Ray tracing and path tracing are two of the most exciting and demanding dynamic lighting techniques available to gamers and game developers in 2024. They both represent a massive leap in realism over ...

If you've been paying attention to the launches of the new generation of game consoles, you've probably heard talk of ray tracing. Ray tracing is a rendering technique for photorealistic graphics by ...

Prolific modder Massihancer is back at it again, this time tinkering with the first Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) tech demos. Unreal's latest engine, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) was recently unleashed upon the ...

Real-time path tracing, the next stage of game rendering, is on the horizon, Nvidia says. But wait--didn't RTX just get here? So what is path tracing, how is it different from ray tracing, and why ...

Every few years, it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games look ever more realistic. Over the decades, we've had shaders, tessellation, shadow mapping, ray ...

The choice between Path tracing and Ray tracing has become a necessary discussion about graphics among gaming enthusiasts. Both offer compelling advancements in visual fidelity. However, their ...

Ray tracing and path tracing sound similar -- and technically, they are. Both methods simulate how light travels in a 3D environment, but the way they work and the results they produce are completely ...

Path tracing requires powerful hardware to run, even with tools like DLSS and Frame Generation. Rendering fully path-traced environments shouldn't be possible yet, but here we are - with the ...

When we talk next-generation graphics one of the things we oftentimes don't talk about are the tools and middleware suites that make it possible for the term “next-gen” to be applied to the entity ...

If you thought real-time ray-tracing effects in games like shadows or reflections were taxing on GPU hardware, you probably haven't seen path-tracing in action. Path tracing essentially makes all ...