| Physically Simulated Clothing in Eve Incarna Using NVIDIA APEX |
Speaker: Vigfus Omarsson (Lead Technical Artist, CCP), Snorri Sturluson (Senior Software Engineer, CCP), Monier Maher (APEX Product Manager, NVIDIA)
Date/Time: Thursday (March 11, 2010) 1:30pm — 2:30pm
Track: Visual Arts
Experience Level: All |
| In this session, we will demonstrate how CCP added physically simulated clothing to their Eve Incarna characters using NVIDIA's APEX Clothing. We will demonstrate, step by step, the full authoring pipeline, from DCC tools to final integration into the game engine. This session introduces the full NVIDIA APEX suite of artist friendly tools and runtime libraries (Clothing, Destruction, Particles, Turbulence & Vegetation), which significantly speed up creation and inclusion of scalable, dynamic content without a large engineering effort. |
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| Authoring Physically Simulated Destruction with NVIDIA APEX |
Speaker: Bryan Galdrikian (Senior Application Engineer, NVIDIA), Dane Johnston (Technical Artist, NVIDIA)
Date/Time: Thursday (March 11, 2010) 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Track: Visual Arts
Experience Level: All |
In this session we will show how an artist can quickly add cinematic scale destruction to their game levels using NVIDIA APEX Destruction. We will demonstrate, step by step, the full authoring pipeline, from DCC tools to final integration into a game engine, including a case study. This session introduces the full NVIDIA APEX suite of artist friendly tools and runtime libraries (Clothing, Destruction, Particles, Turbulence & Vegetation), which greatly speeds up development of scalable, dynamic content without requiring a large engineering effort |
| NVIDIA's New Game Development Environment: NVIDIA Parallel Nsight™ |
Speaker: Jeffrey Kiel (Manager of Graphics Tools, NVIDIA), Kumar Iyer (Product Manager, NVIDIA), Sebastien Domine (Senior Director of Development Tools, NVIDIA)
Date/Time: Thursday (March 11, 2010) 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Track: Programming
Experience Level: All |
| Come learn about NVIDIA's new development environment for heterogeneous (CPU+GPU) platforms, integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio. This is the world's first GPU hardware source debugger for HLSL shaders, DirectCompute and CUDA C++, and adds powerful DirectX 10 and 11 frame capture and analysis, pixel history, and platform-level performance tools that can show you activities across your GPU, CPU and the operating system. One platform allows you to seamlessly develop CPU and GPU code for the first time. Session attendees will see a live demo of the GPU development environment, and learn how to debug and optimize their GPU code and API usage directly from Visual Studio. Attendees will also learn how to get access to the Beta program for this game-changing development tool. |
| Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D (Full Day Tutorial) |
Speakers:
Holger Gruen, AMD
Simon Green, Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA
Ashu Rege, Developer Relations, Nvidia
Richard Huddy, Developer Relations Manager, AMD
Nicolas Thibieroz, European Developer Relations, AMD
Sarah Tariq, Developer Technology Software Engineer, NVIDIA
Jon Story, AMD
Cem Cebenoyan, Developer Technology Manager, NVIDIA
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Brought to you with the collaboration of the industry´s leading hardware and software vendors, this day-long tutorial provides an in-depth look at the Direct3D® technologies in DirectX® 10, 10.1 and 11, and how they can be applied to cutting-edge game graphics. The primary focus will be on DirectX 11, examining a variety of special effects which illustrate its use in real game content. This will include detailed presentations from AMD and NVIDIA´s demo and developer relations teams as well as some of the top game developers who ship real games into the marketplace. In addition to illustrating the details of rendering advanced real-time visual effects, this tutorial will cover a series of vendor-neutral optimizations that developers need to keep in mind when designing their engines and shaders. |
| [Khronos-sponsored Session] OpenCL |
Speaker: Neil Trevett (President, Khronos Group)
Date/Time: Thursday (March 11, 2010) 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Track: Programming
Experience Level: Intermediate |
