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Far Cry 4 and Assassin's Creed Unity: Spicing up PC Graphics With Far Cry 4 and Assassin’s Creed Unity: Spicing Up PC Graphics with GameWorks Andrei Tatarinov, Senior Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA What games are we dealing with? How to make these games look even better on PC? Agenda The Mighty Three: HBAO+, PCSS, TXAA Far Cry 4: Making the beasts look cute Far Cry 4: Illuminating Kyrat with divine light 2 Far Cry 4 Open-world action-adventure first-person shooter Set in Kyrat, a breathtaking, perilous and wild region of the Himalayas Terrain spans from lush forests to the snowcapped mountains Kyrat is home to abundant wildlife Uses Dunia Engine 2 3 Far Cry 4 Set in astounding Himalayas 4 Far Cry 4 Player finds himself in the midst of a civil war 5 Far Cry 4 Absolute freedom of movement6 Dangerous and deadly wildlife Far Cry 4 7 Assassin’s Creed Unity Historical fiction action-adventure open world stealth video game Set in Paris during French Revolution Stunning full-scale open world city, made possible by the all-new game engine Unprecedented degree of freedom and control Uses AnvilNext engine 8 Assassin’s Creed Unity Set in Paris during French Revolution 9 Assassin’s Creed Unity Set in Paris during French Revolution10 Assassin’s Creed Unity Open world 11 Assassin’s Creed Unity Variety of moves12 Assassin’s Creed Unity Focus on stealth action13 Cooperative mode Assassin’s Creed Unity 14 Making PC versions look better PC offers extra performance to add extra features NVIDIA has technology that is ready to be integrated Experience gained while working on Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag Both Ubisoft and NVIDIA dedicate engineers for collaboration 15 What GameWorks can offer? We played both games and thought of what can NVIDIA GameWorks offer to make them look even better NVIDIA ShadowWorks and NVIDIA PostWorks are a great fit for both Far Cry 4 and Assassin’s Creed Unity NVIDIA HairWorks and NVIDIA Godrays are a great fit for Far Cry 4 16 The Mighty Three: HBAO+, PCSS, TXAA NVIDIA ShadowWorks Consists of different technologies to provide cinematic shadows HBAO+ Advanced Soft Shadows 18 Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion+ State of the art SSAO approach Optimal performance Scalable 19 No AO 20 Default 21 HBAO+ 22 SSBC 23 HBAO+ 24 Closer look SSBC HBAO+ 25 Tuning HBAO+ Radius: Size of HBAO kernel Bias: Hides low-tessellation artifacts Exponent: Occlusion fall-off Detail occlusion: Weight of high-frequency occlusion component Coarse occlusion: Weight of low-frequency occlusion component 26 Advanced Soft Shadows State of the art soft shadows Based on Percentage Closer Soft Shadows (PCSS) Support for cascaded shadow maps Simple, but powerful interface 27 Advanced Soft Shadows OFF 28 Advanced Soft Shadows ON 29 Advanced Soft Shadows OFF 30 Advanced Soft Shadows ON 31 Advanced Soft Shadows OFF 32 Advanced Soft Shadows ON 33 Tuning Advanced Soft Shadows Light size Maximum threshold Minimal percentage Blend percent Border percent 34 Tuning Advanced Soft Shadows Light size Maximum threshold Minimal percentage Light size Blend percent Border percent Minimal percentage Maximum threshold 35 Tuning Advanced Soft Shadows Light size Maximum threshold Minimal percentage Blend percent Border percent 36 Tuning Advanced Soft Shadows Light size Maximum threshold Minimal percentage Blend percent Border percent 37 Tuning Advanced Soft Shadows Light size Maximum threshold Minimal percentage Blend percent Border percent 38 PCSS light leaks 39 Fixing light leaks Light leaks occur when light size is too big PCSS kernel gets too wide and samples outside cascades Adjust border percent to limit the kernel If light leaks are still there, decrease light size and maximum threshold 40 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS shadows are softer at mornings and evenings and sharper at noon 9:00AM 41 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS shadows are softer at mornings and evenings and sharper at noon 10:00AM 42 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS shadows are softer at mornings and evenings and sharper at noon 11:00AM 43 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS shadows are softer at mornings and evenings and sharper at noon 12:00AM 44 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS shadows are softer at mornings and evenings and sharper at noon 1:00PM 45 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS shadows are softer at mornings and evenings and sharper at noon 2:00PM 46 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS shadows are softer at mornings and evenings and sharper at noon 3:00PM 47 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS shadows are softer at mornings and evenings and sharper at noon 4:00PM 48 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS shadows are softer at mornings and evenings and sharper at noon 5:00PM 49 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS shadows