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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black F
Lighting, Weather and Atmospheric Effects
Bart Wronski, 3D Programmer, Ubisoft Montreal
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Background
Next-gen consoles launch title!
…but done for previous generation as well
Current-gen was dominating install-base and we cared a lot about those players
Constraints on assets duplication and extra artist work
Next-gen improvements had to be procedural
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Presentation overview
Lighting and Global Illumination Improvements over Assassin’s Creed 3
Global illumination solution
Ambient Occlusion: temporal-supersampled SSAO
Multi-resolution ambient occlusion
Atmospheric and weather effects
Rain ripples and wet materials
Screenspace reflections
GPU simulated rain
Volumetric fog
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LIGHTING
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Assassin’s Creed 3 lighting – PS3
screenshot
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Lighting improvements
Key problems
Overall flatness
Lack of sense of position and directionality
Loss of normal mapping information
Requirements
Prototyped multiple real-time GI solutions,
none of them looked good enough
Partially baked solution
Vast open world with sparse dense areas
Dynamic weather / time of day
Work on current gen (~1ms / < 1MB for GPU)
Small impact on art pipelines
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Far Cry 3 solution: Deferred Radiance Transfer Volumes Of f l i n eR un t i m e
PRT based - compute radiance transfer
Store in 2nd order SH in light probes for 4 basis vectors
Compute irradiance on the CPU
Store it in volume texture
Perform deferred lighting in half res on GPU
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Far Cry 3 GI - Deferred Radiance Transfer Volumes
Pros
Robust and fully dynamic
Compatible with PS3&X360
Cheap on GPU (0.7ms on PS3!)
Production ready
Volumetric
Low memory and CPU cost
Cons
Low spatial resolution (4m)
Low contrast and temporal variance
Low occlusion precision
Half resolution edge artifacts
Generation/baking time
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New solution – background
• One key light
• Weather has no influence on light direction
• Small amount of local lights
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Deferred Normalized Irradiance Prob
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Normalized irradiance
Surrounding environment lit with neutral color Integrate in one direction like standard irradiance
Denormalize = multiply by current light color
Irradiance image source: http://escience.anu.edu.au/lecture/cg/GlobalIllumination/irradiance.en.html
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Deferred Normalized Irradiance Probes
• On GPU bake sunlight bounce irradiance
• Store irradiance at 8 different hours
• Compute 2D VRAM textures (many lightprobes)
• De-normalize and blend irradiances
•Blend out bounced lighting with height
• Combine with indirect sky lighting and AO
Of f l i n e
R u
n t i m e
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Implementation – tool side
Place probes with navmesh
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Data storage
● 8 key-framed values a day● 8-bit RGB normalized irradiance
● 4 basis vectors (FC3 basis)
● Uniform grid 2m x 2m
● Only one layer● 2.5D world layout / structure
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Implementation – tool side
Place probes with navmesh
For each probe, generate multiple cubemaps
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BBBB
GGGG
R R R R
For each cube map, compute irradiance in 4 directions,packed in 3 RGBA
Do that for all times of day
0:00 3:00 6:00 21:00…
Implementation – tool side
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Each Texture contains this data for 16x16 probes
0:00 3:00 6:00 9:00 12:00 15:00 18:00 21:00
BBBB
GGGG
RRRR
16
16
Implementation – tool side
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Implementation – tool side
Optimizations
Limit cubemap camera far plane (10-30m should be enough)
Re-use G-buffer between different day times
Reuse shadowmaps between multiple probes
Use only one, big in size and resolution cascade per sector
Special, simpler path for scene traversal code
Do the convolution and keep all the data on the GPU until you need to savefinal textures!
