Project Sol: A Real-Time Ray-Tracing Cinematic Scene Powered by NVIDIA RTX 

What do you mean, it's not like every game used lens flare and God Rays , oh no wait...

god rays are fine, they actually look good at least, but lens flares are just pure stupidity

Hey as long as they don't go crazy with bloom again, I think we'll be ok.

Man i remember back when motion blur was a thing

Now that we have Physically based materials, it should be okay. Yeah, we'll probably have a lot of mirrors and metals, but that's better than having plastic materials everywhere ^^

some heavy raytraced renders can take even days to render...so its so good for everyone that they bring RT raytracing cards now..honestly I expected that realtime raytraced graphics would be possible only in like 10-15 years and here we are...once again tech progression is surprisingly fast.

:D I remember it on Amiga 500, not even had an FPU and that it took what felt like forever to make the picture render

I used to play around with Imagine on my old Amiga 500 when I was a kid. I remember thinking that making Babylon 5 must have been work of epic proportions.

hey old Amiga users. Remember Imagine, that one ray tracer that got given away free on... Amiga Format was it? My god It's so long ago I forget. I followed the tutorial in the magazine and made an underwater scene with a shark. It took 3 days to render and was really small like 320x240. I worked on that scene for weeks and eventually did a super high res 1024x768 hehe render that took a whole week of rendering on an A500 with 1mb ram. It looked awful but I loved it. Now here's the kicker. The card that's running this is BILLIONS of times faster than that Amiga. How about that for a speed bump!

Wow. I remember as a kid looking through magazines thinking the Amiga was the coolest PC. That Tutankhamen picture was bad ass. I had a VIC 20 and then a Commodore 64.

Iron man meets starcraft2

Jajajja

The traced reflections were pretty low quality. I bet it's still demanding AF.

Tin Nguyen Crysis 3 cinematics had in-game graphics. DICE also uses real time rendered trailers, and many others. I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN, but ur still very far from it,.dont forget that cinematics are also always getting better, they still arent photo realistic, unless you want a super.high budget movie level of detail in real time in your simple GPU xD

The demos were rendered with 2 of the new Quadro cards. Each are $10,000. Wait a bit more.

You mean in 5 years

If you think of the most graphically advanced game out there, Hollywood CGI or even animated renders are probably using 1000-5000x as much computing power per frame as the Game your playing.. We are so far of. But we don't necessarily need that much power to actually reach the Uncanny Valley in the first place, unless Games start using really advanced physics simulations.

Fit4EPICness 144

360p

mega oof

144p or nothing.

You absolute swine lol

Nvidia: Become IronCraft

I'm the android sent by nvidia.

To become human they need conscience. Not in this century.

That one still look's awesome.

I literally posted almost posted the same thing on there other video. :)

Bobby Hunter yay haha glad im not the only one who thought abt sc2!

i thought exactly the same..nvidia stealing concepts again

yeah the first I thought was Starcraft II as well! It seems back to eight years ago! Raynor: Just like the old times.

i agree, in games this is done by cheating with shaders, but it gives another atmosphere of immersion

Ray-tracing has the biggest benefit in lighting (and indeed this is the focus of all the hybrid demos we've seen).

lighting, yes. but i actually think the biggest obstacle right now is facial animation. maybe these days something can be done like la noire since we've progressed a lot since then, but i feel like it'd still be uncanny valley

ziPnAsty I agree with you (as do a few people in the graphics development world). It should also be pointed out that the real time ray tracing presented by NVIDIA is BVH based, it doesn't scale for massive areas, works best with small or indoor scenes, so ray-tracing still isn't perfect. The subtleties of facial animation and human motion are the next thing to tackle, drag everything out of the uncanny valley for gold.

nonetheless, this is still a massive leap. lighting can look as good as it wants, with the 4k textures and the billions of polygons per model. but if its animated poorly its all useless. id rather have last gen lighting with next gens animations

How do I know, that you are not a deviant?

@@murto49 I regularly perform system diagnostics and send reports to nvidia. There is only a 0.69% chance that my system files can be corrupted, according to my cpu's calculations.

