Publications – Page 3 – Deep Silver Volition

Inferred Lighting

3 August 2009

Lecture by Scott Kircher and Alan Lawrence at SIGGRAPH 2009. This paper presents a three phase pipeline for real-time rendering that provides fast dynamic light calculations while enabling greater material flexibility than deferred shading. This method, called inferred lighting, allows lighting calculations to occur at a significantly lower…

“Breathing Life into an Open World”

29 March 2009

Lecture by Scott Phillips at GDC 2009. Examine the history of populating open worlds and a detailed description and post-mortem of the LIFE system developed by Volition for SAINTS ROW 2. Attendees will learn about the inspiration, organization, methodology, successes and failures of the LIFE system used to add…

“Blowing Up the Outside World: Destruction Done the Next Gen Way”

23 March 2009

Lecture by Jeff Hanna and Eric Arnold at GDC 2009. This session presents an in-depth look at the tools and technologies used to make a truly destructible world for RED FACTION: GUERRILLA. The presenters will share the lessons they learned and the problems they had to overcome in…

“Python for Technical Artists”

19 March 2008

Lecture by Adam Pletcher at GDC 2008. Technical Artists must constantly expand their skillsets to efficiently meet new challenges. Python is an interpreted scripting language uniquely suited to meet the increasing demands of technical art. Python provides intuitive, fast solutions for many issues facing today’s content creators. This lecture…

“Internal & Outsourcer Management Of Tools & Pipelines”

1 March 2008

Lecture by Brendan Hanna Holloway and Adam Pletcher at GDC 2008. The amount and variety of custom tools and pipelines is skyrocketing. How can a game studio efficiently deploy, update and manage them all? Outsourcers using those pipelines complicates things even further. The Saints Row project peaked at…

“Tech-Art Driven Shader Pipelines in 3DSMax”

5 March 2007

Lecture by Raymond Stewart at GDC 2007. High level shader development languages have drastically altered the role of the art department in defining the final appearance of next-gen games. With this new level of control comes new layers of complexity in process, tool development, and asset production. Explore the…

“The Creation of Saints Row’s Open World Cityscape: Stilwater”

5 March 2007

Lecture by Jason Hayes and Kenny Thompson at GDC 2007. As games continue to evolve so does gameplay. With the incredible success of open world sandbox games, Saints Row is one of many that will surely follow. Within this lecture we walk through the creation process of Saints Row’s…

“Saints Row Scheduler”

5 March 2007

Lecture by Randall Turner at GDC 2007. Making optimal use of all available CPU resources on a next generation platform can be challenging. This treatment of the approach taken by the Saints Row team illustrates some of the techniques appropriate to a homogeneous multiprocessing environment, where individual processing elements…

“Strategies & Techniques for Real-Time Shaders”

1 January 2005

Master Class by Neil Hazzard (Autodesk) and Adam Pletcher at GDC 2005. This two hour master class is focused on best work practices when building and editing real-time shaders using 3ds max 7 software. Shaders are tackled from the perspective of the artist as well as the programmer. Download:…

“Art Creation for a PlayStation 2 Launch Title – The Ups and Downs of Summoner”

1 January 2001

Lecture by Adam Pletcher at GDC 2001. A post-mortem style rundown of the various art-related challenges we faced on the Playstation 2 RPG title Summoner. Download: Rough Transcript (.zip – 15 KB)…

Page 3 of 3

Remembering Lost Devs

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

As we approach the release of Saints Row, we here at Volition would like to honor those we’ve lost during development. Remembering Mi...

Rendering Technology in Agents of Mayhem

Monday, March 26, 2018

This talk, presented at GDC 2018, covers some of the main rendering technologies used on Volition’s ‘Agents of Mayhem’. The prese...

Spline Based Procedural Modeling in “Agents of Mayhem”

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Presented at GDC 2018 Volition has created a new and powerful spline-based modeling system. This system has enabled their developers to build a cit...

Volition sponsors the GAAM 2014 Charity Auction

Monday, August 18, 2014

Volition is proud to have sponsored the 2014 GAAM Summer Invitational Charity Auction last month which raised over $3000 for First Coast No More Ho...

Color Management 101

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Lecture by Alex Mejia Alex Mejia, Senior Video Editor and Producer at Volition, gives an introductory overview about color management geared toward...

Physics of Fun

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Lecture by Dave Bianchi at GDC 2014. One designer, 90+ vehicles, and only 6 months to go: that was the scenario David Bianchi, Designer at Volition...