James McLaren

Bearded Code Monkey.
Currently helping make Decima tick at Guerrilla Games.
Previously Engine Tech Wizard at Q-Games. My opinions are my own.

[James McLaren @selfresonating]

Ok, the slides from my GDC presentation are now up. Enjoy!

http://t.co/T72jzn9WDx

[John Hable @FilmicWorlds]

New Post: Adaptive Compute Tessellation. Taking the tess pattern from the previous post and turning it into a WebGPU demo.
https://t.co/5RyAtHCsRQ

[John Hable @FilmicWorlds]

New Post: Triangle Tessellation with Clamped Parallelograms. The key idea is to use float tess factors like Dx11 tessellation but replace the pattern to be straighter and more stable. Also includes an MIT licensed web viewer for reference.
https://t.co/7zPNcJDGQY

[Dylan Makes Games @dylancuthbert]

BitSummit, one of the largest indie-games-only shows in the world is in two weeks, and is bigger and better than ever, who is coming?

[Horizon Hunters Gathering @playhorizonhg]

Hunters, rally up!
Be among the first to experience Horizon Hunters Gathering by joining our upcoming playtest at the end of February.

👉 Sign up now through the PlayStation Beta Program on both PC and PS: https://t.co/vIcoGz284R

[James McLaren @selfresonating]

We announced a new game. Take a look!

[Horizon Hunters Gathering @playhorizonhg]

Forge your legacy in Horizon Hunters Gathering – a tactical co-op action game that lets up to three players team up as heroic Hunters to protect a world under threat from deadly machines. Coming to PS5 and PC.

https://t.co/vsTeJKV0LE

#HorizonHuntersGathering #RallyForTheHunt

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Carpenter Giliam de Carpentier has built himself a walking table that is able to deliver drinks right to him. He has called it 'Carpentopod'.

[📹 decarpentier_nl]

[Kostas Anagnostou @KostasAAA]

Presentations slides from Graphics Programming Conference 2025 are now online https://t.co/edp3KdmtWi

[Naty Hoffman @renderwonk]

Happy New Years! 2026 is made happier by the ACM finally transitioning (at long last) to Open Access: https://t.co/5bZG8eLV5a

[Christoph Peters @MomentsInCG]

Happy New Year 🎆!
All papers on the ACM digital library (https://t.co/MNa6wBfSY5) are free to download now 🎉. No more paywalls. That includes most of my publications (which were already available at https://t.co/psPGOXe70m).

[James McLaren @selfresonating]

This is some good solid advice. Read and internalise.

[Kostas Anagnostou @KostasAAA]

Good read: "GPU Cache Hierarchy: Understanding L1, L2, and VRAM" https://t.co/8FCGSRhLl9

[Dylan Makes Games @dylancuthbert]

Join the huge influx of new players this winter season and build some decorations for your town!

[Jorrit Rouwe @jrouwe]

JoltPhysics.js v1.0.0 is out https://t.co/NUwK66fMch

[Xor @XorDev]

The inventor of Radiance Cascades is working on a sparse world-space implementation. Awesome to see his developments:
https://t.co/bqu4L23by0

[James McLaren @selfresonating]

@dylancuthbert Wow, looks like a flying saucer above it :-)

[Alexandre Morgand @Almorgand]

"Content-Aware Texturing for Gaussian Splatting"

TL;DR: Texturing instead of millions of Gaussians for fine details; fixed texel size

[James McLaren @selfresonating]

@dylancuthbert Yes you can!

[Dylan Makes Games @dylancuthbert]

The Tomorrow Children is ridiculously cheap in the Black Friday sale - if you have a PS5 (or PS4) go grab it for less than the price of a decent cup of coffee! Games that use fully custom 3d engines need to be supported! (please)

[James McLaren @selfresonating]

@dylancuthbert @guitio2002 @lisyarus Ah, cool. Yeah, I'd seen that it had an SDF based solution. But I hadn't realised that it had a cone traced one too. Neat :-)

[James McLaren @selfresonating]

@guitio2002 @lisyarus Yeah, but if you have some world space probes as back up then they can also be used to guide your sampling in the case of disocclusion. It's not as good a guide as whatever you'd accumulate on the surface, but hopefully it's already converged to something useful.

[Christoph Peters @MomentsInCG]

My second blog post on spectral rendering is out. This one explains how to use wavelength importance sampling to minimize color noise while limiting the overhead to 0.3 ms and how to make BRDFs spectral.
https://t.co/rgYGWdegwG