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Illuminating Roco's Legacy: Scalable Global Illumination from Theory to Practice

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This session demonstrates how, with advanced global illumination technologies as the foundation, and through close collaboration between art and technical teams the team reimagines the classic browser game Roco Kingdom as a 64-square-kilometer open-world cross-platform experience. While retaining the original art style, developers leverage technological innovations to overcome key limitations in memory, bandwidth, and performance. This enables delivery of dynamic day-night lighting effects across multiple platforms and devices, while maintaining visual consistency as much as possible.In addition, this presentation will focus on sharing the various technical challenges encountered during the implementation of global illumination in an open-world, cross-platform game along with the team's corresponding solutions, strategies, and insights.

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