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How would Space Engine look if everything was ray traced?

05 Apr 2022 09:01

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How would Space Engine look if everything was ray traced?

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How would Space Engine look if everything was ray traced?

05 Apr 2022 13:39

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Re: How would Space Engine look if everything was ray traced?

23 Apr 2022 14:12

Is hardware ray tracing even possible under OpenGL? It's pretty pointless to push something that the underlying platform doesn't even facilitate. 
But I guess a team should then be hired to convert all API calls to Vulkan, huh?

As for the hypothetical question. I speak from no experience, but I believe this might be one of the worst candidates for an RTX conversion. Astronomy is in general largely dominated by analytical math solutions, and Space Engine is no exception. Path tracing largely relies on approximations with intelligent denoisers. Some selective use of RTX would probably be very sensible, though.
 
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Re: How would Space Engine look if everything was ray traced?

23 Apr 2022 14:19

It is not supported directly, though you can mount OpenGL in Vulkan and render that way, similar to how Crysis remaster pulled theirs off, but there is a huge performance hit even when done well.
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Re: How would Space Engine look if everything was ray traced?

03 Mar 2023 13:03

We don't need raytracing as the current lighting model is not accurate. It needs to be fixed. The lx levels are (completely) wrong.
 
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Re: How would Space Engine look if everything was ray traced?

16 Jan 2024 14:05

To give a more concrete answer in terms of expected visuals: Amazing rendering of celestial bodies was already done with a rasterization render path in a demo:



Anything related to reflections (which is also just global illumination) would look AMAZING. Especially reflections on extremely glossy materials such as fluids. 

It should be already possible doing that on the CPU without GPU with some cut corners because the hardware is probably still not fast enough for high fidelity realtime rendering, tho I am not that sure about that. ReSTIR may run fine even on CPU for some scenes.
It should be even faster with RTX and future hardware (RTX, GPU, CPU).

I don't see how it is "impossible" . It's certainly not easy to build a renderer which can do that in realtime, but it's not impossible (as the demo shows).

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