This sentense is lie

LOL

@@ConnorRTX You cloned me...

Naw. It's the Shick Hydro Man. He needed work after not getting to go to another convention: twinfinite.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016-12-02.jpg

nah, its Pepsi man 2

He is coming to save us :O

no, this is clearly Twitch based on that purple coloured suit and immature behaviour :)

No this is Pepsi man

but great lighting is way more useless with bad models and bad textures than great textures on great models with a bad lighting. At least in my opinion

To provide an opinionated counterpoint, I personally think great lighting gives a sense of perspective, volume, and atmosphere that textures cannot ever provide. A badly lit scene is objectively worse to navigate than a well lit one.

Kryyss X guhu guhu the last of us guhu guhu

agree. However, textures provide you with the feel of reality. You get to believe what you're looking at. Anyway, today we have all in one anyway :D

I guess you don't have to wait long :)

I think it's very useful for sandbox games, mechanics in game and procedural map generation in games.

John theux Woosh.

There is already a mod for that called *SEUS*. Minecraft-like games are perfect for raytracing - big-voxel-like structures, dynamic lighting, dynamic environments, unpredictability etc.

Kaz whoooooosh

Ye me too! :D

Dude I was thinking the same thing lol

Not to be that one guy but it's "My name is Connor. I'm the android sent by Cyberlife"

Spirit Outcast oh woops

My name is Cyberlife, The Connor sent by Android.

@@Sm00thieK Nah bruh, a good game with good gameplay, great graphics, and an annoying community. But how would you know you're just a normie who follows every other kid who calls a game bad for the sake of trying to look cool in front of his friends without actually seeing gameplay or actually playing the game because they can't formulate their own opinion sensibly. :)

Crosshairs _ SUPER S U C C

I put it away

Well said mate!

What?

QuantumBraced I don't think real-time ray tracing will be doable in 4K in this generation. The calculations required for that are incredibly heavily so even with their tricks to speed it up I don't expect anything with the quality of this video to run much faster than 30fps at 1080p. Unless they only use ray tracing for very specific things and render the rest normally, but that wouldn't be special since some engines have been doing that for years.

I meant the RU-vid video was not uploaded in 4K ;) I think to see this level of quality + raytracing in a game, you'd need at least 2 of the next Titan cards to run it at over 50 fps at 1080p, though probably 3 or 4. So I agree on that.

To upload a 4K video you need 4K footage, so if this RT demo was created in 1080p there is no point uploading it as 4K video, because it will still have 1080p quality. 🤔

Hm maybe. They did upload it in 1440p.

Just saw it, same thing applies though. :) Same reason why my RU-vid picks always 1080p quality, even for this one being available at 1440p. There is no point showing me, since my screen resolution is 1080p.

better get coding

Rey tracing is ammination. C3po is goading.

Butter Bean hopefully people can mod in support, a year or 2 ago someone made s ray tracing mod for Quake 2 so it is possible

in the open source community, you can be the change that you desire

they won't look real. The day you replace flat textures with dynamic ones.....maybe 50 years from now....that's when it looks very real.

Dinkz, wtf i'm watching this on my phone.

@@leonardojensen2654 r/woosh

I'm watching this at 1440p on my galaxy s8+

I think me 1050x2g will start crying... Its acting up ever since i found out about th rtx cards

Im watching this in my caculator at 4k 120 fps.

The reason they show reflective surfaces is because that's where ray tracing is most notable and taxing.

Reflections are kinda what Ray tracing is for.

It's that big thing that was impossible with rasterization and was awfully faked even in the best looking AAA titles. There is a reason why a lot of games don't have working mirrors. BUT human faces, especially skinned ad animated are good idea - very difficult in raytracing.

Metro has a raytracing tech demo that has outdoor scenes 👌

Hxarh well, im betting its because its a new technology for gaming, its full potential will be reached in 2022 or so

Motocross Plays yes

dude that is so old, let that meme die in piece

PCs nowadays can run full crysis but low fortnite, and yes let the meme die in pieces

Does it run on Grush?

even intel hd runs crisis

Chó Mein running the game is up to your computer. So idk why they asking about frames when it varies on what you are using. Also, I’m not playing a game that can’t get 60fps, it’s just standard for a game to have that.

