Paul Mannering

   Areas worked on:

• Unreal Editor Features implemented:
• Draw Calls Visualizer
• Pixel Overdraw Visualizer
• X-Ray Visualizer
• Vertex Density Visualizer
• Optimisation Viewmodes working in VR Previewer
• GPU Features implemented:
• Toon Shaded Lighting
• Rim Lighting
• Wall burning using vertex painting
• Dynamic Blob Shadows for Ghosts
• Vertex Height Fog
• Animated Fog Volumes
• Negative Dynamic Lighting
• Greyscale Post Processing Effect
• Colored Vignette Post Processing Effect
• Masked Materials Anti-Aliasing solution using Alpha-to-Coverage
• Quest 2 GPU Features implemented:
• Support for 4 per-vertex dynamic lights
• Dynamic Blob Shadows for Player Avatars Feet
• Dynamic Resolution configuration
• Application SpaceWarp configuration
• Application SpaceWarp render pass writing motion vectors for transparency materials
• Optimisation Viewmodes working in Quest package builds
• CPU Optimisations:
• Multithreaded vertex painting using async tasks
• Draw Call Reductions
• Pooling Ghosts / Projectiles / Niagara VFX
• Lighting Manager cost vs quality trade offs + transition fades
• Bink 2 video profiling + working out ideal video encoding settings for Quest 2
• Memory Usage Optimisations:
• Blueprint dependencies reductions
• World / Character / Weapon textures
• UMG Widget UI's
• Mesh LOD Configuration
• PSVR2 port
• PS5 / PSVR2 development consultation for the nDreams game development team
• Quest 2 development consultation for the nDreams game development team
• Application SpaceWarp development consultation for the nDreams game development team
• Unreal Engine 4 development consultation for the nDreams game development team
• Optimising GPU / CPU / Memory Usage development consultation for the nDreams game development team
• Automation of Level Merge / Tessellation / LOD'ing / Light Bake on TeamCity Build Machines development consultation for the nDreams technical art development team

   Areas worked on:

• GPU Optimisations:
• Implemented Black Outline Post Processing Effect into Unreal Engine 4 Core Renderer (Drawn before alpha, height and volumetric fog support, async compute)
• Implemented Dynamic Resolution for PSVR
• Implemented Mask-Based Foveated Rendering
• Unreal Volumetric Fog added foveated rendering support (halved render time)
• Integrated AMD Fidelity Fx CAS (Contrast Adaptive Sharpening)
• Texture Streaming improvements
• Texture Quality improvements
• Unreal scalability configuration setup for PS4 Standard, PS4 Pro, and PS5
• CPU Optimisations:
• Draw Call Reductions
• Pooled Particle Systems
• Decal Bullet Holes
• Dynamic Instancing for Weapon Bullets
• Recorded optimal pak file loading order
• PS5 Enhancements:
• Unreal Engine 4 modification for PS5 detection and support
• 90fps Support
• Implemented TSCMAA (Temporally Stable Conservative Morphological Anti-Aliasing)
• PS4 / PSVR development consultation for the nDreams game development team
• PS5 development consultation for the nDreams game development team
• Sony TRC Support
• Unreal Engine 4 development consultation for the nDreams game development team
• Optimising GPU / CPU / Memory Usage development consultation for the nDreams game development team

   Areas worked on:

• Unity Memory Optimisation for iOS and Android
• Vulkan video player port (Unity Native Plug-in)
• 360 degree video player
• Layered video technology
• GPU rendering performance review + suggested optimised settings
• Prototyping future graphics features

   Areas worked on:

• Quest port
• GPU Optimisations:
• Reduced draw calls by instancing / merging static meshes (3 Mission levels + Frontend Canteen + Shooting Gallery)
• Material shader cost reductions for mobile class GPU
• UMG render target textures only redrawing when there are changes
• Configured mesh LOD's
• Configured particle system LOD's
• CPU Optimisations:
• Reduced tick intervals
• Distance to camera scaling
• Blueprint nativization
• Blueprint optimisations
• Profiling and fixing single frame spikes
• Upgraded to Unreal 4.24 Oculus Branch
• Vulkan Renderer build fixes
• Vulkan PSO Cache setup and recording

   Areas worked on:

• Japanese port of Zumba Burn it Up! for Sega Publishing
• Localisation for Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
• Updated in-game logos and credits
• Bug fixes

   Areas worked on:

• Nintendo Switch console port
• Xbox One console port
• PS4 console port
• Graphics settings optimised for all console platforms (Switch, Xbox One, Xbox One X, PS4, PS4 Pro)
• Video playback for cutscenes + Wwise audio syncing + wrote video encoding scripts (all platforms)
• Wwise audio integration
• Build Farm setup and maintenance (TeamCity)
• Certification / compliance (Lotcheck, XR, TRC)

   Areas worked on:

• Lead Programmer
• Unreal Engine 4 game programming
• Unreal Engine 4 UMG frontend and OSD
• Video playback for in-game layered video technology
• Video encoding scripts
• Video render farm setup and maintenance
• Wwise audio integration
• Build Farm setup and maintenance (TeamCity)
• Nintendo Switch Lotcheck certification / compliance

   Areas worked on:

