Wicked Engine Gets DX12 And Vulkan Raytracing Support

Wicked Engine Gets DX12 And Vulkan Raytracing Support

<div><p>The open source cross platform C++ powered game engine <a href="https://github.com/turanszkij/WickedEngine">Wicked Engine</a>, just got raytracing and path tracing support for both DX12 and Vulkan renderers.&nbsp; Available as both a low level framework for building your own game engine, or as a fully capable engine on it’s own, Wicked Engine boosts the following features:</p>
<ul>
<li>DirectX 11, DirectX 12 &amp; Vulkan renderers</li>
<li>Image rendering,animation : 2D,3D space</li>
<li>Font rendering (True Type)</li>
<li>Networking (UDP)</li>
<li>meshes,objects,armatures,animation,materials,lights,hit-spheres,wind,world info,dynamic cameras,ribbon trails,particle systems</li>
<li>3D mesh rendering</li>
<li>Skeletal animation</li>
<li>Physically based materials</li>
<li>Animated texturing</li>
<li>Normal mapping</li>
<li>Displacement mapping</li>
<li>Parallax occlusion mapping</li>
<li>Real time planar reflections</li>
<li>Cube map reflections (static and real time)</li>
<li>Refractions (screen space, blurred)</li>
<li>Interactive Water</li>
<li>Gaussian Blur</li>
<li>Bloom</li>
<li>Edge outline</li>
<li>Motion Blur</li>
<li>Lens Flare</li>
<li>Light shafts</li>
<li>Bokeh Depth of Field</li>
<li>Chromatic aberration</li>
<li>Multithreaded rendering</li>
<li>Tessellation (silhouette smoothing, displacement mapping)</li>
<li>GPU-based particles (emit from point, mesh, animated mesh)</li>
<li>Soft particles</li>
<li>Hair particle systems (grass/vegetation)</li>
<li>Instanced rendering</li>
<li>MSAA (Forward rendering only)</li>
<li>FXAA</li>
<li>TAA (Temporal Antialiasing)</li>
<li>Supersampling</li>
<li>Deferred shading</li>
<li>Directional lights + cascaded shadow maps</li>
<li>Spotlights + shadow maps</li>
<li>Point lights + shadow cubemaps</li>
<li>Soft shadows (PCF)</li>
<li>BULLET Physics: rigid body, soft body</li>
<li>3D Audio (Xaudio2)</li>
<li>Input: keyboard, mouse, controller (rawinput, xinput), touch</li>
<li>Controller feedback (vibration, LED)</li>
<li>Backlog: log,input,scripting</li>
<li>Gamma correct, HDR rendering</li>
<li>Resource Manager</li>
<li>Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO, HBAO, MSAO)</li>
<li>Screen Space Reflections</li>
<li>Skin shader (Subsurface scattering)</li>
<li>Stencil layering</li>
<li>Deferred decals</li>
<li>Forward decals</li>
<li>Color Grading</li>
<li>Sharpen filter</li>
<li>Eye adaption</li>
<li>Lua Scripting</li>
<li>Dynamic environment mapping</li>
<li>Impostor system</li>
<li>Tiled forward (Forward+) rendering (+2.5D culling)</li>
<li>Tiled deferred rendering</li>
<li>Occlusion culling with GPU queries</li>
<li>Texture atlas packing</li>
<li>Tiled decals</li>
<li>Area lights: Sphere, Disc, Rectangle, Tube</li>
<li>Frame Profiler</li>
<li>Voxel Global Illumination</li>
<li>Huge draw distance support with reversed Z-buffer</li>
<li>Force Fields GPU simulation</li>
<li>Particle – Depth Buffer collisions</li>
<li>Ocean simulation (FFT)</li>
<li>Translucent shadows</li>
<li>Refraction caustics</li>
<li>Local parallax-corrected environment maps</li>
<li>Volumetric light scattering</li>
<li>Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Fluid Simulation</li>
<li>Ray tracing, path tracing (on GPU)</li>
<li>Entity-Component System (Data oriented design)</li>
<li>Lightmap baking (with GPU path tracing)</li>
<li>Job system</li>
<li>Inverse Kinematics</li>
<li>Springs</li>
<li>Terrain Rendering (material blending)</li>
</ul>
<p>Wicked Engine is open source under the MIT license is and is available <a href="https://github.com/turanszkij/WickedEngine">here on GitHub</a>.&nbsp; You can learn more about Wicked Engine in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi4sDIaIcFo">video</a> below.</p>
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