{"id":995,"date":"2015-05-18T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T12:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/?p=995"},"modified":"2015-07-16T08:03:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T08:03:18","slug":"reverse-engineering-the-rendering-of-a-frame-in-deus-ex-human-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/2015\/05\/18\/reverse-engineering-the-rendering-of-a-frame-in-deus-ex-human-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverse engineering the rendering of a frame in Deus Ex: Human Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, Adrian Courr\u00e8ges<\/a> wrote an article detailing his findings while reverse engineering the rendering pipeline in Deus Ex: Human Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Starting from a given frame, he illustrates the different stages in the rendering: creation of the G buffer, shadow map, ambient occlusion, light prepass, how opaque and transparent objects are treated differently, volumetric lights, bloom effect in LDR, anti-aliasing and color correction, the depth of field, and finally the object interaction visual feedback.<\/p>\n

Here are a few screenshots stolen from his article:<\/p>\n

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Normal map<\/p><\/div>\n

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The light pre-pass<\/p><\/div>\n

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Final image<\/p><\/div>\n

Update<\/strong>:
\nAdrian since then posted a new article, this time breaking down the rendering of a frame in Supreme Commander<\/a>. The comments also include insights from the programmer then in charge of the rendering, Jon Mavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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