Nvidia

JUNE 30, 2021

Engineers, product developers and designers around the world attended GTC to experience the latest NVIDIA solutions that are accelerating interactive rendering. We showcased a wide variety of NVIDIA-powered ray tracing technologies and features that provide more realistic visualizations for artists and designers worldwide.

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Nvidia

JULY 7, 2021

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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Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. What is the difference between path tracing and ray tracing?

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, developers can access the latest versions of RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI), RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI), NVIDIA Real-Time Denoisers (NRD), and OptiX Ray Tracing Engine (OptiX). The Sun Temple scene from ORCA rendered in real time using RTXDI. NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine 7.4 NVIDIA OptiX 7.4

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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. During the AMA, the editors offered some valuable guidance and tips on how to successfully integrate real-time rendering. Do ray tracing and deep learning overlap?

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Nvidia

JULY 29, 2021

Developed by XeloGames, an indie studio of just three, and published by Headup Games, Escape from Naraka achieves eye-catching ray-traced lighting using RTX. Escape from Naraka was made in Unreal Engine 4, using NVIDIA’s NvRTX branch to bring ray tracing and DLSS into production.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

It sits between the game and render API, and abstracts the SDK-specific API calls into an easy-to-use Streamline framework. Streamline’s plug-and-play framework sits between the game and render API. 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

NVIDIA at GDC 2023: Frame Generation and Path Tracing Tools Now Available Generate frames with the latest breakthrough in AI rendering Announced with the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, DLSS 3 raised the bar not just for visuals but also performance and responsiveness. Frame generation is the latest evolution.

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Nvidia

MAY 18, 2021

All of these GTC sessions are now available through NVIDIA On-Demand, so you can catch up on the latest tools and techniques in game development, from real-time ray tracing to low-latency software development kits. Ray Tracing in One Weekend Watch this session to get a beginners introduction to ray tracing.

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Nvidia

JULY 1, 2021

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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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

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 is the author of several books, including the recent Ray Tracing in One Weekend series.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

AI Super Resolution Tech Available Later This Year Unity made real-time ray tracing available to all of their developers in 2019 with the release of 2019LTS. AI Super Resolution Tech Available Later This Year Unity made real-time ray tracing available to all of their developers in 2019 with the release of 2019LTS.

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Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Check out our top sessions below for those working in the gaming industry: Ray Tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 Learn how ray tracing was used to create the visuals in the game, and how the developers at CD Projekt RED used extensive ray tracing techniques to bring the bustling Night City to life.

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

Engineers, product developers and designers worldwide attended GTC to learn how the latest NVIDIA technologies are accelerating real-time, interactive rendering. We showcased the latest NVIDIA-powered AI and real-time ray tracing tools that have made creativity faster and easier for artists and designers.

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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. Immersive experiences with the Varjo XR-4 series are further enhanced by the accelerated rendering facilitated by Omniverse.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2021

And NVIDIA Reflex is now a standard feature in Unreal Engine 4.27. UE4 plugin (Download here ) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, RTXGI provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Details for each product are below. RTXGI 1.1.40

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

Researchers, professionals or game app developers all need to remain up-to-date with the recent advancements as well as features of the Unity engine to create and enjoy the best games possible. It can handle high-end graphics features such as physically-based rendering, volumetric effects and high dynamic range (HDR) lighting.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 13, 2021

We have several GTC sessions for game developers , content creators, and engineers looking to explore new tools and techniques accelerated by NVIDIA technologies, from real-time rendering to cloud gaming. Gameplay screenshot from the upcoming title Battlefield 2024.

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Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Explore how ray-traced caustics combined with NVIDIA RTX features can enhance the performance of your games. Explore how ray-traced caustics combined with NVIDIA RTX features can enhance the performance of your games.

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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. It delivers up to 4x improvements in frame rate and up to 2x improvements in latency compared to native resolution rendering.

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Nvidia

JULY 6, 2021

New features include: Simplified APIs to measure GPU performance within your. New features include: Simplified APIs to measure GPU performance within your application, and generate HTML performance reports . Samples illustrating usage in 3D, Compute, and Ray Tracing. The Nsight Perf SDK v2021.1

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 12, 2022

NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). Background Shading divergence is a long-standing problem in ray tracing.

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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

APRIL 5, 2022

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. Deep Learning Anti-Aliasing mode or DLAA.

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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

MARCH 24, 2021

NVIDIA set out to redefine real-time rendering through AI-based super resolution — rendering a fraction of the original pixels and then using AI to reconstruct sharp, higher resolution images. With DLSS, users can maximize ray-tracing settings and increase output resolution.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At that time, we immediately integrated RTX features into Justice and quickly pushed it online. NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing is the ultimate solution for ray tracing. The rendering pipeline of Justice is built on physically based rendering (PBR). How has path tracing affected your visuals and gameplay?

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Technology Showcase project files are also available for further guidance and discovery of the benefits that ray tracing and AI brings to your projects. The ray tracing SDKs are available through NvRTX while DLSS is available as a UE 4.26

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Grab your copy of GPU Zen 3 to lean about the latest in real-time rendering, including NVIDIA contributions to Cyberpunk 2077. Grab your copy of GPU Zen 3 to lean about the latest in real-time rendering, including NVIDIA contributions to Cyberpunk 2077.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 11, 2021

With RTXDI, lighting artists can render scenes with millions of dynamic area lights in real-time without complex computational overheads or disruptive changes to the artist’s workflow. This is a segment from a two-part video available on GTC on Demand, entitled “ Rendering Game With Millions of Ray Traced Lights ”.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

Recommended Use a dedicated thread for resource creation to avoid hidden OS costs and blocking frame rendering, as this can result in costly OS paging work. Structuring uploads this way avoids adding hidden overhead to frame rendering. For more information, see Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Theia is known for pioneering the use of real-time rendering for non-game mixed reality and interactive development. RTXGI renders accurate, multi-bounce, indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or exceed performance requirements. And DLSS makes real-time ray tracing possible.

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Nvidia

MAY 28, 2023

Audio2Face features Omniverse connectors for Unreal Engine 5, so you can add facial animation directly to MetaHuman characters. The scene is rendered using RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) for ray-traced lighting and shadows alongside NVIDIA DLSS 3 for maximum performance. 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Architectural visualization has existed since the time of ancient civilizations and has now been revolutionized with the Unreal Engine and its cutting-edge functions and features. Its convenient features allow architects and Unreal Engine developers to build immersive environments from scratch.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

3D lighting involves simulating the behavior of light in a real-world or fantasy situation, including shadows, reflections, highlights, and color, using specialized lighting software and rendering tools. Scene from the 3D animation Finding Nemo before and after its been lit and rendered by a 3D lighting artist (Image: Pixar).

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