| OpenCL is the open, royalty-free standard for general purpose parallel programming across CPUs, GPUs and other processors. OpenCL provides software developers portable and efficient access to the full power of a wide range of systems including high-performance compute servers, desktop computer systems and handheld devices. OpenCL defines a high-performance, portable parallel programming abstraction to accelerate a wide range of applications, including consumer, media, scientific and HPC solutions. By creating an efficient, close-to-the-metal programming interface, OpenCL is the foundation layer of a parallel computing ecosystem of platform-independent tools, middleware and applications. At this session you will meet designers and implementers of this significant new standard for heterogeneous parallel programming on GPUs and CPUs, and learn how OpenCL inter-operates with OpenGL and DirectX, enabling advanced, cross-platform, gaming visual computing applications. . |
| | APEX Clothing with 3ds Max (external link, opens in new window)
Gavin Kistner, Product Designer, NVIDIA |
| | NVIDIA Immersive Gaming–3D and Multi-Display Support (external link, opens in new window)
Andrew Fear, Senior Product Manager, Consumer 3D Products, NVIDIA |
| | Practical Triangle Tessellation (external link, opens in new window)
Dan Amerson, Technical Director, Runtime: Emergent Game Technologies |
| | Enlighten: Total Artistic Control over Game Lighting (external link, opens in new window)
Chris Doran, COO and Founder, GEOMERICS
Ivan Pedersen, Lead Artist, GEOMERICS |
| | Unity for Engineers (external link, opens in new window)
Lucas Meijer, Engineer, Principal Presenter, Unity
Aras Pranckevicius, Lead Graphics Engineer, Unity |
| | Physically Simulated Clothing By CCP (EVE Online) Using NVIDIA APEX (external link, opens in new window)
Vigfus Omarsson, Lead Technical Artist, CCP
Snorri Sturluson, Senior Software Engineer, CCP
Monier Maher, APEX Product Manager, NVIDIA |
| | APEX Vegetation with the SpeedTree® Modeler (external link, opens in new window)
Michael Sechrest, President and Co-Founder, Interactive Data Visualization (IDV), Inc.,
Lou Rohan, Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA |
| | Vision Engine 8 (external link, opens in new window)
Dag Frommhold, Managing Partner, Trinigy |
| | Parallel Nsight: GPU Development in Visual Studio (external link, opens in new window)
Kumar Iyer, Product Manager, NVIDIA |
| | Practical Use of Tessellation in Unigine Heaven Benchmark (external link, opens in new window)
Denis Shergin, CEO and Co-Founder, Unigine Corp.
Alexander Zaprjagaev, CTO, Unigine Corp. |
| | Lip Syncing with Face Robot using Softimage 2011 (external link, opens in new window)
Mark Schoennagel, Senior 3D Evangelist, Autodesk Softimage |
| | Advanced OpenGL, OpenGL ES and OpenCL debugging and profiling using gDEBugger (external link, opens in new window) |
| | Avi Shapira, Founder and CEO of Graphic Remedy |
| | CryENGINE®3 (external link, opens in new window) |
| | Sean Tracy, Field Applications Engineer, Crytek |
| | DMM2–Next Generation Digital Molecular Matter by Pixelux (external link, opens in new window) |
| | Mitch Bunnell, Chief Executive Officer, Pixelux Entertainment, Inc. |
| | APEX Destruction using PhysX Lab (external link, opens in new window) |
| | Bryan Galdrikian, Senior Apps Engineer, Physics R&D, NVIDIA |
In this session we will talk about 3D fluid simulation driven effects that we created in the game Dark Void. We will go over the details of how to implement a seamless, scalable and direct-able fluid simulation in a game engine and use it to create the next generation of fluid driven effects. We believe that these techniques are feasible for games, not just tech demos and movies, and we hope to inspire the audience into using such techniques to create amazing effects in their own games. Intended Audience Effects programmers and visual effect artists interested in realistic and visually compelling fluid simulation. Some background in fluid simulation techniques would be useful but not required. Takeaway Highly detailed, interactive fluid simulation is not something we can only hope to see in movies or in tech demos; it is a feasible technology which is being used to make fantastic effects in shipping games today. In this session we will go over the details of how to implement a seamless, scalable and direct-able fluid simulation in a game engine and how to use it to create the next generation of fluid driven effects. 
