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Essential Ray Tracing SDKs for Game and Professional Development

Nvidia

To help them achieve this goal, NVIDIA has pioneered real-time ray tracing hardware with the launch of the RTX 20 series. RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) RTXGI provides developers with a scalable solution for multi-bounce indirect lighting without light leakage, time-intensive offline lightmap baking, or expensive per-frame costs.

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Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art 

iXie gaming

(Example: Soft light from a computer screen) There are two main methods to calculate lighting quality: Ray Tracing. Faster but less realistic, it determines colors based on how much of each pixel is covered by light. Mimics how light behaves in the real world for very realistic visuals but requires a lot of computing power.

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