Comments on: GDC 2010: Streaming Massive Environments from 0 to 200 MPH

By: GDC 2010: How to Honestly Lie To Your Players « Double Buffered

GDC 2010: How to Honestly Lie To Your Players « Double Buffered — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:46:29 +0000

[...] Chris Zimmerman laid out in detail how to lie to the player about what their hands did. Chris Tector explained how to perform a deeply technical form of lying to build the illusion of a continuous [...]

By: Infovore » Links for March 17th through March 18th

Infovore » Links for March 17th through March 18th — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:01:27 +0000

[...] GDC 2010: Streaming Massive Environments from 0 to 200 MPH « Double Buffered "Here’s my notes for the talk Streaming Massive Environments from 0 to 200 MPH presented by Chris Tector from Turn 10 Studios. He’s listed as a Software Architect there, and obviously has a deep understanding of the streaming system they used on Forza 3. This talk was nice and deep technically, and touches all parts of the spectrum." Very technical. But: if you can grok what's going on (and this is about at the limits of my simple understanding – could barely start to recreate what's described), it's very interesting about the challenge of rendering beautiful, high detail environments at a solid 60fps, mainly by pre-preparing a lot, and maximising streaming performance both from disk and from memory. (tags: turn10 forza programming games streaming gdc10 rendering bitdifficultreally ) [...]

By: GDC 2010: Officially a Thing « Double Buffered

GDC 2010: Officially a Thing « Double Buffered — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:21:31 +0000

[...] from 0 to 200 MPH or The Nuovo Sessions depending on how “Nuovo” I feel. (Wrote up my notes for the Streaming talk, it was nice and [...]