July 1, 2020

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Developer Blog: Creating Optimal Meshes for Ray Tracing

When you are creating triangle meshes for ray tracing or reusing meshes that have been successfully used in rasterization-based rendering, there are some pitfalls that can cause surprising performance issues. … Read more

July 1, 2020

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NVIDIA OptiX SDK Tackles Hair and Fur with Release 7.1

OptiX SDK 7.1 is the latest update to the new OptiX 7 API. Version 7.1 introduces a new curve primitive for hair and fur, tiled denoising, and improved debugging and profiling. … Read more

June 17, 2020

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Developer Blog: Implementing Stochastic Levels of Detail with Microsoft DirectX Raytracing

In this technical how-to post, we demonstrate one possible way to implement stochastic LOD using the Microsoft DirectX Raytracing (DXR) API. … Read more

May 27, 2020

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NVIDIA Day 1 Game-Ready Driver Support for Windows 10 May 2020 Update

Within this new update, there are a wide variety of new features and functionality ranging from small additions (like GPU temperature being shown in task manager) to the introduction of the new DirectX 12 Ultimate graphics API. … Read more

May 14, 2020

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Rendering Millions of Dynamic Lights in Real-Time

Today NVIDIA is releasing the ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 research paper showing how to render dynamic direct lighting and shadows from millions of area lights in real-time. This was previously impossible. … Read more

May 8, 2020

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Getting Started with Real-Time Ray Tracing and DLSS in Unreal Engine 4

The RTX Developer User Guide is a living knowledge document that details all the latest improvements and optimizations to ray tracing in Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). … Read more

May 5, 2020

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The DXR Spotlight contest is back!

We’re bringing back the DXR Spotlight contest for 2020. Last year’s contest was a tremendous success, garnering dozens of entrants and positive press throughout the game and content creation community. … Read more

May 5, 2020

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Unreal Engine 4.25 Released, Ray Tracing Features Now Ready for Production

All Unreal Engine developers can now produce sophisticated lighting simulations in their applications. With the release of update 4.25, the engine’s robust ray-tracing features have come out of beta, and are ready for production. … Read more

May 5, 2020

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Using Real-Time Ray Tracing in the Production of Fortnite Game Trailers

We talked with Andrew Harris (Studio CG Supervisor at Epic Games), Juan Cañada (Lead Programmer, Epic Games), and Juan Collado (FX Artist, Epic Games) to learn about how they are using real-time ray tracing in the production of these cinematic experiences. … Read more

Tag Archives: Ray Tracing

Developer Blog: Creating Optimal Meshes for Ray Tracing

NVIDIA OptiX SDK Tackles Hair and Fur with Release 7.1

Top Nine Questions About the ‘Ray Tracing Essentials’ series from Developers

Developer Blog: Implementing Stochastic Levels of Detail with Microsoft DirectX Raytracing

NVIDIA Day 1 Game-Ready Driver Support for Windows 10 May 2020 Update

Rendering Millions of Dynamic Lights in Real-Time

Getting Started with Real-Time Ray Tracing and DLSS in Unreal Engine 4

The DXR Spotlight contest is back!

Unreal Engine 4.25 Released, Ray Tracing Features Now Ready for Production

Using Real-Time Ray Tracing in the Production of Fortnite Game Trailers

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