Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Easier ray-tracing integration for games with Kickstart RT In 2018, NVIDIA Turing architecture changed the game with real-time ray tracing. This scene highlights ray tracing, global illumination, ambient occlusion, and ray traced shadows, enabled through KickStart SDK.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

Integration of real-time path tracing technology simplified Real-time ray tracing in games was made possible with the introduction of RT cores in the NVIDIA Turing architecture. Released at GDC 2023, the NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing SDK is available to developers everywhere. Watch the demo video to learn more. Video 2.

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Played with Fire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Thanks to advancements in real-time rendering technologies, such as ray tracing, and next-generation VR headsets, users can now experience environments that look and feel almost indistinguishable from reality. Companies are heavily investing in building virtual spaces for work, collaboration, and even shopping.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Ray Tracing Optimizations Ray tracing, while providing stunning visual realism, is computationally expensive and can quickly consume a significant amount of GPU resources.

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Nvidia

JULY 13, 2022

Attendees can get tips on incorporating real-time rendering across their projects from the editors of Ray Tracing Gems II : Adam Marrs is a principal engineer in the Game Engines and Core Technology group at NVIDIA. He has written for GPU Zen 2 , Ray Tracing Gems , and recently served as the editor-in-chief of Ray Tracing Gems II.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Branch offers all of the benefits of mainline UE4.26, while providing some additional features: Faster ray tracing NVRTX includes a number of improvements to ray tracing performance. Hybrid Translucency Another way to do ray traced translucency, with greater compatibility, speed and rendering options.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 19, 2022

We recently kicked off our NVIDIA Developer Program exclusive series of Connect with Experts Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions featuring NVIDIA experts and Ray Tracing Gems editors Eric Haines, Adam Marrs, Peter Shirley, and Ingo Wald. Do ray tracing and deep learning overlap? Eric: Yes, in many ways.

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Nvidia

JULY 23, 2021

Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. Now, NVIDIA ray tracing and AI are making their premiere on Arm and Linux systems.

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

We showcased the latest NVIDIA-powered AI and real-time ray tracing tools that have made creativity faster and easier for artists and designers. Join today for free in order to get access to the tools and training necessary to build on NVIDIA’s technology platform. New SDK Releases NVIDIA OptiX 7.3

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Nvidia

JULY 6, 2021

Samples illustrating usage in 3D, Compute, and Ray Tracing. New: Ray Tracing Samples Below is a screenshot of Microsoft’s Real Time Denoised Ambient Occlusion sample, containing Nsight Perf SDK instrumentation. To try this out yourself, simply open the sample’s solution file in Visual Studio, build, and run.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The latest XR-4 series headsets support NVIDIA Omniverse and are powered by NVIDIA GPUs, unlocking high-fidelity photorealism and real-time ray-tracing capabilities for extended reality (XR) developers and users.

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

You’ll learn how to leverage Nucleus for collaboration, AI for asset tagging, and USD and MDL for ground truth content creation and lighting using ray tracing. Maximize these ray-tracing settings with DLSS, which will boost the frame-rate of the Attic scene while maintaining a high resolution.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2021

Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) added softening capability to the sharpness slider, and provided a workaround for packaged builds not initializing DLSS on d3d11 devices. RTXGI is supported on any DXR-enabled GPU, and is an ideal starting point to bring the benefits of ray tracing to your existing tools, knowledge, and capabilities.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

BuildRaytracingAccelerationStructure Ray tracing acceleration structures are data structures that organize the geometric information of a scene to optimize the intersection tests between rays and scene objects. Be wary of CPU overhead directly related to geometric complexity for full builds.

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Nvidia

MAY 28, 2023

Developers of middleware, tools, and games can use NVIDIA ACE for Games to build and deploy customized speech, conversation, and animation AI models in software and games. This toolkit assists you in building accurate, appropriate, on-topic, and secure game characters. 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

Enables dynamic world-building with non-repetitive assets. Ray tracing and AI-powered upscaling (DLSS/FSR) enhance performance and realism. Procedural Generation By automating terrain, foliage, and props, procedural generation: (i). Reduces manual workload while maintaining artistic flexibility. (ii).

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

You can get started building applications today. We’ve created a series of introductory videos for NVIDIA technologies in UE5 including: Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) NVIDIA Reflex NVIDIA Omniverse Connector for UE5 The video below provides an overview for implementing ray tracing in Unreal Engine 5.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

DLSS pairs perfectly with computationally intensive rendering algorithms such as real-time ray tracing. Pushing PC Gaming to New Levels With our work with ray tracing, DLSS and Reflex, NVIDIA is revolutionizing what is possible from a GPU. Ray tracing and DLSS is supported in the most popular game – Minecraft.

