Songs of Silence is a cross-platform strategy game that’s known for its art-nouveau style. It features a range of graphics features, from classic Fog of War to the corrupting "Silence," and dynamic grass deformation. In this talk, I’ll walk you through the technical creation of these effects. We’ll cover the shaders, render passes, dynamic texture masks, and how to integrate them into the URP. We’ll also touch on GPU debugging, mesh generation, and other implementation details.

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A graphics programmer from Chimera Entertainment presents advanced rendering techniques used in Songs of Silence, a 4X strategy game. The talk covers four major effects: fog of war using signed distance fields and ray marching, the "silence" corruption effect with dynamic texture masking, grass rendering with shell rendering and trample damage using GPU instancing, and light veins connecting cities using Bézier curves. Key techniques include frustum-space rendering for performance optimization, cameraless rendering with command buffers, procedural mesh generation in shaders, and custom compute buffer workflows for efficient GPU data transfer.

Rendering the silence: Advanced graphics techniques in Songs of Silence | Unite 2025