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Deferred Normalized Irradiance Probes
• On GPU bake sunlight bounce irradiance
• Store irradiance at 8 different hours
• Compute 2D VRAM textures (many lightprobes)
• De-normalize and blend irradiances
•
Blend out bounced lighting with height• Combine with indirect sky lighting and AO
Of f l i n e
R un t i m e
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Implementation – runtime
Generate on GPU denormalized data in 3 textures
Blit sectors surrounding camera: select slice / apply sun color
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Implementation – runtime
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Benchmarks and summary
GPU performance cost 1.2ms fullscreen pass - PS3
Memory cost (probe data) 600kb (VRAM only)
Memory cost (render targets) 56kb
CPU cost 0.6ms (amortized)
Num probes in Havana bruteforce ~110 000
Num probes in Havana trimmed ~30 000Full baking time for Havana 8 minutes (nVidia GTX 680, one
machine)
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Ground color
bleeding
Lack of side
bounce
Basis not
normalized
Current basis vs typical cubemap basis
Limitations and future improvements
Lack of energy
conservation
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Future work
Change basis to more accurate one
Increase probe density in X/Y/Z
Use real HDR irradiance with sky lighting
Multiple bounces
Update closest probes in the runtime (cheap, GPU-only code!)
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Ambient Occlusion
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SSAO sample number increase by using
temporal supersampling
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No temporal
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Temporal
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Ambient occlusion
SSAO is not enough to represent sky lighting occlusion…
Even multi-res approaches won’t catch all occlusion
Idea – separate ambient occlusion into multiple frequency bands
Every frequency band calculated with a different algorithm!
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Multi-resolution ambient occlusion
Example by Inigo Quilez
Source: http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/multiresaocc/multiresaocc.htm
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World Ambient Occlusion
Needed large scale sky occlusion for direct sky lighting from buildings and trees
World Ambient Occlusion
Technique developed for Assassin’s Creed 3
See Jean-Francois St-Amour talk from GDC 2013!
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World Ambient Occlusion
OFFLINE
RENDER SCENE DEPTH FROM TOP
7X7 GAUSSIAN BLUR ON THE DEPTH
AT RUNTIME:
SAMPLE WORLD AO TO GET AN ESTIMATED
OCCLUDER HEIGHT
SAMPLE OFFSET BY XY NORMAL
APPLY AO TO SKY AMBIENT LIGHTING ONLY
BAKED SUN BOUNCE IRRADIANCE ALREADY
CONTAINS THIS FREQUENCY OF INFORMATION!
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Atmospheric and weather effects
At h i ff t
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Atmospheric effects
Caribbean tropical climate extremely unpredictable Goes from dusty and dry to showers and storms within minutes
Already had coherent and robust weather system from AC3
Need for new cool, next-gen procedural atmospheric effects!
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GPU Procedural Rain
Rain ripples
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No ripples
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Ripples
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Rain ripples
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Rain ripples
CS: Spawn and evolve rainripples PS: Draw rain ripples intosigned heighfield texture PS: Calculate heiderivative
Field Type
Position float2
Life float
Max life float
Strength float
Max radius float
Updated rain ripple structure 256x256 signed R8G256x256 signed R8 texture
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Drawing rain ripples – geometry
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Drawing rain ripples geometry
multiplication using geometry shaders
Rain ripples
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Rain ripples
Single pass to apply it on screen and perturb existing normals
Wrap texture around in world space
World AO is sky occlusion…
… so use it for rain occlusion = no additional runtime cost
Rain ripples update and texture generation cost ~0.2ms
Perturbing normals can be a separate pass (~0.4ms) or combined with lighting(pipelined well and “free”!)
Wet materials
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Wet materials
Surface wetness stored in G-buffer
“Baked” for wet areas or modifieddynamically by weather
Use it during lighting pass to update gloss
and albedo
Increase the gloss, darken the albedo
Same technique used in Assassin’s Creed 3
..but enhanced using screenspacereflections!
