Alan Wake -Building the Technology- Trailer

Alan Wake(心靈殺手)這部2010年三月release的Xbox 360獨占遊戲，其開發商為Remedy Entertainment，公司團隊位於芬蘭，團隊創立於1995年，已具有15年的開發經驗，近年來的作品為Max Payne(江湖本色)系列。
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這次本作品的引擎為自行開發，由於市面上的引擎無法滿足其光影以及技術上的需求。

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tex2D vs. tex2Dproj

texCoord( texX, texY, texZ , texW ) means texture coordinate after transforming from the texture matrix [ position goes through world, view, projection, and texture ] . We can use texCoord to fetch texture: 1. float4 color = tex2D( sampler, float2( texX / texW, texY/texW ); 2. float4 color = tex2Dporj( sampler, float4( texX, texY, texZ, texW ) ); The top-two methods will have the same result. Because tex2Dproj operator supports divide w in its interface. http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=408894 http://bbs.gameres.com/showthread.asp?threadid=104316

Fast subsurface scattering

Fig.1 - Fast Subsurface scattering of Stanford Bunny Based on the implementation of three.js . It provides a cheap, fast, and convincing approach to do ray-tracing in translucent surfaces. It refers the sharing in GDC 2011 [1], and the approach is used by Frostbite 2 and Unity engines [1][2][3]. Traditionally, when a ray intersects with surfaces, it needs to calculate the bouncing result after intersections. Materials can be divided into three types roughly. Opaque , lights can't go through its geometry and the ray will be bounced back. Transparency , the ray passes and allow it through the surface totally, it probably would loose a little energy after leaving. Translucency , the ray after entering the surface will be bounced internally like below Fig. 2. Fig.2 - BSSRDF [1] In the case of translucency, we have several subsurface scattering approaches to solve our problem. When a light is traveling inside the shape, that needs to consider the diffuse value influe

Bringing Large Scale Console Game to iOS

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