NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). SER is a performance optimization that unlocks the potential for better ray and memory coherency in ray tracing shaders and thus increased shading efficiency. Shading divergence is a long-standing problem in ray tracing. With increasingly complex renderer…
]]>Custom NVIDIA RTX branches for Unreal Engine 4 (RTX-Dev) may substantially help your development effort by providing enhanced compatibility with certain types of common content. While UE4 has substantially improved its rendering capabilities with ray tracing, ray tracing effects often have expectations on how the scene was constructed. Today, real-time content, such as games…
]]>Roughly five months ago, we introduced you to the new ray tracing support (via DirectX Raytracing) in the 4.22 release of Unreal Engine. Recently, Epic Games released version 4.23 which brings a number of upgrades for those working with ray tracing. Even better, many of these new and improved features, such as enhancements to performance, quality, and stability, require no direct user effort.
]]>Epic Games is adding ‘Early Access’ support for ray tracing through the DirectX Raytracing API (DXR) to Unreal Engine with the pending release of Unreal Engine 4.22. Demos dating back to GDC 2018 show impressive ray tracing results using DXR. However, UE 4.22 integrates ray tracing support into the mainline branch, making ray tracing available to the wider world. While 4.22 is an early release…
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