• Lead Programmer
• Hologram Shader Effects
• Build Machine Maintenance (Jenkins)
• PS3 memory optimisations
• PS4 SDK Update
• PS3 SDK Update
• Xbox One XDK update
• PS4 TRC Compliance
• PS3 TRC Compliance
• Xbox One XR Compliance
• Xbox 360 TCR Compliance

   Areas worked on:

• Xbox One port
• Windows PC x64 DirectX 11 port
• Steamworks integration (Achievements, Rich Presence, Profiles, Cloud Saves)
• Steamworks Networking (Lobbies, Game Server) for online multiplayer
• Visual Studio code build (Original 2009 game used jam)

   Areas worked on:

• Xbox One port
• Windows PC x64 DirectX 11 port
• Steamworks integration (Achievements, Rich Presence, Profiles, Cloud Saves)
• Steamworks Networking (Lobbies, Game Server) for online multiplayer
• Visual Studio code build (Original 2006 game used makefiles)
• Multi-threading bug fixes (Original 2006 PC game was designed for single core CPU's only)

   Areas worked on:

• Build Machine Maintenance (CruiseControl.NET)
• Added Health Warning Screen
• Updated Character and Course names with Chinese translations
• Re-exported Chinese fonts to support newly used characters
• Built and prepared TU for submission

   Areas worked on:

• Xbox One port

   Areas worked on:

• PS4 Game Engine Port
• Auto attack graphics programming
• PS4 TRC Compliance
• PS3 TRC Compliance
• Xbox One XR Compliance
• Xbox 360 TCR Compliance

   Areas worked on:

• Lead Programmer
• 60fps optimisations (All platforms)
• Audio Programming (Microphones, Wwise Middleware Integration, iZotope Middleware Integration, Auto-Tune Pitch Correction)
• PS3 TRC Compliance
• Xbox 360 TCR Compliance
• WiiU LOTCHECK Compliance
• Wii LOTCHECK Compliance

   Areas worked on:

• Xbox One Lead Programmer
• Xbox One Game Engine Port
• Xbox One Kinect Integration
• Xbox One Stream Install
• Xbox One Load/Save (Conected Storage)
• Xbox One User Management
• Xbox One Leaderboards
• Xbox One XR Compliance
• Xbox 360 Load/Save
• Xbox 360 TCR Compliance
• Wii LOTCHECK Compliance
• Layered Video Technology (Xbox One, WiiU)
• Automated Video Build Tools (Xbox One, Xbox 360, WiiU)
• Data Build Tools + GUI

   Areas worked on:

• Xbox 360 Load/Save
• Xbox 360 TCR Compliance
• Wii LOTCHECK Compliance
• Automated Video Build Tools (Xbox 360)
• Data Build Tools + GUI

   Areas worked on:

• Kinect live feed post processing
• Progress tracker line graph drawing
• Data build GUI tools
• Data make batch files
• Video subtitle system

   Areas worked on:

• Load/Save + TCR compliance
• Xbox user profile management (sign in/out and guest profiles)
• Frontend and world management
• Screen Carousels
• Kinect screen navigation
• Progress Tracker and statistics tracking
• Video Playback
• Online features (Class finder and news)
• Facebook message posting

   Areas worked on:

• Load/Save + LOTCHECK compliance
• CPU optimisation
• Frontend and world management
• Screen Carousels
• Progress Tracker and statistics tracking
• Awards/Achievements
• Video Playback
• C++ code build system makefiles
• Data build makefiles and BASH scripts

   Areas worked on:

• Super Sample Anti-aliasing
• GPU optimisation
• CPU optimisation
• Threaded loading
• Story cutscene system
• Load/Save + LOTCHECK compliance

   Areas worked on:

• Frontend screens and flow
• Messagebox system
• TRC compliance
• Multiplier
• In-game level camera
• Screen scaling feature

   Areas worked on:

• 3D graphics optimisation work
• Game performance settings tweaks
• Asset standardisation work
• Game written in Uniity 3D Pro

   Areas worked on:

• Steam integration (Installer and achievements)
• Added "Valve, Portal (Still Alive)" level
• Improved frontend and transitions over Xbox 360 version
• Added screen size, window/fullscreen, lost/regain device functionality
• Added gamma correction
• Game was programmed in C# and XNA 3

   Areas worked on:

• Wii Optimisation (2 player in-game running at 60fps)
• Video build makefiles and BASH scripts
• PlayStation 2 port

   Areas worked on:

• Threaded video decode on Wii and PlayStation 2
• Data build makefile and BASH scripts
• Improved song transcription tools
• High score screen
• Name entry screen
• Score summary screen
• Song statistic tracking
• Optimisation on Wii and PlayStation 2
• TRC compatibility on Wii and PlayStation 2

   Areas worked on:

• Frontend menus and transitions
• Song selection screen
• Song transcription tools
• Cross platform threading library
• Video Players (Wii, PS2, PC, Xbox 360)
• Microphone sound capture and playback (PC)
• Windows PC port

   Areas worked on:

• Frontend menus and transitions
• Song selection screen
• Song transcription tools
• Cross platform threading library
• Video Players (Wii, PS2, PC, Xbox 360)
• Microphone sound capture and playback (PC)
• Windows PC port

   Areas worked on:

• All C++ game code
• lua game scripting
• HLSL graphics shaders
• Car physics
• User interface design
• Car modding system
• Car polygon modelling
• Track polygon modelling
• Website HTML code
• More details about Boy Racer can be found here