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nvpro-samples/vk_raytracing_tutorial_KHR: Ray tracing examples and tutorials using VK_KHR_ray_tracing
NVIDIA Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorials
The focus of this repository and the provided code is to showcase a basic integration of ray tracing and ray traversal within an existing Vulkan sample, using the VK_KHR_acceleration_structure, VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline and VK_KHR_ray_query extensions.
To be able to compile and run those examples, please follow the setup instructions. Find more over nvpro-samples setup at: https://github.com/nvpro-samples/build_all.
The first tutorial starts from a very simple Vulkan application. It loads a OBJ file and uses the rasterizer to render it. The tutorial then adds, step-by-step, all that is needed to be able to ray trace the scene.
All other tutorials start from the end of the first ray tracing tutorial and also provide step-by-step instructions to modify and add methods and functions for that extra section.
Tutorial Details Any Hit Shader
Implements transparent materials by adding a new shader to the Hit group and using the material information to discard hits over time. Adds an anyhit (.ahit) shader to the ray tracing pipeline. Creates simple transparency by randomly letting the ray hit or not. Jitter Camera
Anti-aliases the image by accumulating small variations of rays over time. Generates random ray directions. Read/write/accumulates the final image. Thousands of Objects
The current example allocates memory for each object, each of which has several buffers. This shows how to get around Vulkan's limits on the total number of memory allocations by using a memory allocator. Extends the limit of 4096 memory allocations. Uses these memory allocators: DMA, VMA. Reflections
Reflections can be implemented by shooting new rays from the closest hit shader, or by iteratively shooting them from the raygen shader. This example shows the limitations and differences of these implementations. Calls traceRayEXT() from the closest hit shader (recursive). Adds more data to the ray payload to continue the ray from the raygen shader. Multiple Closest Hits Shader and Shader Records
Explains how to add more closest hit shaders, choose which instance uses which shader, add data per SBT that can be retrieved in the shader, and more. One closest hit shader per object. Sharing closest hit shaders for some objects. Passing a shader record to the closest hit shader. Animation
This tutorial shows how animating the transformation matrices of the instances (TLAS) and animating the vertices of an object (BLAS) in a compute shader could be done. Refitting top level acceleration structures. Refitting bottom level acceleration structures. Intersection Shader
Adds thousands of implicit primitives and uses an intersection shader to render spheres and cubes. Explains what is needed to get procedural hit group working. Intersection Shaders. Sphere intersection. Axis aligned bounding box intersection. Callable Shader
Replacing if/else by callable shaders. The code to execute the lighting is done in separate callable shaders instead of being part of the main code. Adding multiple callable shaders. Calling ExecuteCallableEXT from the closest hit shader. Ray Query
Invokes ray intersection queries directly from the fragment shader to cast shadow rays. Ray tracing directly from the fragment shader. glTF Scene
Instead of loading separate OBJ objects, the example was modified to load glTF scene files containing multiple objects. This example is not about shading, but using more complex data than OBJ. However, it also shows a basic path tracer implementation. Advance
An example combining most of the above samples in a single application. Trace Rays Indirect
Teaches the use of vkCmdTraceRaysIndirectKHR, which sources width/height/depth from a buffer. As a use case, we add lanterns to the scene and use a compute shader to calculate scissor rectangles for each of them. AO Raytracing
This extension to the tutorial is showing how G-Buffers from the fragment shader, can be used in a compute shader to cast ambient occlusion rays using ray queries (GLSL_EXT_ray_query). Specialization Constants
Showing how to use specialization constant and using interactively different specialization. Advanced Compilation
Shows how to create reusable pipeline libraries and compile pipelines on multiple threads. Motion Blur
Using vertex motion and instance motion: matrix and SRT.
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