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The Asset pipeline for Just Cause 2: Lessons learned
Speaker: Mathias Westerdahl (System Architect - Tools, Avalanche Studios)
Date/Time: Thursday (March 11, 2010) 3:00pm — 4:00pm
Location (room): Room 131, North Hall
Track: Programming
Secondary Track: Programming
Format: 60-minute Lecture
Experience Level: Intermediate

Session Description
This session presents an overview of the asset conditioning pipeline used in Just Cause 2. We describe the journey of analyzing our pipeline requirements and designing a system that would remove the key bottlenecks, provide a robust environment and increase throughput. We discuss the process of identifying key underlying systems that will allow streamlining of the pipeline. Among these systems are a platform- and language- independent data management layer, an asset dependency resolver and compiler scripting framework using Python. We also discuss a system for handling deployment of new compilers in a controlled way.

We discuss the process of rebuilding the existing compiler pipeline based on this new foundation. We reveal the immediate benefits in terms of turn-around time but also mention a number of other positive side-effects of the pipeline work, including maintainability, robustness, improved levels of feedback and the ability to monitor pipeline statistics. Attendees should leave with a picture both of the resulting pipeline and insight into the decision and design process throughout the development.

Intended Audience
This talk is aimed towards programmers that, in one way or another, come in contact with the content creation pipeline. A good understanding of the asset production workflow is recommended.

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