No screen-space reflections
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Screen-space reflections
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GPU P d l R i
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GPU Procedural Rain
Rain drops
Procedural rain drops
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Procedural rain drops
● Fully GPU-driven – compute and
geometry shaders● Simulate 3x3 grid of rain clustersaround the camera
● Avoids “popping” of new rain dropsand guarantees uniform distribution
● Render only visible clusters (CPU
culling)Clusters simulated
Clusters simulated
and rendered
Procedural rain simulation
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Procedural rain simulation
Multiple factors taken into account Random rain drop mass and size
Wind and gravity
Rain-map for simple sky occlusion
Top-down close range 128x128 “shadowmap”
Rain map
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Rain map
Procedural rain simulation
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Rain map used together with WorldAO for rain occlusion (different range and precision)
Screen-space collisions with depth buffer
Spawning new particles on collision
Simulating bounced rain drops
GPU Procedural Rain update scheme
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CS: Spawn point sprites
read/writestructured
buffers
CS: Update/simulatepoint sprites
VS/GS/PS: Expand
point sprites toparticles and draw
Frame N
CS: Spawn point sprites
CS: Update/simulatepoint sprites
VS/GS/PS: Expand
point sprites toparticles and draw
Frame N+1
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Rain performance
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CS: Update rain drops (up to 320k particles) <0.1ms
CS: Screenspace collision 0.2ms
CS: Update bounced drops <0.05ms
GS/VS/PS: Draw rain drops 0.4-4.0ms
● CS Particle update cost negligible
● Possible to implement complex update logic
● Some features (“true” random()) are tricky● Move more particle systems to the GPU
● Didn’t really need to optimize any of CS shaders
● Geometry Shaders were huge performance bottleneck
Geometry shader optimizations
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Minimize memory processed and generated by GS
Minimize number of generated vertices Minimize input/output vertex size
Implement GPU frustum/occlusion culling in GS
…but if you don’t have to, just don’t use them!
Change for indexed draw call with manual instancing /
fetching
Better performance, less shader stages
Volumetric Fog
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Volumetric fog
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Volumetric fog
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Works great for fog, mist and haze in humid climate
Perfectly complements rain storm effect (procedural animation)
Possible to simulate all atmospheric scattering phenomena
Light shafts and multiple light sources
1.1ms total on consoles!
…for implementation details see my GDC 2014 talk!
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Credits
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Alexandre Lahaise Michel Bouchard
Benjamin Goldstein Mickael GilabertBenjamin Rouveyrol Nicolas Vibert
Benoit Miller Thierry Carle
John Huelin Typhaine Le Gallo
Lionel Berenguier Wei Xiang
Luc Poirier
Special thanks
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Benjamin Rouveyrol for materials for GI slides
Rest of GI Team: Benjamin Rouveyrol, John Huelin and Mickael Gilabert
Wei Xiang for initial implementation of rain
Assassin’s Creed 4 technical art directors: Danny Oros, Guillaume Lefebvre,
Philippe Ringuette-Angrignon, Philippe Trarieux, Sebastien Larrue
Questions?
C !
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Contact me!
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @BartWronsk
Slides on my blog
www.bartwronski.com
References
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• Gilabert and Stefanov “Deferred Radiance Transfer Volumes – Global Illumination
in Far Cry 3”, GDC 2012
• Mitchell, “Shading in Valve’s Source Engine”, SIGGRAPH 2006
• Sloan et al, “Precomputed Radiance Transfer for Real-Time Rendering in Dynamic,Low-Frequency Lighting Environments”, SIGGRAPH 2002
• Quilez, post aboot Multi-resolution ambient occlusion
http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/multiresaocc/multiresaocc.htm
• St-Amour, “Rendering Assassin's Creed III”, GDC 2013
• Hoffman, “Rendering Outdoor Light Scattering in Real Time”, GDC 2002
• Kaplanyan, “Light Propagation Volumes”, Siggraph 2009
• Myers, “Variance Shadow Mapping”, NVIDIA Corporation
• Annen et al, “Exponential Shadow Maps”, Hasselt University
• Andersson and Bavoil, “Stable SSAO in Battlefield 3 with Selective Temporal
Filtering”
• Smedberg and Wright, “Rendering Techniques in GEARS OF WAR 2”
• Bilodeau, “Vertex Shader Tricks”
• Wronski, “Assassin’s Creed 4 – road to next-gen graphics”, GDC 2014