were too sharp and aliased at noon Shadows = SOFT SHADOWS50 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS missed small- scale details Shadows = SOFT SHADOWS51 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS missed small- scale details 52 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 PCSS missed small- Small features are scale details completely gone Small features start disappearing 53 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 Original shadows handle this case properly Shadows = ULTRA 54 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 Make light size depend on daytime Re-configure cascades Shadows = SOFT SHADOWS55 Advanced Soft Shadows in Far Cry 4 Make light size depend on daytime Re-configure cascades Shadows = SOFT SHADOWS56 Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TXAA) Film-style anti-aliasing technique designed specifically to reduce temporal aliasing Part of NVIDIA PostWorks family 57 No AA 58 FXAA 59 4xMSAA 60 TXAA 61 Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TXAA) TXAA requires properly generated MSAA image as input MSAA path in the engine should work correctly Use g-buffer with MSAA Make shading pass support MSAA Add MSAA support for post-processing techniques 62 Summary Five engineers were involved in integrating these features into both Assassin’s Creed Unity and Far Cry 4 One man-month per effect per title on average Experience and knowledge from past collaborations saved us a lot of time 63 Far Cry 4: Making the beasts look cute Wildlife in Far Cry 4 This is how animals of Kyrat look in real life: 65 Wildlife in Far Cry 4 This is how they look in real life: 66 Wildlife in Far Cry 4 The cutest creature in the whole game: 67 Wildlife in Far Cry 4 The cutest creature in the whole game: 68 Wildlife in Far Cry 4 The cutest creature in the whole game: 69 Wildlife in Far Cry 4 The cutest creature in the whole game: 70 NVIDIA HairWorks Enables users to simulate and render fur to provide a truly interactive game experience HairWorks Viewer A combination of run-time library and a content creation tool 71 Actual game HairWorks integration workflow Get a proof-of-concept for HairWorks to be a good fit for Far Cry 4’s content Integrate the run-time library into the engine and the level editor Author the HairWorks assets Add them to the game’s content Perform the QA pass 72 Proof of concept Perform initial experiments on assets from Far Cry 4 to see if HairWorks is a good fit for the game Experiments were performed in the HairWorks Viewer 73 Proof of concept Perform initial experiments on assets from Far Cry 4 to see if HairWorks is a good fit for the game Yak Experiments were performed in the HairWorks Viewer Yak (NV Fur) 74 Integration into the engine HairWorks run-time has a customizable rendering functionality HairWorks fur properties are stored in additional textures Far Cry 4 level editor has been modified to add new properties to support HairWorks 75 Authoring the assets HairWorks Viewer was used to create the assets that were later exported to the game 76 Authoring the assets HairWorks Viewer was used to create the assets that were later exported to the game 77 Authoring the assets Two days required to do the initial authoring of each asset 30 assets total were created 78 Preserving the silhouettes Fur is “baked” into the mesh 79 Preserving the silhouettes Fur is “baked” into the mesh 80 Preserving the silhouettes Artifacts appear if you try to both preserve the silhouette and leave the original mesh beneath the fur 81 Preserving the silhouettes A modified mesh should be rendered when HairWorks is active 82 Preserving the silhouettes A modified mesh should be rendered when HairWorks is active 83 Preserving the silhouettes A modified mesh should be rendered when HairWorks is active 84 Shading HairWorks allows you to implement your own shading model Supports both forward and deferred shading 85 Shading in Far Cry 4 In Far Cry 4, we rely on Dunia rendering mechanics to perform shading Custom material is used HairWorks parameters are stored in g-buffer Diffuse color, compressed 86 Shading in Far Cry 4 In Far Cry 4, we rely on Dunia rendering mechanics to perform shading Custom material is used HairWorks parameters are stored in g-buffer Normals 87 Shading in Far Cry 4 In Far Cry 4, we rely on Dunia rendering mechanics to perform shading Custom material is used HairWorks parameters are stored in g-buffer Specular power and scale 88 Shading in Far Cry 4 In Far Cry 4, we rely on Dunia rendering mechanics to perform shading Custom material is used HairWorks parameters are stored in g-buffer HairWorks Fur tangents 89 Shading in Far Cry 4 In Far Cry 4, we rely on Dunia rendering mechanics to perform shading Custom material is used HairWorks parameters are stored in g-buffer Result of deferred shading 90 Anti-aliasing HairWorks generates a lot of tiny fur springs Shimmering can be visible on fur 91 92 Anti-aliasing Best solution is to render HairWorks fur in a
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