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

AUGUST 4, 2021

Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress. This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress. This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering.

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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

MARCH 14, 2024

As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a. As a result, shader profilers are now a must-have tool for optimizing ray tracing.

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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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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

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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Played with Fire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Thanks to advancements in real-time rendering technologies, such as ray tracing, and next-generation VR headsets, users can now experience environments that look and feel almost indistinguishable from reality. Here are 5 VR trends in 2025.

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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

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

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

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. World position offset simulation for ray traced instanced static meshes (beta) Allows ambient motion of foliage like trees and grass.

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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

JULY 1, 2021

Attendees will also get an exclusive look at how NVIDIA Omniverse, the open platform for virtual collaboration and simulation, is helping developers accelerate production workflows. The Technology Behind NvRTX Game developers can dive into the NvRTX family of branches, and learn how to bring enhanced ray tracing support to Unreal Engine 4.

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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

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

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 22, 2021

This is a challenging task, even in cinematic rendering, because it is difficult to find all the paths of light that contribute meaningfully to an image. Solving this problem through brute force requires hundreds, sometimes thousands of paths per pixel, but this is far too expensive for real-time rendering.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution. DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution images.

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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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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

Improved HDRP Asset Import Times in Unity 2023 HDRP stands for “ High Definition Render Pipeline ”, a rendering technology designed by Unity to generate high-quality images in real-time applications, including games, simulations and interactive experiences. Improved UI Toolkit rendering performance Also, Unity 2022.2.11

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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.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2021

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. It gives you the performance headroom to maximize ray tracing settings and increase output resolution. RTXGI 1.1.40

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Nvidia

JULY 6, 2021

Samples illustrating usage in 3D, Compute, and Ray Tracing. New: Ray Tracing Samples Below is a screenshot of Microsoft’s Real Time Denoised Ambient Occlusion sample, containing Nsight Perf SDK instrumentation. Each render pass or phase of execution has been annotated to take a measurement.

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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

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

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

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

OCTOBER 4, 2022

NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing is the ultimate solution for ray tracing. The rendering pipeline of Justice is built on physically based rendering (PBR). Realistic physical illumination is naturally implemented with path tracing, which improves visual appeal and reduces defects.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin for UE4 DLSS is a deep learning super resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher resolution images. DLSS pairs perfectly with computationally intensive rendering algorithms such as real-time ray tracing. The new NVIDIA UE 4.25

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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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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

AUGUST 31, 2023

For more information, see Ray Tracing Gems: High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs. The method does not require modification of the traversal and ray/triangle intersection routines and can thus be used with closed-source and hardware-accelerated ray tracing APIs like DXR.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

For interior scenes and close-up exteriors in architecture, Lumen is highly effective and makes rendering easy, comfortable, and quick and offers the highest quality at the same time. One of the reasons is its physically based rendering material system and importing pipeline that makes importing models and projects into Unreal Engine easy.

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