Mortal Kombat 11: high fidelity cached simulations in real-time

ABSTRACT

Mortal Kombat 11 introduces an Alembic-based asset pipeline that enables artists to leverage new workflows previously unattainable in real-time games. Blood and gore are the cornerstone of the franchise, and the art direction for our Fatalities and Fatal Blows focuses on close-up, high-fidelity, slow-motion shots showing extreme amounts of blood, which traditional sprite particles would struggle to achieve.

References

1. Christopher Evans, Lars Martinsson, and Sascha Herfort. 2014. Building an empire: asset production in Ryse. ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Courses.
2. Simon Green. 2008. Particle-based Fluid Simulation. http://developer.download.nvidia.com/presentations/2008/GDC/GDC08_ParticleFluids.pdf.
3. Jihun Yu and Greg Turk. 2013. Reconstructing surfaces of particle-based fluids using anisotropic kernels. ACM Transactions on Graphics 32, 5 (Jan. 2013).

Index Terms

• Computing methodologies

  • Computer graphics

    • Rendering