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StrEagle

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Posted: Thu, 14th Feb 2019 11:26 Post subject: Unreal Engine adds support for raytracing

Unreal Engine adds support for raytracing

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Thus far there are not many games supporting DirectX Raytracing. A new version of Unreal Engine 4 now offers support for DirectX Raytracing (DXR). Unreal Engine is a popular game development software kit from Epic and version 4.2.2 allows developers to easily incorporate raytracing capabilities into their games.

Specifically, it concerns raytracing effects for reflections, shadows, light, ambient occlusion and more. As far as current raytracing-supported games are concerned, all is rather limited. For the time being, only Battlefield V offers support for DXR as well as Metro: Exodus that launches today. With a new version of Unreal Engine 4 it should be easier for these developers to add the raytracing technique in games. The announcement does not come as a surprise, however: Epic announced the feature for Unreal Engine in November last year and already showed some images and concepts at the time.

The patch notes state:

Added ray tracing low level support.

Implemented a low level layer on top of UE DirectX 12 that provides support for DXR and allows creating and using ray tracing shaders (ray generation shaders, hit shaders, etc) to add ray tracing effects.
Added high-level ray tracing features
Rect area lights
Soft shadows
Reflections
Reflected shadows
Ambient occlusion
RTGI (real time global illumination)
Translucency
Clearcoat
IBL
Sky
Geometry types Triangle meshes
Static
Skeletal (Morph targets & Skin cache)
Niagara particles support
Texture LOD
Denoiser
Shadows, Reflections, AO
Path Tracert
Unbiased, full GI path tracer for making ground truth reference renders inside UE4.

sause: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/unreal-engine-adds-support-for-raytracing.html

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Posted: Thu, 14th Feb 2019 11:28 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

But.. wat about Unity "I like playing as the mushroom." \| My Imdb ratings \| My Best Games \| Best actors \| Best directors \| Best musicians \| Best women \| Best Shows \| Freak the Hump!

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Posted: Thu, 14th Feb 2019 11:29 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

https://docs.cryengine.com/display/CEMANUAL/Ray+Traced+Shadows CryEngine supports it, maybe not all of it though. "I like playing as the mushroom." \| My Imdb ratings \| My Best Games \| Best actors \| Best directors \| Best musicians \| Best women \| Best Shows \| Freak the Hump!

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PredOborG

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Posted: Thu, 14th Feb 2019 12:17 Post subject:

madmax17 wrote:

But.. wat about Unity Very Happy

Unity's gonna add some partial Raytracing support that sometimes works, most times fucks everything up and they will never fix it. Just like they do with every feature so far.

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Posted: Thu, 14th Feb 2019 13:47 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Don't forget completely undocumented.

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Posted: Thu, 14th Feb 2019 13:56 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

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