And as a comparison here is the an image of the same scene rendered in Blender. Here the settings have been set such that they match my renderer. This makes it possible to test my renderer against Blender. This image took about 30 seconds to render in Blender. #Vulkan #Graphics #Gamedev #Blender

When building a renderer it is important to be able to compare results with some kind of ground truth. For my own Vulkan raytracer. I have made it such that I can export glTF scenes from blender and load those into my framework. With lights and camera. Here is a video of a test scene I just setup.

Work on my #Vulkan raytracing framework continues. I am currently working on an offline rendering mode, for generating ground truth images, which I can compare my realtime techniques on. The goal being to test the effect of importance sampling and filtering/denoising for raytracing in games.

During #globalgamejam. I spent my refactoring up my #vulkan raytracing renderer and tried to implement bubble shading. I like what I got done in that time. Just look at these colors. It isn't exactly a bubble, more like oily glass, but I learned a lot from doing it.

And it still works correctly in rasterization mode. It has been a pain to get these to work together using (almost) the same memory layout. Now I just need to access the right material data in the raytracing shaders 😁 #graphics #Vulkan #gamedev

I finally have Hardware accelerated raytracing running in my own Vulkan framework. It might be with debug colors and the image is upside down, but I can't be happier. I have spent most of the holiday break learning how to do this and it is finally here.

I have 2 different exams in 2 days plus two reports before the end of the year. I am at PEAK, quit university and just make video games energy right now. This always happens during exam season.