@@jesse9056 r/whoooosh

I was about to comment about that lol

but can it run crisis?

*claps*

Real-time Ray Tracing

Shiva Rampersaud and what is that? and what is the differences between the old rendering technique thingy

Hilman raytracing is more realistic because it actually simulates how light reflects and travels. Its really difficult or almost impossible to have it render in real time. That is why games dont use raytracing and dont implement realistic reflections and other kind of stuff. Cg artists and 3d animators primarily use raytracing since they dont have to show their animation in real time and can wait for it to render so they basically trade realisticness with long times to render. Pls sub xD

Raytracing is a method of rendering 3d images that has been used for a long time in offline (non-real-time) contexts. For each pixel in the image it essentially computes the path of a ray of light in reverse (starting from the camera rather than from the light sources), using fancy linear algebra to find where in the 3d scene the ray intersects, and then shading that pixel (some well-known shading models include Phong, GGX, and Cook-Torrance) based on the material at the intersected point and the visibility of that point relative to the light sources in the scene. Run this for each pixel and you get your image. The method can be expanded by tracing an additional sequence of 'bounces' for each ray after their initial intersection, if whatever it was they intersected was reflective or translucent, in order to compute things like reflections and refraction. Ray tracing generally strikes a decent balance between image accuracy and performance (historically not real-time, but not waiting-10-days-for-an-image either), and is widely used as a result, however there are a number of visual phenomena that it can't accurately reproduce on it's own. Still, seeing it come to real-time contexts at last is really exciting, and will have a particular impact on the quality reflections/refractions that we see in our games. I hope this was informative, here's a link to the Wikipedia article on ray tracing if you want to know more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_(graphics)

Too bad Nvidia & Valve have no ambition and won't make any games. Even though Nvidia has twice as much money as Sony :( Don't support these companies. God of War is the best looking game of all time. Highest rated game of 2018 :) ..

Quadro RTX 6000 has the same 10 GigaRays/sec speed as RTX 2080ti.

Thats a workstation GPU. The RTX 2080ti could pull it off

Aidan Clarke I doubt the 2080ti could pull it off. The demos we've seen so far are nothing like this video.

it doesn't especially matter whether or not this can run at 60fps, it's a film. This demo is produced in UE4 and rendered out to a film, meaning it isn't even important what the FPS is. It could be 1 FPS for all we know. What matters is that Raytracing is possible at all in the game engine, which means you can get frames of animation with realistic reflections, not bound to the fudgy reflection probes, more or less instantaneously, as opposed to waiting for them for minutes, hours, days, etc. While ray tracing technology will some day be in AAA games eventually, don't expect to be able to run those games at 60 fps for the next 3-5 years. This technology is more for the film, automotive, architecture visualization, industry for the next few years.

@@ConradSly "...running in real time in Unreal Engine 4" - quote from video description. "Additionally, the Quadro RTX 6000 comes equipped with 4,608 CUDA cores, 576 Tensor cores for AI and 72 RT cores for ray tracing activities. The graphics card also has 24GB of GDDR6 memory across a 384-bit memory interface" - so i really doubt 2080ti could pull it off.

Totally goofed up

The goofed up version

x2

This is about what can be rendered in real time, not what things will "look like". That isn't up to the card as much as it is to the engine, models and textures. We don't see anything non reflective here because that would be taking it easy on the card; less ray tracing would need to be done because those objects won't themselves display a reflection. The objective is to show how it performs in a high load stress test, not to make something aesthetically pleasing for its own sake.

@@skyemegakitty matte surfaces are a very different thing to ray tracing

Well it doesn’t affect what isn’t using it. Ray-tracing isn’t applied to everything. This dude’s face isn’t shown because he isn’t the star of the show.

