George Bolba

@gikster.bsky.social

- 3rd Year Graphics Programmer @BUas - Blog/Portfolio: gikster.dev - Currently working on my personal Vulkan renderer - Massive Star Wars nerd - 21, he/him - From 🇷🇴

Been working on voxel ray-tracing again lately, this time using a BVH2 TLAS and SVT64 (64tree) BLAS(s). The heat gradient in the video shows the step count from 0 to 128. This scene contains 256 voxel dragons, each model is 256^3 voxels :)

Started working on a Vulkan renderer last November but I didn't have much time to work on it due to school. I made good progress lately so I thought I'd share my progress on here since I've been "absent" for a while. I got Sponza running at ~3ms @1080p. 1 Dir Light and IBL, nothing too fancy 😄

Sponza running at ~3ms @1080p with 1 Directional Light and IBL

Yesterday marked the final release of our game, Nakon. It runs on a custom engine, built for PS5 and Windows 10/11. I mainly worked on the rendering, so stuff like Cel Shading, Lighting, FXAA, PS5 backend, Optimizations and much more. You can download the game for yourself here: buas.itch.io/nakon

Nakon by Breda University of Applied Sciences, BuasJoey, tBoons, Allen Philip, Tycro Games, J111M, Gikster007, Mika Halbauer, alexstn, PappaNiels, desytsv, Viktor231407, Des

An arcade FPS game, made in a custom engine - Student Project

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Yesterday marked the final release of our game, Nakon. It runs on a custom engine, built for PS5 and Windows 10/11. I mainly worked on the rendering, so stuff like Cel Shading, Lighting, FXAA, PS5 backend, Optimizations and much more. You can download the game for yourself here: buas.itch.io/nakon

Nakon by Breda University of Applied Sciences, BuasJoey, tBoons, Allen Philip, Tycro Games, J111M, Gikster007, Mika Halbauer, alexstn, PappaNiels, desytsv, Viktor231407, Des

An arcade FPS game, made in a custom engine - Student Project

buas.itch.io

Year 1 / Block B completed! Our students worked 8 weeks on a 3D Metal Gear clone, for PC and Raspberry Pi, with their own custom C++ OpenGL ES engine. Video: Work by Jack Tollenaar. Bullet Physics, skeletal animation, navmeshes, reflection probes and lots more. Amazing work.

Foam has been added and that concludes the programming work for this project, as this is the last week. There is a chance that I can take this project over into the next one, where together with a bunch of other Programmers we will develop a specific genre game engine. Looking forward to it 😁

A small update on my Water Rendering journey. I've been busy with shading and researching how I can go from Oceans to Rivers with the integration of flow maps. I don't think I will have enough time to move to Rivers due to time constraints for the project, so I will stick to Oceans for now :P

Hey there bsky! I'm looking for an internship in graphics/engine programming anywhere in the world (I'm willing to relocate). If you happen to know any open positions or if you work at a company that is taking interns, feel free to contact me! Portfolio ⬇️

I've been silent for a while, mainly because I didn't have anything interesting to show. I was busy the last couple of days implementing the Tessendorf Model for Ocean Rendering. Massive thanks to @acerola.gg for his videos which helped me a lot! Here's a video of my implementation:

The recorded presentations from GPC 2024 just dropped on the official GPC YouTube channel! I can highly recommend anyone interested in graphics to check them out. I can't wait to go back on some of these :) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Graphics Programming Conference 2024 - YouTube

The Graphics Programming Conference is a three day event in November. We have keynotes from industry experts, presentations, and “masterclass” workshops with...

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I've been using Slang these past few days for a new project I've started working on. Currently working on the rasterization pipeline, I have a cube so far :) Slang has been really nice so far; using the User Guide on their website as well as the vk_mini_samples repo. github.com/nvpro-sample...