Physically-based GPU and CPU ray-tracer emerging on a surface

Overview

etx-tracer

Physically-based GPU and CPU ray-tracer emerging on a surface.

Features

  • Vertex Connection and Merging algorithm (CPU and GPU);
  • Full-spectral rendering in CPU integrators;
  • Heterogeneous and scattering medium rendering in path tracing integrators (CPU and GPU);
  • Volumetric Bidirectional Path Tracing integrator;
  • Variety of BSDFs:
    • basic materials - diffuse, plastic, conductor, dielectric;
    • additionaal materials - thinfilm, translucent, coating, mirror, coating;
    • generic PBR material (WIP);
  • Variety of emitters:
    • area;
    • environment map;
    • directional emitter with finite angluar size;
    • collimated area lights (lasers);
  • Spectral representation of material's properties (colors, index of refractions, etc);
  • Normal mapping (CPU only at the moment);
  • Thin-film rendering;
  • Using OptiX for GPU ray-tracing;
  • Most of the code is reused for CPU and GPU integrators.

Samples

Several renderings from the ray-tracer. Samples contains showcase for materials, volumetric data rendering, spectral rendering, participating media rendering and SDS (specular-diffuse-specular paths), which are usually tricky thing to render. As well as thin film rendering, collimated emitters, depth of field, and other effects.

More renderings could be found in my Twitter:

Bubbles in Cornell BoxVolumetric cloudRoom RefractionsLaserRing Soap BubblesDiamondsSDS

Story behind this project

This project is a fusion of several my previous projects

  • et-engine - the old game engine, which actually was used in several shipped games;
  • etx - an extension to the engine, which is used for UI;
  • metal-ray-tracer - ray-tracer based on Metal Performance Shaders;
  • and one more project is currently located in the private repository.

And the most interesting part is that private repo contains a GPU ray-tracer, which implements Vertex Connection and Merging algorithm on GPU using OptiX (alongside with other integrators, like standard path-tracing and ambient occlusion integrator, both CPU and GPU versions).

So now it is time for that hidden project to emerge on a surface. Releasing it as-is would be too embarrassing for me, because it contains a lot of hacks and code that was required "right now" to make things work. So I would try to rewrite it in a nice way, and probably write some post about it.

Project milestones:

Order is a subject to change, but here are main things to do:

  • boilerplate code for window, input handling, etc;
  • basic boilerplate code for ray-tracing;
  • simplest CPU path-tracer;
  • OptiX and GPU-related code basics;
  • additional code for ray-tracing;
  • VCM integrators (CPU and GPU);
  • cross-platform, cross-API support; ... maintaining code, adding new features.

Building

This part of the description would be updated during the development of the project, at the moment there is nothing to build here. All updates will be located here: BUILDING.md

Sponsors

This project is GitHub-sponsored by:

Links

Links to the books/papers/publications/resources I've used during the development:

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Comments
  • Last release isn't working

    Last release isn't working

    Step to reproduce:

    1. Run from exe;
    2. Select and open any of scenes from assets folder to test;
    3. Pop-up an error like this: etx

    PC spec: CPU - i3-10100f @ 3.6ghz up to 4.5 GPU - GTX 1060 6Gb RAM - 32 GB DDR4 2666 MHz

    GPU DRIVER - 471.68 NVIDIA

    opened by odil24 5
  • WASD navigations are not smoothed as well

    WASD navigations are not smoothed as well

    Step:

    1. Just opened scene;
    2. Started navigation wtih WASD buttons;
    3. Started flickering when anvigation (sometimes if you press more time any WASD buttons so it is not stopped and goaway without responsiveness).

    Here an overview video which is shown:

    https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/64298012/168615471-77fde1d4-645d-4120-8abe-a845763d5ade.mp4

    opened by odil24 3
  • Developer Preview 02

    Developer Preview 02

    Changes:

    • added Bidirectional integrator;
    • added VCM integrator;
    • added multiscattering materials;
    • added ability to save tonemapped image;
    • fixes and improvements in UI and workflow.
    opened by serhii-rieznik 0
  • Feature requests

    Feature requests

    This is my feature requests:

    • add: settings controller panel (like GLSLPathtracer did) for Camera, Lighting, Materials and etc;
    • add: progress bar of rendering (start, remaining), not need this: 815;
    • add: doesn't matter normals orientations like in Blender Cycles. Here we can see inverted faces with black surface: 814;
    • add: Sun lamp, Nishita sky model;
    • add: Blender integration would be good! ))
    opened by odil24 0
Releases(developer-preview-4)
  • developer-preview-4(Aug 8, 2022)

    Changes

    • Vertex Connection and Merging integrator working on GPU (super slow, and super long to compile);
    • OptiX denoiser could be used on GPU Path Tracer;
    • pure CUDA functions now supported (without OptiX);
    • various fixes for materials (mixture BRDF works on GPU);
    • more test assets included.
    Source code(tar.gz)
    Source code(zip)
    developer-preview-4.zip(36.95 MB)
  • developer-preview-3(May 15, 2022)

    Changes

    • GPU rendering with OptiX (unidirectional path tracing only now);
    • complex Fresnel coefficients (general form);
    • thin film rendering on top of all materials (with reflections);
    • performance improvements;
    • more samples added to assets;
    • atmosphere integrator (produces sky environment images).
    Source code(tar.gz)
    Source code(zip)
    developer-preview-3.zip(27.89 MB)
  • developer-preview-2(Feb 20, 2022)

  • develer-preview-01(Feb 6, 2022)

    The very a first developer preview or etx-tracer:

    • basic UI and controls;
    • is possible to open .obj files, but materials (.mtl file) have to be adjusted (by default all materials will be diffuse);
    • package includes sample scenes (json files), but exact scene format is still to be designed;
    • only CPU path tracing is included into this release.
    Source code(tar.gz)
    Source code(zip)
    developer-preview-01.zip(18.52 MB)
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