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Rendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching

Graphics Programming Conference · talk · Watch on YouTube

Computer graphics & renderingGame programming & engines

What it is

A Graphics Programming Conference talk on how the game Tiny Glade renders meadows, trees and player-built castles. It covers real-time global illumination, tilt-shift depth of field, stable shadows with continuous time of day, ray marching and GPU-driven rendering on old hardware.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as a talk full of rendering tricks, and as an example of what a small team can do with custom tech.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “There’s a recent tech talk about it which is full of wizardry”

    Tech talk on Tiny Glade full of rendering wizardry.

    MattRix, 2025-01 · Recommendation · in “VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code (2020)”

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Topics: ray marching, global illumination, tiny glade, gpu-driven rendering, game engines

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