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 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

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. Get started with SER and NVIDIA API. The NVIDIA Unreal Engine 5 NvRTX 5.0.3

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

Developers, engineers, artists and leaders from game studios across the world gathered virtually at this year’s virtual GTC to learn how the latest NVIDIA. 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.

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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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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

MAY 28, 2023

The ramen shop scene, created by the NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios art team, runs in the NVIDIA RTX Branch of Unreal Engine 5 (NvRTX 5.1). 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

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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Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As I look back at the history of NVIDIA RTX, now with over 500 RTX games and applications powered by DLSS, ray tracing, and AI-enhanced technologies, I thought it would be a good time to sit down and talk with Alexey Panteleev , an NVIDIA engineer who worked closely on the Quake II RTX project. Any thoughts or suggestions to share?

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

There is no environment like KATANA or Houdini SOLARIS where you can lay out the USD, light it, render it, and so on. To be able to use the renderer in a game engine, you must either prepare a conversion pipeline instead of a renderer or use a game engine.

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Game Designing

MARCH 24, 2023

Virtual production is one of the hottest new developments in film production and is now being used by many studios across the world. The many different sets of a film can then be filmed in just one studio outfitted with a video screen that brings virtual spaces into the real world.

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Nvidia

JULY 22, 2021

And often, studios are spending development hours creating their own proprietary tools to enable these workflows. Luminous and Embark Studios, two of the early evaluators of NVIDIA Omniverse for game development, have adopted USD to leverage the Omniverse-connected ecosystem and accelerate their workflows.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Now, he’s director of technology at Remedy Entertainment, the studio that created Alan Wake and Control. What was the reaction of artists, tech artists, art directors, and studio executives to the move to USD? Vehkala spoke with NVIDIA about embracing USD into its game development pipeline.

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