Some things are still much heavier computationally than straightforward geometric light bouncing. I think they avoided getting in on the face because skin requires heavy sub-surface scattering to look realistic, and that takes hours to render properly, although I'm sure this set up could do it in seconds. The same with proper volumetrics, like smoke and fog. There will always be limits. This was 5 rays per pixel, which obviously looks great for hard surfaces. It's still early days though. Pretty kick ass tech! I remember playing on my Spectrum and thinking 3D would just be too much processing to do in my lifetime. Glad I was wrong!

what

Dude fix your grammar a bit tbh

Detroit is on console

But detroid is trash

@@jacobm1190 It wasn't so much "hard" as it is annoying. Like driving on a smooth road and suddenly encountering bumps/potholes.

Ayyy, Armored Core

Wished the made armored core for pc :'(

At the end it becomes fortnite

OHHH I MISSED ARMORED CORE SO MUCH I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

Yes. Yes it DOES. Wondering when the children in Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Uganda, etc. will be able to get their grubby little hands on it, as well???

Atheist7 Well it comes out September 20th...

partytime lol

Its not ready yet. Tomb raider was being played at 1080p on a 2080ti at mid 30 fps.

We'll still be waiting years for full scene diffuse interreflection/ray tracing. This is just another Gameworks gimmick ala hairworks. If Turing cores are 6x faster than Pascal, a relatively simple ray traced scene would probably need 60,000-90,000 cores to maintain 60fps at just 1080p. I don't doubt nVidia's software engineers will pull off some nice effects with the tech, but we just don't have the raw calculating power for any substantial real time ray tracing yet, and at our current rate of progression, I would say we won't be there for at least 5 years.

have you seen spongebob?

*F U T U R E*

2 mins?Wow for me it took hours to render extremely simple scenes with ray tracing.

Meresheres V2.0 scenes yes. I built an extremely basic forklift lol and for fun i did raytracing, computer was sweating. It had like the lowest tier nvidia cad card or whatever

Ray tracing isn’t a single technique it’s a rendering family....UE4 uses ray tracing for all kinds of stuff, you can use it for firing off for hit detection on enemies or even just interactive control panels. This is showing a whole host of ray trace rendering akin to the Pixar rendering material.

Big Smoke wasn’t ray tracing lol not on a school computer

UE4 uses cone-tracing for real time rendering

This is is only if you turn on high textures

Kexin wut, why wtf

Why don't you tell nvidia how to optimise this feature so it has no performance impact and it's usable at 60fps or higher?

Jonatan Luque They will tell you on Monday morning. He said “little faster” on the new Quadro RTX, but we don’t know how much, it can be a lot faster but he keep it quiet for now until GeForce announcement where people care about frame rate.

The StarWar Demo is running on 1080p 24fps. which is real-time for movie production (not for gaming, LOL). So... what they said "real-time" is not gaming(above 30fps) ready yet, but we will see.

This, just like anything else, depends on what you try to do. 60fps is not about features, but a) how much you try to render b) at what quality c) externalities. Ray tracing has been realtime since the 90s, but you just rendered 4-5 rays per frame. These days the same demos can possibly run at several thousands of fps. Who are you giving you these ideas?

Exactly what I thought too, so freakin similar!

They didn't tell you that Tony Stark worked for NVidia...

probably they make iron man in the development, but they can't secure the right for it in time, so they scrap it and make this.

no, that's portal 2 2

Ediz Benam valve and number 3 cant go along

Dead space

halo 7

Its beautiful tho

Go frame by frame between 2:01 and 2:02.. reflections take time to appear.. it gave me cancer

Look horrible, it really give me cancer

And everything look so glossy, it's making me puke!

Well you catch cancer pretty easily though

if you think that video card is doing all textures, details and realism in games you are playing, maybe you need to think twice, cause its the programmers, art-desighners and others in devs teams.

Владимир Григорьев let me just facepalm to what you just said. They OP is referring to the cards being able to withstand all of these renders and graphics while still functioning smoothly. Not that the cards are building all of this animation by themselves

ok man, just chill, relax, dont bully me.