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Nvidia

APRIL 7, 2021

Quickly build tools. NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine OptiX provides a programmable GPU-accelerated Ray-Tracing Pipeline that is scalable across multiple NVIDIA GPU architectures. Nucleus works on a local machine, on-premises, or in the cloud. Learn more about NVIDIA Omniverse , which is currently in open beta.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

To create highly detailed and realistic visuals, HDRP employs cutting-edge graphics techniques like complex lighting models, post-processing effects, and real-time ray tracing. Unity DevOps, a new solution that unifies version control and builds automation, has also been introduced.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

This laid out a vision of a new era of computer graphics for video games that featured photorealistic, ray-traced lighting, AI-powered effects and complex worlds with massive amounts of geometry and high-resolution textures.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Computer software like Unreal Engine has been in the works to build 3D models of structures. Its convenient features allow architects and Unreal Engine developers to build immersive environments from scratch. Over this, you can start building the rest of the design which includes buildings, neighborhoods, grass, trees, foliage, etc.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Of course, this includes updating the utilities, doing a spring cleanup, and maybe even building a new addition. Good developer tools are like an x-ray machine that allows you to peek into the internals of the GPU. Nsight Graphics offers in-depth graphics debugging for both ray-traced and rasterized applications.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

sun/moonlight, overhead lights in a building, etc.). Real-Time 3D & Virtual Production Course : Learn world building, lighting, and camera skills, using them to tell compelling stories and create film-quality environments. Learn different aspects of 3D lighting, from ray tracing to exploring light types and how they work.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This is because ray tracing and real-time global illumination remain quite resource-intensive. Mebratu: I have experience building engines from sources like voxel-based GI (VXGI) , so compiling NvRTX was a smooth process. Most current and upcoming games still need to rely on a prebaked global illumination system to some extent.

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian , NetEase Game Engine Development Researcher and Manager of NetEase Thunder Fire Games Technical Center, to see what he’s learned as the Justice team added NVIDIA ray-tracing solutions to their development pipeline.

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Nvidia

JULY 22, 2021

Collaboration and simulation platform simplifies complex challenges like multi-app workflows, facial animation, asset searching, and building proprietary tools. Collaboration and simulation platform simplifies complex challenges like multi-app workflows, facial animation, asset searching, and building proprietary tools.

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Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

As a result, running with a Debug build of an application may result in less optimal GPU workloads, for instance. Even for a Release build, the driver background optimizations may be turned on and off dynamically from frame to frame.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Previously, we started seeing issues while working on ever-growing data sets, bottlenecks with version control, workflow with larger content teams, and the limited capabilities of building more complex building blocks of content to share between games. Why USD over other file formats and what schemas or libraries did you integrate?

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Nvidia

JUNE 21, 2023

THE FINALS | Beta Gameplay with DLSS 3, Ray Tracing, and NVIDIA Reflex The DLSS Super Resolution plugin supports a variety of image quality modes—from Ultra Performance to Quality—determined by the native resolution relative to the DLSS output resolution. Bundled inside the DLSS Frame Generation plugin is NVIDIA Reflex.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

As USD already provides the functions needed for building pipelines, such as compositions, asset resolvers, file format plug-ins, and custom schemas, we adapted it to fit our pipeline. We have been working on building a structure and publishing environment for assets that assume USD. Of course we do.

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Nvidia

APRIL 20, 2023

For more information about GPU Trace and its many applications, see the following resources: Advanced API Performance: Async Compute and Overlap Identifying Shader Limiters with the Shader Profiler in NVIDIA Nsight Graphics Building Acceleration Structures Using Async Compute (video) How to Improve Shader Performance by Resolving LDC Divergence (video) (..)

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

And are there potential challenges that developers should be aware of when using generative AI to build games? Visual Enhancements AI-driven upscaling, ray-tracing, and denoising techniques can improve the visual quality of games. But what is generative AI? How will it transform the gaming landscape? What is Generative AI?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

support for the latest VR headset, ray-tracing, latest C# version or tool, etc.), We need him to build a bug-free engine on all platforms and across our supported features. We will try to make sure that donations go to finance general development, bug fixing and polish. which are generaly not of so much priority in our roadmap.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2019

I finished integrating Embree into the engine's build system and also added a simple ray tracing API that allows for defining a set of meshes and perform ray intersection tests among them. Mentors: Juan Linietsky ( reduz ) and Bastiaan Olij ( BastiaanOlij ). Repository: [link]. Current progress. else { stop(); } }.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

The main goal of my GSoC project is to completely rewrite the light mapper in Godot and, instead of a voxel approach, use ray tracing to compute the scene lighting. I'm currently working on integrating Embree as a ray tracing library into the Godot editor. Current progress. That will be added in the following weeks.

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Game Designing

MARCH 24, 2023

Techniques like ray tracing are now becoming quicker and easier to be rendered in real-time, allowing for even more convincing virtual worlds, and thus more convincing virtual productions. The Future of Virtual Production Virtual production has proved to be a very useful tool in recent years, and things are only going to get better.

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