Wolfgang Engels GPU Pro 360 Guide to 3D Engine Design gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous seven GPU Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology that covers the design of a 3D engine. This volume is complete with articles by leading programmers that focus on various aspects of 3D engine design such as quality and optimization as well as high-level architecture. GPU Pro 360 Guide to 3D Engine Design is comprised of ready-to-use ideas and efficient procedures that can help solve many computer graphics programming challenges that may arise.
Key Features:
Presents tips & tricks on real-time rendering of special effects and visualization data on common consumer software platforms such as PCs, video consoles, mobile devices
Covers specific challenges involved in creating games on various platforms
Explores the latest developments in rapidly evolving field of real-time rendering
Takes practical approach that helps graphics programmers solve their daily challenges
1. Optimizing a 3D UI Engine for Mobile Devices
3. Post-Processing
Effects on Mobile Devices
4. Shader-Based Water Effects
5. Realtistic
Real-Time Skin Rendering on Mobile
6. Deferred Rendering Teniques on Mobile
Devices
7. Bandwidth Efficient Graphics with ARM Mali GPUs
8. Efficient Morph
Target Animation Using Open GL ES 3.0
9. Tiled Deferred Blending
10.
Adaptable Scalable Texture Compression
11. Optimizing OpenCL Kernals for ther
ARM Mali-T600 GPUs
12. Hybrid Ray Tracing on a Power VR GPU
13. Implementing
a GPU-Only Particle-Collision System with ASTC 3D Textures and Open ES 3.0
14. Animated aracters with Shell Fur for Mobile Devices
15. High Dynamic
Range Computational Photography on Mobile GPUs
16. Efficient Soft Shadows
Based on Static Local Cubemap
17. Physically-Based Deferred Shading on Mobile
Wolfgang Engel is the CEO of Confetti, a think tank for advanced real-time graphics for the games and movie industries. Previously he worked in Rockstar's core technology group as the lead graphics programmer.