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The Bright Side of Ray-Traced Global Illumination in Unity

The GameDev Guru

Let's get back to ray tracing with Unity global illumination. See what's a better fit for you: baked GI, screen-space GI and ray-traced GI.

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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. Traditionally, most lighting is baked offline, computing just a handful of “hero” dynamic lights at runtime. From the beginning, NRD was specifically designed to work well with low ray budgets.

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Updates to NVIDIA’s Unreal Engine 4 Branch, DLSS, and RTXGI Available Now

Nvidia

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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Try NVIDIA Game Development SDKs in the Interactive RTX Technology Showcase

Nvidia

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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Game Stack Live to Feature RTXDI and Minecraft Graphics Sessions (April 20-21)

Nvidia

NVIDIA will be participating with two talks: Introduction to Real-Time Ray Tracing with Minecraft This talk is aimed at graphics engineers that have little or no experience with ray tracing. Traditionally, game developers have baked most lighting and supported a small number of “hero” lights that are computed at runtime.

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Theia Interactive Generates Realistic and Interactive Scenes with DLSS and RTX Global Illumination

Nvidia

Because the lighting is baked in, it’s difficult to test out multiple lighting scenarios. Theia could have pre-baked all of the configurator customization options, but that would have resulted in thousands of configurations for custom models. So pre-baking all of those options would have been nearly impossible.

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New NVIDIA Updates for Unreal Engine Developers

Nvidia

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.