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Free Chapters From the Upcoming Ray Tracing Gems II Every Week in July

Nvidia

Every Wednesday in July, NVIDIA Developer is making pre-print PDFs of full chapters from the upcoming book Ray Tracing Gems II available free for download. Every Wednesday in July, NVIDIA Developer is making pre-print PDFs of full chapters from the upcoming book Ray Tracing Gems II available free for download.

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Emerging Trends in Game Art: Real-Time Rendering, Stylized Game Art, and Beyond 

iXie gaming

The advancements in GPUs, ray tracing, and game engines like Unreal Engine 5 and Unitys HDRP (High Definition Render Pipeline) have pushed real-time rendering to the forefront of game art innovation. Games like Cyberpunk 2077, Control, and Minecraft RTX showcase how ray tracing can elevate realism without compromising performance.

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Experience the Latest Breakthroughs in Game Development with NVIDIA at GDC

Nvidia

NvRTX Artist Guide Learn more about the NVIDIA RTX Unreal Engine Branch (NvRTX), and discover technologies such as RTXDI, RTXGI, new denoisers like Relax, ray-traced volumetrics and tools like the BVH viewer. This session will cover several challenges developers can encounter when working to deploy ray tracing in a game environment.

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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines 

iXie gaming

Manual handoffs between concept artists, modelers, and animators. (ii). AI-Assisted Art Creation Generative AI accelerates concept art, texturing, and asset variations. Generate rapid concept art iterations based on simple prompts. (ii). Ray tracing and AI-powered upscaling (DLSS/FSR) enhance performance and realism.

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Creative Ways to Teach Applied Math to Kids

Real Programming

Depending on how the concepts are framed, math can seem abstract, difficult, or boring. Games at the Heart of Class The basic idea of making it fun for kids to learn math involves embedded math concepts into our lessons about how to create video games. RP4K has a few ways to make our online math courses fun and exciting. and an M.Sc.

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NVIDIA at GDC 2021: RTX and AI Sees New Platforms, New Development Tools, New Updates, and a New SDK

Nvidia

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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How to become a 3D Lighting Artist

CG Spectrum

Creating or applying light rigs based on concept art or on set reference. Learn different aspects of 3D lighting, from ray tracing to exploring light types and how they work. Compiling upstream elements such as environments, animation, and effects and ensuring they look correct when rendered.

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