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About this paper
Dzmitry Malyshau
This research conducts a controlled comparison of six real-time rendering techniques for complex, multi-layer, and dynamically editable game terrain, utilizing WebGPU. It evaluates their visual quality, frame rate performance, memory usage, and responsiveness to local edits, identifying trade-offs specific to game environments with features like caves and destructible surfaces.
Key insights
- Rendering performance and visual quality (especially coverage and coherence) vary significantly across methods, particularly at challenging eye-level horizons and grazing angles, where point scattering (Scattered) showed coverage loss and slicing (Sliced) introduced banding.
- The efficiency of mesh simplification (TIN reduction ratio) for multi-layer terrain is primarily dictated by the presence of structural discontinuities (e.g., single/double-level boundaries), rather than just the surface roughness of individual layers.
- WebGPU and WGSL provide a viable and portable platform for implementing demanding real-time graphics, offering consistent visual output and comparable performance across diverse native graphics backends and hardware.
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