The Blender Foundation has released the latest version of Blender. Blender 2.81 offers sculpting tools overhaul, support for Nvidia RTX ray tracing in cycles, Intel Open Image denoising, and user interface improvements. Read more… … [Read more...] about Remesh your models in two new ways with Blender 2.81
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Realtime: Adshir’s LocalRay is 100% organic ray tracing
New tech from rendering startup tested with and against Embree—it’s all native now. Regular readers will recall that we have been following Adshir’s developments for a few years now. Each time we see them, they have made significant advances. Our last encounter was at Siggraph in LA, and we wrote all about that here. At a private showing, they demonstrated realtime, 4K ray … [Read more...] about Realtime: Adshir’s LocalRay is 100% organic ray tracing
Ray tracing will be unavoidable in 2020
PCs, consoles, and mobile devices will show the rays. Ray tracing has been used in games for some time, but as baked in images. Ray tracing, even at 30 fps, is a computational challenge that has befuddled and frustrated hardware and software engineers for decades. With clever algorithms, Moore’s Law, and dogged perseverance, computer graphics companies have pushed the … [Read more...] about Ray tracing will be unavoidable in 2020
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Ray tracing optimization and new ‘Chaos’ Physics and Destruction System are now available. Like previous updates, Unreal Engine's latest release has arrived with a long list of the updates. Epic says that this release includes 192 improvements submitted by the very active community of Unreal Engine developers on GitHub. At the Game Developer Conference, Epic revealed new … [Read more...] about Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Nvidia brings ray tracing and AI to Siggraph again
One year later, the ecosystem has exploded. This year at Siggraph, Nvidia showed a lineup of RTX Studio Laptops and Mobile Workstations that the company said were purpose-built for creators, and coming from every major OEM—10 new designs from Dell, HP, Lenovo and Boxx, raising the number of RTX Studio models to 27. Various ISVs were represented in demos including Adobe, … [Read more...] about Nvidia brings ray tracing and AI to Siggraph again