AAA Ray Tracing as a Solo Artist
How Christian Hecht Single-Handedly Built DXR Spotlight Demo “Attack From Outer Space” in One Month … Read more
Tag Archives: Ray Tracing
Ray Tracing Tips: Optimizing the Performance of Path Roughness and Clearcoat BDRF in UE4
At SIGGRAPH2019, NVIDIA Engineers helped the development community get up-to-speed on the newest graphics techniques during an advanced real-time ray tracing tutorial. … Read more
OptiX 7 Delivers New Levels of Flexibility to Application Developers
At the heart of NVIDIA’s rendering solutions lies the OptiX ray tracing engine, providing developers the full performance of Turing’s RT Cores (ray tracing) and Tensor Cores (AI) … Read more
NVIDIA Leading the Ray Tracing Discussion at SIGGRAPH 2019
Topics include real-time path tracing and denoising, dynamic diffuse global illumination, RTX-accelerated ray tracing with Optix, and Ray Tracing at 240Hz … Read more
Ray Tracing in 4A’s Metro Exodus and Remedy’s Control
At GDC 2019, NVIDIA’s Martin Stich walked attendees through ray tracing in 4A’s Metro: Exodus (available now) and Remedy’s Control (coming later in 2019) on PC. … Read more
NVIDIA VULKAN Top 3: JUNE 2019
Every month, we’ll be delivering three interesting stories coming from the world of Vulkan Development … Read more
Working With Ray Traced Water Caustics in DXR
NVIDIA’s Holger Gruen enjoys snorkeling, a useful past-time when your day job includes figuring out how to help game developers get the most out of ray-traced water caustics in DXR … Read more
Global Illumination in Metro Exodus: An Artist’s Point of View
Why is real-time raytracing the future of lighting in game development? Because it allows artists to create more realistic visuals while simplifying the content preparation process … Read more
Integrating Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination (DDGI)
Global illumination light leaking is a persistent problem for artists in the game industry … Read more
Real-Time Ray Tracing’s Rapid Evolution
In March 2018, Epic Games, ILMxLAB, and NVIDIA unveiled “Reflections”, a Star Wars real-time ray tracing cinematic demo running on a $60,000 DGX Workstation. Just one year later, that same photoreal demo can be run on a laptop equipped with a single NVIDIA RTX GPU. … Read more