ompf2.com

I think that many of the ideas expressed here several years ago could be now revisited with the new RTX in mind. For example, the complexity level reached by rasterizazion engines is something that has been discussed a lot recently. Or the hybrid approach that I considered in the opening message see...

Honestly, I was expecting more discussion here related to the new RTX tech: game development aside, is there some interest among the offline rendering community? I suppose that even while the first iteration might not offer much in this regard (perhaps still too dependent upon rasterization?) the fu...

I'm very happy with all these news: after all, would have ever changed the market without a widely adopted api supporting RT in a incremental way? I don't think so. I hope that the next few years will show the same pattern we've seen with vertex/fragment shaders. It was 20 years ago or so that I've ...

In my personal raytracer I've implemented normal maps. I don't really remember why those instead than bump maps (at the time I used to have PBRT as inspiration), but perhaps this is due to the fact that NP were mentioned everywhere on the forum I used to attend for proramming advices (gamedev.net).

Pretty cool! Do you write entire renderer from scratch or you base on some other open code? I know how you feel :D Unlukily I had to give it up a few years ago, after real life demands limited my time and energy up to the point that I was no longer able to keep working on spare time projects. Too b...

I think that normal mapping is really useful. Back when I still had the time to have fun in working on my raytracer, implementing NM was easy enought and offered nice results.

Okay, I see your point. And I believe many others would share you opinion with you if we ask. But I can think of some scenarios where I see conditionals useful. ⋅ Depending on command line options you can select different versions of the objects to be rendered (high-res/low-res). ⋅&n...

For the white dots: I had similar issues and then I discovered a lot of NaN and INF in the calculations (caused by the mesh imported I was using a the time).

Why do everyone keep talking about path tracing? There is a wide range of algos with a different tradeoff between quality and speed. Couldn't a first step towards RT GI make use of one of them?

In the end technologies like path-tracing may not be necessary at all for games I agree that it is amazing the quality reached by games nowadays and that there is still room for improvements. But what about reflections (wich are important for many surfaces)? In racing games you usually have the env...