PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

By merging compatible render passes into native render passes (on platforms like Vulkan, Metal, and DX12), Unity reduces the amount of data transferred between the GPU and system memory, significantly cutting down on memory bandwidth usage.

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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. This works today.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 12, 2022

SER is a performance optimization that unlocks the potential for better ray and memory coherency in ray tracing shaders and thus increased shading efficiency. Background Shading divergence is a long-standing problem in ray tracing. You do not have to allocate or bind a resource for this.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 26, 2021

To enable this, set the ‘Capture Type’ to ‘One-shot [Beta]’ While TraceRays/DispatchRays has been the common way to initiate ray generation, it’s now possible to ray trace directly from your compute shaders using DXR1.1 and the new Khronos Vulkan Ray Tracing extension.

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Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Featuring third-generation Ray Tracing Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores, they accelerate games that take advantage of the latest neural graphics and ray tracing technology. Path tracing takes a physics-based approach to how light moves around a scene.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

Free threaded resource creation may also be a natural fit for async copy queue uploads, which would enable completely free threaded data uploads to vidmem for newly allocated resources. For more information, see Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing. Rebuilds should be relatively fixed overhead.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Developers can apply now for access to RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI), the latest advancement in real-time ray tracing. REAL TIME RAY TRACING MADE EASIER RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) Imagine adding millions of dynamic lights to your game environments without worrying about performance or resource constraints.

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Nvidia

JUNE 22, 2021

Before NVIDIA RTX introduced real-time ray tracing to games, global illumination in games was largely static. It handles fine-scale textures such as albedo, roughness, or bump maps, and scales to large, outdoor environments neither requiring auxiliary data structures nor scene parameterizations. The images were rendered offline.

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Nvidia

JULY 19, 2021

Nsight Aftermath SDK provides valuable data for debugging GPU exceptions. Applications using the latest graphics APIs like Direct3D 12 and Vulkan, along with cutting edge capabilities like ray tracing, can push the GPU more than ever. NV Vulkan Ray Tracing Extension), OpenGL, OpenVR, and the Oculus SDK.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 9, 2023

When using advanced rendering techniques like ray tracing or path tracing, Nsight tools are your companion for creating a smooth and polished experience. At SIGGRAPH 2023, NVIDIA hosted a lab exploring how to use NVIDIA Nsight Tools to debug and profile ray tracing applications. Nsight Aftermath SDK 2023.2

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Nvidia

APRIL 7, 2021

Omniverse Nucleus allows users to store, share, and collaborate on project data and provides the unique ability to collaborate live across multiple applications. NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine OptiX provides a programmable GPU-accelerated Ray-Tracing Pipeline that is scalable across multiple NVIDIA GPU architectures.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Path Tracing and Real-time Ray Tracing Enhanced path tracer - The Path Tracer in Unreal Engine is a DXR-accelerated progressive rendering mode that offers offline-quality rendering with ray-tracing architecture. With Unreal Engine, we transform BIM and CAD data into stunning visualizations and VR experiences.

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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

MARCH 17, 2023

Unlike previous formats, USD compositions can be used to edit data in a non-destructive manner. Even data containing unique specifications for games can be transferred back and forth between various tools without losing data. It is necessary to understand the USD specifications, data structure, API specifications, and so on.

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Nvidia

APRIL 20, 2023

This post guides you through the steps in GPU Trace, for each familiar workflow in the Range Profiler. In this post, I answer the following questions: As a new user of GPU Trace, what should my workflow look like? Where can I find each piece of data, previously shown in the Range Profiler? Open the Range Profiler tool window.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This content may include synthetic data, audio, video, text, and imagery. Generative AI models can produce high-quality content depending on the data they were trained on. Visual Enhancements AI-driven upscaling, ray-tracing, and denoising techniques can improve the visual quality of games.

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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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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For example, a shader can use warp shuffle instructions to exchange data between threads in a warp without going through shared memory, which is especially valuable in pixel shaders where there is no shared memory. Updated from the original 2016 post to add information about new intrinsics and cross-vendor APIs in DirectX and Vulkan.

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Nvidia

JUNE 21, 2023

DLSS 3 technologies The DLSS Frame Generation plugin uses Frame Generation to create entirely new frames by analyzing sequential frames and motion data from the Optical Flow Accelerator in GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs. Bundled inside the DLSS Frame Generation plugin is NVIDIA Reflex.

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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. This means that the editor needs to consult an API that extracts all such data from the GDNative based VCS addons available to the engine.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 3, 2023

Marking a year of new and evolving technologies, 2022 produced wide-ranging advancements and AI-powered solutions across industries. These include boosting HPC. Marking a year of new and evolving technologies, 2022 produced wide-ranging advancements and AI-powered solutions across industries.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

[stextbox id="info"]This post is an update of Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing.[/stextbox] This post is an update of Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing. This post gathers best practices based on our experiences so far using NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Data nodes are disconnected; in case connections from multiple connections are present the current connection that you make takes precedence. Motion matching, on the other hand is a method where the computer chooses the best pose for each frame by itself from a huge database of motion capture ( MoCap ) data using some algorithm.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Don’t overlap workloads that use the same resource for reading and writing, as it causes data hazards. Ray tracing Math-limited compute If RT is RTCore dominated, the time spent traversing triangles in the BVH can be overlapped with something like denoising for the previous ray tracing pass or some other math-limited post-processing pass.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

We adopted USD to streamline our content pipelines and have something that performs well with large amounts of data and can be easily extended. Our schemas are generated from a proprietary data definition language that we use to specify all our content data classes. For more information about Remedy, see Remedy Entertainment.

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