How Wolfenstein Youngblood Integrated Ray Tracing for Next-Generation Visuals
Engineers from MachineGames and NVIDIA outline how they used the latest in ray traced reflections to create bleeding edge visuals in Wolfenstein Youngblood.
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The Authoritative Book on Real-Time Ray Tracing Has Arrived
In 2018, with the release of NVIDIA’s RTX series GPUs, real-time ray tracing finally became accessible to game developers, content creators, and consumers. It is a technology that will forever change graphics processing. To help developers navigate this new technology, a wide-ranging book on the topic is being published early this year: Ray Tracing Gems. … Continued
Coffee Break Series: Ray Tracing in Games with NVIDIA RTX
Ray tracing will soon revolutionize the way video games look. Ray tracing simulates how rays of light hit and bounce off of objects, enabling developers to create stunning imagery that lives up to the word “photorealistic”. Ignacio Llamas and Edward Liu from NVIDIA’s real-time rendering software team will introduce you to real-time ray tracing in … Continued
Fast and Fun: My First Real-Time Ray Tracing Demo
Editor’s note: What happens when a veteran graphics programmer with substantial experience in old-school ray tracing (in other words, offline rendering), gets hold of hardware capable of real-time ray tracing? I’m finally convinced. I joined NVIDIA around SIGGRAPH, just as the RTX hardware for ray tracing was announced. I saw the demos, heard the stats, but … Continued
Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing
To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data processing towards optimized tracing and shading of every hit that you encounter. Instance data generation In a common scene, there can be far more static than dynamic objects. … Continued
Flexible and Powerful Ray Tracing with NVIDIA OptiX 8
In the realm of computer graphics, achieving photorealistic visuals has been a long-sought goal. NVIDIA OptiX is a powerful and flexible ray-tracing framework, enabling you to harness the potential of ray tracing. NVIDIA OptiX is a GPU-accelerated, ray-casting API based on the CUDA parallel programming model. It gives you all the tools required to implement … Continued
Optimize Your Ray Tracing Graphics with the New NVIDIA RTX Branch of Unreal Engine 5
This feature-rich branch is fully compatible with Unreal Engine 5, and contains all of the latest developments from NVIDIA in the world of ray tracing.
AAA Ray Tracing as a Solo Artist
How Christian Hecht Single-Handedly Built DXR Spotlight Demo “Attack From Outer Space” in One Month
DX12 Ray Tracing Tutorials
Real-time ray tracing represents a new milestone in gaming graphics. Game developers have relied on rasterization techniques which looked very, very good. However, rasterization good enough to achieve near-realism requires a substantial time investment on the part of developers and artists. NVIDIA RTX technology combined with Microsoft’s DXR ray tracing extension for DirectX 12 will … Continued
Introducing Ray Tracing in Unreal Engine 4
Ray tracing in Unreal Engine 4 is a powerful and flexible lighting system. It’s powerful because of its accuracy and quality. Never have you had the ability to do things like shadows and reflections like this in real time. It’s flexible because you can mix raster and ray tracing rendering features together as you see … Continued
Video Series: Real-Time Ray Tracing for Interactive Global Illumination Workflows in Frostbite
Real-time ray tracing is upon us. Electronic Arts leads the charge in integrating the technology on an engine level. This video series features Sebastien Hillaire, Senior Rendering Engineer at EA/Frostbite. Sebastian discusses real-time raytracing and global illumination (GI) workflows in Frostbite. He explains the context and the current workflows Frostbite uses, then describes the process … Continued
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).
Tips and Tricks: Getting the Best Ray Tracing Performance Out of Unreal Engine 4.23
Roughly five months ago, we introduced you to the new ray tracing support (via DirectX Raytracing) in the 4.22 release of Unreal Engine. Recently, Epic Games released version 4.23 which brings a number of upgrades for those working with ray tracing. Even better, many of these new and improved features, such as enhancements to performance, … Continued
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.
Three Things You Need to Know About Ray Tracing in Vulkan
In this video, Nuno Subtil, Senior Devtech Engineer at NVIDIA, details the three most important things developers need to know about ray tracing in Vulkan. To learn more, you can attend his talk at GDC: Title: RAY TRACING IN VULKAN Location: Room 205, South Hall Date: Wednesday, March 20 Time: 10:30am – 11:15am Pass Type: … Continued