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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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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

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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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. Simulates how light bounces between surfaces, making lighting look more natural and filling in dark areas. Rasterization. Five Advanced Lighting Techniques Global Illumination (GI).

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