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
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.
How Christian Hecht Single-Handedly Built DXR Spotlight Demo “Attack From Outer Space” in One Month
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
This post is about the seventh and final video in this series, Denoising 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. Some mesh properties that have been acceptable in rasterization can be problematic in ray tracing or require specific handling to work as expected. This post … Continued
In ray tracing, a single pipeline state object (PSO) can contain any number of shaders. This number can grow large, depending on scene content and ray types handled with the PSO; construction cost of the state object can significantly increase. The DXR API makes it possible to distribute part of the creation work to multiple … Continued
Epic Games is adding ‘Early Access’ support for ray tracing through the DirectX Raytracing API (DXR) to Unreal Engine with the pending release of Unreal Engine 4.22. Demos dating back to GDC 2018 show impressive ray tracing results using DXR. However, UE 4.22 integrates ray tracing support into the mainline branch, making ray tracing available to … Continued
RTX is NVIDIA’s new platform for hybrid rendering, allowing the combination of rasterization and compute-based techniques with hardware-accelerated ray tracing and deep learning. It has already been adopted in a number of games and engines. Based on those experiences, this blog aims to give the reader an insight into how RTX ray tracing is best … Continued
This post was updated on April 17, 2024. For developers working on ray tracing applications for both DirectX 12 and Vulkan, ray tracing validation is here to help you improve performance, find hard-to-debug issues, and root-cause crashes. Unlike existing debug solutions, ray tracing validation performs checks at the driver level, which enables it to identify … Continued
The union of ray tracing and AI is pushing graphics fidelity and performance to new heights. Helping you build optimized, bug-free applications in this era of rendering technology, the latest release of NVIDIA Nsight Graphics introduces new features for ray tracing development, including tools to help you harness AI acceleration. Check out what’s new in … Continued
OptiX 7.3 brings temporal denoising and improvements to OptiX Curves primitives and new features to the OptiX Demand Loading library.
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.
In the fourth installment of our ‘Ray Tracing Essentials’ video series, NVIDIA’s Eric Haines runs through the ray tracing pipeline, including the five types of ray tracing shaders, and how they fit together.
In the third installment of our ‘Ray Tracing Essentials’ video series, NVIDIA’s Eric Haines touches on the decades-long history of ray tracing hardware and explains modern acceleration techniques.
