{"id":91072,"date":"2019-03-22T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T12:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamefromscratch.com\/post.aspx?id=a0fb61cc-6822-49be-97b1-4e419a6297b2"},"modified":"2019-03-22T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T12:39:41","slug":"real-time-raytracing-at-gdc-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/22\/real-time-raytracing-at-gdc-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-Time RayTracing At GDC 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

At GDC 2018, Microsoft unveiled DXR<\/a>, or Direct X 12 Raytracing, an SDK enabling real-time raytracing, followed closely by NVIDIA announcing hardware support.  This year at GDC 2019, those technologies have come of age, with major raytracing support coming from 3 major game engine manufacturers.  Additionally NVIDIA have announced some potentially game changing news as well.  Let\u2019s break down the announcements and demonstrations one by one.<\/p>\n

CryTek<\/a><\/p>\n

CryTek started the raytracing announcements off with their amazing real time demo Neon Noir<\/a>.  Even more impressive, it was done using an AMD card without real-time raytracing support!  Unfortunately, the demo was never released to the public.<\/p>\n

Unity<\/a><\/p>\n

Unity showed an impressive demo Reality vs Illusion<\/a> which intercuts real world footage and real time raytraced BWM footage that is nearly impossible to discern the difference.  Unity\u2019s technology is sadly several months from being available in a future HDRP release.<\/p>\n

Unreal Engine<\/a><\/p>\n

Unreal is the closest with their real time raytracing implementation, in fact it\u2019s available now in Unreal Engine 4.22.  They also had a presentation in the form of the short movie Troll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NVIDIA<\/a><\/p>\n

NVIDIA also had a real time raytracing demonstration in the form of Project Sol, Part 3<\/a>.  Their announcement may have been the most significant however, as they announced that DXR driver support will be shipping in April to older generation NVIDIA GPUs, such as the 1060\/1070 and 1080 cards.<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KjE6Iv2DssU&w=877&h=493]<\/p>\n

GameDev News<\/a><\/span> 3D<\/a> Engine<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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At GDC 2018, Microsoft unveiled DXR, or Direct X 12 Raytracing, an SDK enabling real-time raytracing, followed closely by NVIDIA announcing hardware support.  This year at GDC 2019, those technologies have come of age, with major raytracing support coming from 3 major game engine manufacturers.  Additionally NVIDIA have announced some potentially game changing news as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-91072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-development","tag-gamedev-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}