Reflections have always been an important topic in video game graphics, given how much they add to the realism of a scene and how expensive they tend to be in terms of computations, when aiming for quality. Mobile virtual reality pushes both…
Everyone knows we in the Arm Mali team design graphics, video and display processors, targeting the fine line between high quality, immersive gaming and sufficient efficiency that you can still play for hours. If you’ve seen the report we released…
In a previous blog we talked about running Mali Graphics Debugger on a non-rooted device. In this blog we will focus on how you can add support for Mali Graphics Debugger, on a non-rooted device, to your Unreal Engine application. The plan we are going…
With Unreal Engine 4.15, Epic introduced the ability to directly enable profiling on mobile devices from the editor. In a previous blog article, we discussed how to enable this feature on pre 4.15 engine versions, the following content applies to 4.15…
I've been profiling a 3D scene on the Samsung Galaxy S7 and I've noticed that glDrawElements and glDrawArrays CPU time is a lot larger compared to Adreno and PowerVR GPUs.
For some context, in an effort to improve performance on Mali devices, I…
Today we see a growing trend of different technologies previously restricted to one field being used across different sectors, dissolving traditional industry boundaries. Game creation technologies are no different.
An increasing number of sectors outside…
You have probably all seen the announcements at GDC 2015 (going on right now). The big engine guys are battling it out for the attentions of developers large and small. Epic Games are giving away Unreal Engine 4 for free and Unity Technologies have released…
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The Seastack Bay showcase was built in Unreal Engine 4 with Enlighten for the PC and PS4. This was a collaborative project between Geomerics, an Arm company, and Ninja Theory, the developer of Hellblade, who provided environment, audio and character assets…
We recently looked at ways in which we could improve our existing Enlighten reflections solution in order to raise visual quality without sacrificing performance or ease of integration. Our solution, which we delivered…