AMD Demo - Froblins is an impressive demo that showcases the power of the ATI Radeon HD 4800 GPU series. It allows you to run graphics card tests and check their performance, as well as create virtual environments with multiple computer-generated creatures. The complex shader controls for each character are particularly impressive and make it easy to adjust the look and feel of each character. Overall, AMD Demo - Froblins is a great way to show off the power of the ATI Radeon HD 4800 GPU series.
The Froblins demo is designed to showcase many of the new techniques for character-centric entertainment made possible by the massively parallel compute available on the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 GPU series. In a large-scale environment with thousands of highly detailed, intelligent characters, the Froblins (frog goblins), are concurrently simulated, animated and rendered entirely on the GPU. The individual character logic for each froblin creature is controlled via a complex shader – 3200 shader instructions for each froblin. There is being utilized the latest functionality available with the DirectX® 10.1 API, hardware tessellation, high fidelity rendering with 4X MSAA settings, at HD resolution with gamma-correct rendering, full HDR FP16 pipeline and advanced post-processing effects.
In this interactive environment, thousands of animated, intelligent characters are rendered from a variety of viewpoints ranging from extreme close-ups to far away “bird’s eye” views of the entire system (over three thousands characters at the same time). The demo combines state-of-the-art parallel artificial intelligence computation for dynamic pathfinding and local avoidance on the GPU, massive crowd rendering with LOD management with high-end rendering capabilities such as GPU tessellation for high-quality close-ups and stable performance, terrain system, cascaded shadows for large-range environments, and an advanced global illumination system.
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