Realtime GI Part2

[duke2]

As with previous methods, there is a lot of cheating involved but it looks great so who cares!

http://levelofdetail.wordpress.com/2...t-shadow-maps/

[dbuchhofer]

Can't see the video to compare (Youtube, meh.) but I've been playing with this one recently http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~ritschel/Papers/SSDO.pdf

Nothing much to show yet, still muddling about. shaders are a pain for me still

Do you do much realtime work George?

[Paul Oblomov]

I must say my jaw dropped when I saw this (nvidia only):

http://code.google.com/p/tokaspt/

The idea behind this:

http://kevinbeason.com/smallpt/

P.S. It is realtime PPT. Somehow limited etc... but nevertheless.
On my gtx280

[pixelstudio]

This looks awsome!

A bit of a off topic question, but i'm searching a long time for a 3D engine where i can do stuff like this, and also use for production, so has so te able to do fancy stuff but also has to be easy createable from 3dsmax.. perhpas some of you have a good idea?

i have tried XNA,Blade3D
Still am waiting for unity to come with a windows version...

...

Cheers

[duke2]

This looks awsome!

A bit of a off topic question, but i'm searching a long time for a 3D engine where i can do stuff like this, and also use for production, so has so te able to do fancy stuff but also has to be easy createable from 3dsmax.. perhpas some of you have a good idea?

i have tried XNA,Blade3D
Still am waiting for unity to come with a windows version...

...

Cheers

Was about to say - Unity. Wait till the end of the month (GDC), that's when it will be out.

[duke2]

Can't see the video to compare (Youtube, meh.) but I've been playing with this one recently http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~ritschel/Papers/SSDO.pdf

Nothing much to show yet, still muddling about. shaders are a pain for me still

Do you do much realtime work George?

I made art for a few indie games in my previous life, as well as most of the art for empiresmod (for HL2). I'm still incredibly interested in the technology and dabble every now and then, but on the art side rather than coding (although i'm probably more interested in the coding/technical side of things even though i can't do it).

[Neilg]

I must say my jaw dropped when I saw this (nvidia only):

http://code.google.com/p/tokaspt/

How on earth do you get this to run? I downloaded the .rar and it's not doing anything, just closes. Do I need to compile it or is that talking about some other version?

[Paul Oblomov]

Well I just run it. That's it.

I have win7 + 181.71 driver = it must be me saying it doesn't work!

[toby™]

How on earth do you get this to run? I downloaded the .rar and it's not doing anything, just closes. Do I need to compile it or is that talking about some other version?

It seems that you'll need CUDA 2.1 for this.

"Requires CUDA 2.1 to compile and run. ..."
--> http://code.google.com/p/tokaspt/

As far as I understood this, after a short sneak peak on this, CUDA is a display driver, allowing to calculate multiple tasks at the same time.
--> http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html
--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA

[Neilg]

I assumed that was some ridiculous programming language thing and only related to the source code version :3