Epic Games Demonstrates Real-Time Ray Tracing With Star Wars

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/22/2018 07:43 AM | source: | 29 comment(s)

Continuing the theme from the Game Developers Conference this year, Epic Games in collaboration with ILMxLAB and NVIDIA are showing off real-time ray tracing in the Unreal 4 engine. The video is using Microsoft’s new DXR framework and NVIDIA RTX technology for Volta GPUs, powered by Microsoft's DirectX Ray Tracing API, or DXR.

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fantaskarsef
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#5530356 Posted on: 03/22/2018 08:17 AM

Looks cool

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#5530366 Posted on: 03/22/2018 09:00 AM

Looks very cool indeed.

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#5530390 Posted on: 03/22/2018 10:17 AM

So what is it going to cost us to use this new facny tech, let me guess, a new video card by any chance, in the region of say £1000. lol

Yes, i have become somewhat cyinical of it all. lol

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#5530403 Posted on: 03/22/2018 10:52 AM

Phasma is a pretty perfect example of a star wars character to test ray tracing on hahaha..

I can't help but take this as shots fired at EA.

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#5530405 Posted on: 03/22/2018 10:56 AM

I find the special effects and the scenario much better than the latest movies

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