoeW: everything shown in the presentation can be done with vanilla Unity 3.x. As soon as we have some time on our hands we will publish a package for each of the effects to the Asset Store. Stay tuned!

Georges Paz

Sep 9th, 2011
9:59 am

Point light shafts? Where :O

Georges Paz

Sep 9th, 2011
11:21 am

Make sure to include those lovely image effects in your next version (3.5)!