Real-time path tracing engine

[Kali]

Check this:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/pXZ33YoKu9w&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/pXZ33YoKu9w&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>


And this link: http://raytracey.blogspot.com.ar/

[Rathinagiri]

Cool!

[slon_ru]

Cool. I want this!

[Pauldelbrot]

Holy.

Crap.

The videogame polygon budget is dead. Long live the videogame polygon budget. Did you see the part about halfway through? Half-Life 3 could show us a Combine-homeworld City 01 that goes on forever like the mind-city at the end of Inception if it wanted to.

[hobold]

Beware, Brigade currently runs on the highest end Nvidia hardware. And since Moore's Law no longer really holds since the Pentium 4 days (*), it may take literally forever until that kind of engine can run on our mobile phones. Having said that, I am also a believer in realtime raytracing. I am just not convinced that tracing ever more rays is the one true way of beating rasterization.



* We transitioned from an exponential phase into a linear phase around the inflection point of a saturation curve, and from here we will "soon" transition into a final phase of ever slower asymptotical saturation.

[elphinstone]

I believe real-time raytracing for games will come in 8-10 years. We could have enough computing power on the best computers in 2-3 years, on every PC in 5-6, but we'll have to wait until the next generation of consoles (PS5, XBOX.. ehm... 1440) for games using these techniques. I cannot see how a game producer could develop two different engines for one game.

But I hope some brave minor team can publish something in the next 5 years!

[kram1032]

Holy.

Crap.

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