It's a Quadro RTX 6000 for companies for 10,000$. The RTX 2080 wouldn't be able to run this

How would ya know till ya tested it..

MmmmmmmmHHmmmmmm......UMMMM?

They use information from multiple frames to render a more accurate result. (temporal rendering method) In the beginning, there is no previous frame to be used so there is some artifact there.

But why is the bug not fixed for a demonstration video ?

Alexandre Giguère because nvidia and no other company have found a solution to the problem. We would need at least twice as powerful hardware as this to have no artifacting, so thats about 5 to 10 years down the road hopefully

more like the Starcraft cinematic

Starcraft Wings of Liberty cinemtic. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r7d5XheWiBk.html

Hiraki play The sky is blue and the earth flat. Just another obv statement like yours ;)

Exactly what I was thinking lol

I i'm so excited about sandbox games and mechanics in game with this tech. Raytracing will also probably make procedural generation easier.

tfw your virtual ships cost more than the RTX 2080 you use to play star citizen at 4k 60fps

I think we're gonna have better tech when SC comes out in 2078.

Calm down guys Star citizen is coming with half life 3 and despacito 2.

they were just waiting for nvidia RTX. somehow, biggest performance update to SC release a month after nvidia new cards

I love gigarays

I'm pretty sure beauty is a quality and therefore... you can't count it..

The Turing architecture gpus are 6x faster though, not 40%. It says on Nvidia's website.

*drops the 1080 box* "What are we waiting for...??" *walks out*

Ghostshadow7 booger shoes?

Alright, get up there fellas, this is exactly what i need

mind reader :-|

HAHA

Ayyy that's pretty good.

Thanks; as I was going to say that also, but you said it better. My statement was going to be about 5 long sentences long, or so.

Lel, this is probably rendered with quad Nvlink Quadro or something :p Not impressive at all tho comparing this to the Star Wars scene done in Unreal engine a few months ago

Yes and support for 8k 240hz

They did show a face here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KJRZTkttgLw.html

Because only developers like Naughty Dog can make the most realistic Face. These guys can't

Aj Daniel They dont need to show a face, since its about showing the ray tracing and not how good the faces are! Today every small artist can make good looking faces in their basement.

2darki Good Joke

Aj Daniel you mean good honesty

I can still imagine myself asking "But can it run Crysis" in 10 years

IF they keep adding 20-40% increases to each generation like they have been, I'd say in 4 years (2 generations) we'll have cards that can run the tech demo from this year with the stormtroopers. Apparently they've got it working on one quadro card now instead of 4.

Tony B. stark Looks more like "starcraft: wings of liberty" cinematic. watch that and tell me :)

Romick Vieira it's looking like mix-up of both

Yeah, the one from Iron man 1

Tony B. stark Yeah

Adelhard Schwarz it’s been in use for years at Pixar...

It’s been used for years. Real time ray tracing is what’s new

RT has been around not just for years, but for decades. Here you can see 1978 demo, for instance. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WV4qXzM641o.html Yep, you could get photorealistic graphics on your computer 40 years ago. But you had to wait days to generate single frame.

Cinematic rendering has never been something else than raytracing. They use CPU Server Farms and takes forever to render.

Never, Linux is not for gaming

@@MrHuntPowa so?

isnt it a vulkan layer? day 1 then

@@MrHuntPowa there is a community out there for gaming, but I would use it more for productivity. It would prob give more open source video editing software a chance to run decently.

Florentin I’m not a hundred percent sure, but things like this usually take like hours to render.

It could be true, is powerd in real time by rtx 2080ti and made on quadro 6000 so😂😂😂😂

I worded my sentence badly. What I meant was that the 1080ti would render this slowly.

I feel ya, I got a GT 9600

Fell Lucky,here in Brazil One GTX 1080 TI its $1,800

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XZd9n373vf4.html

@@tomatus270389 badass trailer thanks haha I see why now

Hehehe I remember watching that way back when. Brings up good memories.

Um I think you mean runescape

No one said it's rendered on the RTX cards, just that it's showing the effects of RTX at its max

yikes