GART: Games and Applications using RayTracing

[techuse]

Oooh, shiny. Also proves my pet peeve I have with UE5. Yeah, sure, unlimited polys are neat, and higher poly models for grass and trees are really needed because they often stick out like a sore thumb in today's games. But are unlimited polys really needed? Nah, look at the UE4 scene and that marbles demo, lighting and good art assets sit there and make more of an impact than unlimited polys do. Mmmm, sharp indirect lighting, soooo good.

I find the UE5 demo to be more impressive than the above 3.

 

[London Geezer]

Oooh, shiny. Also proves my pet peeve I have with UE5. Yeah, sure, unlimited polys are neat, and higher poly models for grass and trees are really needed because they often stick out like a sore thumb in today's games. But are unlimited polys really needed? Nah, look at the UE4 scene and that marbles demo, lighting and good art assets sit there and make more of an impact than unlimited polys do. Mmmm, sharp indirect lighting, soooo good.

But UE5 isn't about 'unlimited polys'. It uses a system where effectively you can use very high poly meshes and they are streamed and culled in an efficient way so that you do not see polygon edges. And the above demos have no visible polygon edges that I can see, and for all we know this is achieved in a less efficient way than UE5 - we don't know this. So I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.

 

[dorf]

OTOY is teasing Brigade, their real-time path tracer for video games running at 60fps on a 2080Ti:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1286145833147088896

In the comments below they mention it's coming to Unity and Unreal.

 

[cheapchips]

OTOY is teasing Brigade, their real-time path tracer for video games running at 60fps on a 2080Ti:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1286145833147088896

In the comments below they mention it's coming to Unity and Unreal.

I set the box videos to 1080p and video was still really noisy? Too noisy for games at any rate. Was that just something going on with my PC?

 

[Malo]

I set the box videos to 1080p and video was still really noisy? Too noisy for games at any rate. Was that just something going on with my PC?

Not just your PC, and there was clearly delayed de-noising and lighting updates as well. It is full path tracing though so it's quite fast for what its doing.

 

[Davros]

Halo 3 with Reshade Ray Tracing

 

[dorf]

Ray traced caustics in UE4:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1291441373758054400

The clip is from a UE4 ray tracing webinar held by Nvidia earlier this week. RTXGI was also shown shortly with emissive lighting as a built-in feature in addition to GI.

 

[iroboto]

Ray traced caustics in UE4:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1291441373758054400

The clip is from a UE4 ray tracing webinar held by Nvidia earlier this week. RTXGI was also shown shortly with emissive lighting as a built-in feature in addition to GI.

this is beast

 

[SlmDnk]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rAlPxE

 

[Deleted member 2197]

Crysis Remastered gets a new September release date
August 21, 2020

This latest trailer does a much better job of showing off where the improvements are, confirming ray-traced reflections on water surfaces, all-new textures with up to 8K resolution, improved SVOGI Global Illumination, new depth of field techniques and more.
...
Crysis Remastered is now coming to PC, Xbox One and PS4 on the 18th of September. On PC, the game will include hardware-accelerated ray-tracing for those using Nvidia RTX graphics and it will also support DLSS. On consoles, Crytek is using a software-based ray-tracing solution to bring ray-traced reflections to the game on Xbox One X and PS4 Pro.

https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/crysis-remastered-gets-a-new-september-release-date/

 

[milk]

Crysis Remastered gets a new September release date
August 21, 2020

https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/crysis-remastered-gets-a-new-september-release-date/

Better, but why so short though?

 

[JoeJ]

Is it ensured Crysis uses RTX (if available) at all? Or is it software RT like in Noir on any GPU?

 

[dorf]

Is it ensured Crysis uses RTX (if available) at all? Or is it software RT like in Noir on any GPU?

Hardware-based ray tracing according to this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1296821256139005952

I don't know who DF is quoting here, would assume Crytek.

edit: it's from here

https://www.crytek.com/news/crytek-announces-release-date-for-crysis-remastered

 

[DavidGraham]

Crytek already stated they will update their software based method to support RTX acceleration, so it appears they have delivered on that promise.

 

[dorf]

RTXGI is being shown in a live stream right now

 

[dorf]

RTXGI is being shown in a live stream right now

Cant edit my post from yesterday but here's the whole stream:

The caustics are pretty amazing! Shown in the last ~40min of the video.

 

[jlippo]

Cant edit my post from yesterday but here's the whole stream:

The caustics are pretty amazing! Shown in the last ~40min of the video.

Yup, very impressive.
Cannot wait to see a old school mirror light puzzles in games using it.

The water simulation plugin they mentioned during the water caustics is UIWS and free this month.
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/uiws-unified-interactive-water-system

 

[DavidGraham]

The Witcher 3 will get the RTX treatment in a new next gen version.


https://thewitcher.com/en/news/32792/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-is-coming-to-the-next-generation

 

[Davros]

Weve got crysis remade with rtx now the witcher I wonder if this is going to be a trend?

 

[London Geezer]

The Witcher 3 will get the RTX treatment in a new next gen version.


https://thewitcher.com/en/news/32792/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-is-coming-to-the-next-generation

I wonder what flavour RT this will be? GI? Reflections?