GDC 2024在即 育碧讲座涵盖机器学习和Snowdrop引擎等话题

资深专家分享音效、图像和VR领域的新知和进步

2024年3月6日 – 全球游戏开发者大会（GDC2024）将于3月18至22日在旧金山莫斯康展览中心举办，育碧于日前公布了其参会详情。

20多名育碧专家将齐聚GDC现场，分享在游戏开发方面的最新突破，话题涵盖用于制作《阿凡达：潘多拉边境》的育碧自有引擎Snowdrop，以及旨在提升开发者和玩家体验的新兴机器学习技术。

与会者将有机会一窥《阿凡达：潘多拉边境》幕后音效和渲染效果的最新成果，育碧讲座将介绍游戏的音效设计创新、Snowdrop引擎所支持的光线追踪管线和高级图像技术。

在机器学习和AI领域，育碧也将带来多场讲座，分享旨在利用压缩素材来降低记忆存储要求的创新实时渲染技术，以及具备学习能力、能够模拟真人玩家的机器人，等等。拟真机器人讲座将展现机器学习和AI在改善玩家体验方面的潜力，尤其是多人游戏招募新玩家和开放世界做品控的场景。

此外，育碧专家们的话题还涉猎用户体验、叙事和策划。多款育碧游戏的幕后创作历程将公之于众，包括《彩虹六号：围攻》、《刺客信条：幻景》、《刺客信条：联结核心》VR游戏，以及《波斯王子：失落的王冠》。

“我们期待2024全球游戏开发者大会的到来！我们育碧将和整个行业一起，在这一盛会上分享激动人心的项目。我们相信，这些创新突破颇具潜力，一方面能够为开发者和玩家开辟新天地，另一方面也为娱乐行业铺下了未来发展的道路。” 统领育碧生产技术的资深副总裁Guillemette Picard表示，“我们很高兴能够借机和开发者社区进行交流，在分享我们的知识经验的同时，也从与会者的智慧财富中汲取灵感。”

所有育碧演讲信息见下方，如希望了解更多详情，请移步至GDC网站。

3月18日周一

9:30 am – 10:30 am PT

Advanced Graphics Summit: Introduction & DX12 Memory Management in Snowdrop on PC

Gauthier Viau (Graphics Programmer, Ubisoft Massive)

9:30 am – 10:30 am PT

Game Narrative Summit: The Playable Series: Writing Seasonal Narratives for Live Games

Valentina Tamer (Senior Narrative Designer, Ubisoft Paris Mobile)

9:30 am – 10:30 am PT

Machine Learning Summit: Introduction & Real-Time Neural Textures for Materials Compression

Antoine Houdard, Georges Nader (Research and Development Scientists, Ubisoft Bordeaux), and Olivier Pomarez (Director of Development, Ubisoft La Forge)

10:50 am – 11:50 am PT

Advanced Graphics Summit: Raytracing in Snowdrop: An Optimized Lighting Pipeline for Consoles

Quentin Kuenlin (Senior Rendering Programmer, Ubisoft Massive)

10:50 am – 11:50 am PT

UX Summit: Difficult Games by Data and Design

Lanie Dixon (Director of Insights, Ubisoft Montréal), Sebastian Long (Managing Director, Player Research)

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm PT

Advanced Graphics Summit: All You Can Ask!

Gauthier Viau (Graphics Programmer, Ubisoft Massive), Quentin Kuenlin (Senior Rendering Programmer, Ubisoft Massive)

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm PT

Machine Learning Summit: All You Can Ask! (Day 1)

Olivier Pomarez (Director of Development, Ubisoft La Forge), Antoine Houdard and Georges Nader (Research and Development Scientists, Ubisoft Bordeaux)

3月 19日周二

10:00 am – 6:00 pm PT

Production Workshop: An In-Depth Guide to Solving Tough, Real World Production Problems

Patrick Redding (Creative Director, Ubisoft Montréal)

2:10 pm – 2:40 pm PT

Machine Learning Summit: Taming the Beast: Leveraging Machine Learning to Curb the Cost of Continuous Integration

Sarra Habchi (R&D Scientist, Ubisoft Montréal)

4:10 pm – 5:10 pm PT

Technical Artist Summit: Using Generative AI as a Tool for Tech Artists

Daniel Ocean (Associate TechArt Director, Ubisoft San Francisco)

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm PT

AI Summit: Building ML Bots at Ubisoft la Forge: From Research to Production

Gabriel Robert (Lead R&D Developer, Ubisoft Montréal)

5:40 pm – 6:40 pm PT

Machine Learning Summit: Panel: All You Can Ask! (Day 2)

 Sarra Habchi (R&D Scientist, Ubisoft Montréal)

3月20日周三

10:30 am – 11:30 am PT

High Performance Rendering in Snowdrop Using AMD Fidelityfx Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) (Presented by AMD)

Hampus Siversson (Associate Lead Engine Programmer, Ubisoft Massive)

11:30 am – 12:00 pm PT

Learnings From Working With Voice Actors Remotely

Adam Ritchie (Senior Voice Designer, Ubisoft Massive)

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm PT

Making Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR Comfortable and Accessible

Olivier Palmieri (Game Director, Ubisoft Montréal)

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm PT

Obstacle Traversal in the Organic World of Pandora

Joel Nillson (Senior Gameplay Programmer, Ubisoft Massive)

3月21日周四

11:30 am – 12:30 pm PT

Everything Is Connected – Ambient Sound in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

David Osternacher (Lead Audio Designer, Ubisoft Massive), Alex Riviere (Audio Director, Ubisoft Massive)

11:30 am – 12:30 pm PT

Teaching Complex Games: Onboarding Redesign for Rainbow Six Siege

Marc Ballart Germà (UX Designer, Ubisoft Barcelona)

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm PT

Ray Tracing in Snowdrop: Scene Representation and Custom BVH

Oleksandr Koshlo (Render Architect, Ubisoft Massive)

3月22日周五

10:00 am – 11:00 am PT

Between Legacy and Modernity: Creating an Homage Game to the 15-Year-Old Assassin’s Creed Franchise

Fabian Salomon (Lead Producer, Ubisoft Bordeaux), Stéphane Boudon (Creative Director, Ubisoft Bordeaux)

10:00 am – 11:00 am PT

The Audio of XDefiant

Nicholas Bonardi (Audio Director, Ubisoft San Francisco), Brian DiDomenico (Lead Audio Designer, Ubisoft San Francisco)

10:00 am – 11:00 am PT

Upgrading the Snowdrop Engine for the Massive World of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Joshua Simmons (Senior Programmer, Ubisoft Massive) 

10:00 am – 11:00 am PT

Finding Space for Sound: Acoustics in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Robert Bantin (Snowdrop Audio Architect, Ubisoft Massive)

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