A view from a camera model rendered in NVIDIA DRIVE Sim.
Technical Walkthrough 0 Dec 16, 2021

Validating NVIDIA DRIVE Sim Camera Models

This post covers the validation of camera models in DRIVE Sim, assessing the performance elements, from rendering of the world scene to protocol simulation. 17 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 0 Jul 19, 2021

Reducing Acceleration Structure Memory with NVIDIA RTXMU

RTXMU (RTX Memory Utility) combines both compaction and suballocation techniques to optimize and reduce memory consumption of acceleration structures for any… 11 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 0 Dec 08, 2020

Generating Ray-Traced Caustic Effects in Unreal Engine 4, Part 2

In the first post on ray-traced caustic effects, we introduced mesh caustics and its usages in Unreal Engine 4. In this second post, we describe water caustics. 13 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 0 Dec 08, 2020

Generating Ray-Traced Caustic Effects in Unreal Engine 4, Part 1

Caustics are common optical phenomenon in the real world. From the sloshing sparkles by water surfaces to the curved highlights in the backlight of clear glass… 20 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 0 Oct 20, 2020

Lighting Scenes with Millions of Lights Using RTX Direct Illumination

At GTC Fall 2020, NVIDIA announced an upcoming developer SDK, RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI), which enables and accelerates the rendering of dynamic direct… 7 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 0 Jun 26, 2020

Fixing Ray-traced Shadow Content Issues with NVIDIA RTX-Dev

Custom NVIDIA RTX branches for Unreal Engine 4 (RTX-Dev) may substantially help your development effort by providing enhanced compatibility with certain types… 6 MIN READ