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New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

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Easier ray-tracing integration for games with Kickstart RT In 2018, NVIDIA Turing architecture changed the game with real-time ray tracing. This scene highlights ray tracing, global illumination, ambient occlusion, and ray traced shadows, enabled through KickStart SDK. Unreal Engine 4.27

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NVIDIA at GDC 2021: RTX and AI Sees New Platforms, New Development Tools, New Updates, and a New SDK

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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. Check out GDC 2021 announcements, video sessions, and game development demos on the NVIDIA at GDC Official Webpage.

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Game Development – New Resources from GTC 21

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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. Demos RTX Technology Showcase Experience the latest NVIDIA RTX technologies available in Unreal Engine 4. All this can now be captured in real-time with RTXDI.

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

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In 2018, NVIDIA launched our RTX technology alongside a stunning Star Wars demo called Reflections , which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. Enabling this vision were RTX GPUs with dedicated cores for ray tracing and AI, as well as new hardware capabilities for increased geometric detail and texture streaming.

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Try NVIDIA Game Development SDKs in the Interactive RTX Technology Showcase

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Today, NVIDIA released RTX Technology Showcase – an interactive demo built from NVIDIA’s RTX Unreal Engine 4.26 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. Branch (NvRTX).

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Q&A: Looking Back to When 1997’s Quake II Got a Path Tracing Update

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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. We didn’t choose Quake II , it chose us.

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Generative AI Sparks Life into Virtual Characters with NVIDIA ACE for Games

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Game developers are exploring how these technologies impact 2D and 3D content-creation pipelines during production. The scene is rendered using RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) for ray-traced lighting and shadows alongside NVIDIA DLSS 3 for maximum performance. Game developers are exploring how these technologies impact 2D and.

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