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EA Sports F1 25: Path Tracing at 200mph

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Tom Hammersley

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EA Sports F1 25: Path Tracing at 200mph is a recorded talk by Tom Hammersley, presented at GDC Vault.

GDC Vault session by Tom Hammersley (EA Codemasters) on shipping a path tracer for EA Sports F1 25's Ultra Max mode on the EGO racing engine in about 12 months. Covers integrating path tracing without rewriting a decade of art assets, plus optimizations and lessons from a yearly-cycle racing title. Aimed at engineers adding real-time path tracing to existing game engines. How do you deliver the pinnacle of lighting technologies to a racing game.

It is aimed at advanced graphics programmers and matches the audience implied by Tom Hammersley's other work.

The session is hosted on GDC Vault as a conference recording with slides and speaker audio.

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