Neural Shading Course: Part 5 - How to Make Your Neural Shader Learn @NVIDIAGameDeveloper

Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

In this video, you'll get a hands-on look at how to learn a real-world neural shader, including practical fixes for small neural models: better output activations, leaky ReLU in hidden layers, positional/frequency encodings, and input engineering to boost quality without more parameters.

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