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Oleksandr Koshlo (Render Architect, Massive Entertainment - A Ubisoft Studio)
Location: Room 3016, West Hall
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass - Get your pass now!
Topic: Programming
Format: Session
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: Intermediate
How do you achieve high fidelity lighting with ray tracing, while maintaining high performance target in an expansive world such as the world of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora? It requires a good implementation of ray tracing pipeline at multiple levels. This session describes BVH and material management part. The talk shows in detail two different acceleration structure implementations: a custom one used on consoles, and a DXR-based one for PC platforms. It highlights advantages and tradeoffs available with a custom approach, and tackles both common and unique challenges of each implementation, and a range of possible optimizations. The second part talks about "average" material representation, and how Snowdrop handles calculating the average for artist-authored materials, often dependent on runtime inputs.
Attendees will learn about possible approaches for ray tracing scene management for large-scale open worlds, and low-level building blocks of a custom ray tracing implementation
Intermediate and advanced graphics programmers, engine programmers, people interested in real time ray tracing. Basic knowledge of DXR API can be beneficial, but is not required.
