Game Developer

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Baked-in lighting, mushy meshes, and high polygon counts are telltale signs of AI-generated work.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, using a configurator in a built environment presents multiple challenges including 3D meshes changing shape, shadows not lining up, and materials reflecting different lighting and colors. Because the lighting is baked in, it’s difficult to test out multiple lighting scenarios. Photo courtesy of Theia Interactive.

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

DLSS uses advanced AI rendering to produce image quality comparable to native resolution, and in some cases even better quality, while only conventionally rendering a fraction of the pixels. This AI based anti-aliasing mode is for users with spare GPU headroom and looking for higher levels of image quality.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. DLSS is powered by dedicated AI processors on RTX GPUs called Tensor Cores. Version 1.1.30

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

By adding a simple cache to it, we made it so that light map texture coordinates are only computed when there's an actual change to the geometry of the mesh. Here you can see the Sponza demo model, with baked direct lighting, and the corresponding light map: Note that this first pass is not taking occlusion into account yet.

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