Decoding Decima: A Technical Deep Dive into Guerrilla’s Pipeline

Опубликовано: 24 Июнь 2026
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The Decima Engine is a fascinating case of adaptation.
From working on linear, tight corridor games to vast Open-Worlds, the engineers behind the evolution of this Engine have worked miracles.

They have achieved amazing feats, like very stable performance across all platforms while delivering some of the best natural environments in the game industry.

This video examines the history, the data streaming architecture, how the Engine manages its' memory budget, the custom Tools that had to be implemented to work on massive games, how their visual scripting system works, its' state of the art Nubis system that changed the ways to make realistic clouds and skies in games and much more!

The video will also reveal what is known as Decima's Secret Weapon!

Whether you're an Environment Artist, Tech Artist, game developer, or student learning real-time graphics, or a curious gamer, there’s a lot to learn from this.

📌Timestamps
0:00 Intro
2:23 Brief History
4:19 Visibility Engine
10:36 Scaling Assets
15:29 Channels' Sponsor
15:59 Nodes to Native Code
17:38 Lighting & Fog
23:05 Nubis
32:28 Vegetation
37:34 Course promotion
38:20 Micro-Topology & Photogrammetry
39:43 Secret Weapons

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Visibility in Horizon Zero Dawn
https://www.guerrilla-games.com/media...

Creating a Tools Pipeline for Horizon Zero Dawn
https://d3d3g8mu99pzk9.cloudfront.net...

Decima's Visual Programming for every Discipline
https://d3d3g8mu99pzk9.cloudfront.net...

Advances in Lighting and AA
https://advances.realtimerendering.co...

Nubis Methods to model and render immersive real-time voxel-based clouds
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Between Tech and Art: The Vegetation of Horizon Zero Dawn
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