Radiator Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

While I appreciate "oral history" approaches at Polygon like with their Morrowind roundtable , this type of format is, less charitably, just a lazy loosely organized transcript with minimal analysis. And extra special thanks to Ben "Makkon" Hale , who made the amazing Quake logo renders you see in the articles.

Writing 130

Writing Polygon Dev AAA 130

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

billion triangles running over 60 FPS in 4K on an NVIDIA 3060Ti. His work focuses on the rendering engine in Justice, specifically GPU features enabled by DirectX 12. Our first thought is to render some highly detailed models which may need insane number of triangles. And we decided to try it out. Actually, it works.

Mesh 52

Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing 52

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Step by step to dense vegetation and acceptable FPS. The big problem was (and still is in some cases): HOW CAN WE GENERATE DENSE VEGETATION AND PLACE IT FAST AND WITHOUT TO MUCH FPS DROP AFTER THE GENERATION PROCESS ? Static batching : combines static (not moving) GameObjects into big Meshes, and renders them in a faster way.  

Mesh 52

Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it.

Collision 52

Collision Bug Mesh Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it.

Bug 52

Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it.

Bug 52

Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it.

Bug 52

Bug Collision Mesh Render 52