This I3D 2010 paper is a result of collaborative research with Carsten Dachsbacher. The LPV technique was extended to support secondary occlusion and multiple bounces. The propagation scheme is improved and compared to similar Discrete Ordinate Methods. Also this paper describes many additional application and implementation details.

Intel organized the "Go parallel" day at the TUM (Technical University Munich). The purpose of this presentation was to motivate the attendees for multi core development. It showcases multiple future applications where single threaded algorithms do not deliver enough performance.

This presentation about audio development explains how Sound Designers can guarantee by using modern tools, streamlined production pipelines, and middleware, to control the last step in the full implementation process. Only then the audio can end up in the final game, which got initially designed.

Software construction is an exercise in managing complexity, more so with the spiralling complexity required by modern games. Automated Testing is an industry proven methodology to deliver more reliable complex software, with a fighting chance to do it on time and on budget. And having fun doing so. Crytek is spearheading this idea in the game industry with its flagship title, and now sharing the experience with you: best practices, potential pitfalls, To-Do’s and No-No’s will be shown with real examples of unit testing game code using its proprietary testing framework and tools. Functional Testing and acceptance testing will also be touched on as a viable way of describing and checking game design requirements. And take automated testing to the next level.

This is a SIGGRAPH 2009 talk from "Advanced Real-time Rendering Course" about new ligting technique in CryEngine 3. The new technique called "Light Propagation Volumes" is used for Global Illumination and Massive Lighting, which significantly improves the lighting quality. The concept and its implementation are explained in the paper. Slides from the talk with talk notes as well as the video are provided.

In CryEngine 3 the renderer is now even more powerful because we added deferred lighting as new engine features. We deliberately decided not to go for a classic deferred shading approach. This has implications on content generation, performance characteristics and implementation. In this presentation we are sharing our experience.

At the Audio Boot Camp of GDC2009 Tomas was asked to join a session with Jason Page (Audio Manager R&D SONY) about technical audio development. In the presentation Tomas explains 10 rules he derived from his daily work, which can lead to a safe and risk free production in the field of Audio.