First!! ;)

Very, very nice. Looking forward to testing it out on my home PC :D

The link doesn't work, second.

I like the "Tic Toc" scene best, but IMHO you should remove the lensflares.

Cool!

How many fps do you get on your pc?

Well done. Worked fine on my P4 1.5GHz/GeForce 2/WinME. I think the lensflares are a bit too apparent too. Maybe if they were a bit softer and more transparent. Also it looks like the black part of them arent totally black, so you can actually tell its a square texture. Otherwise the demo is great, very fast!

For some reason I like low-resolution raytracers more then high-resolution ones.
If only someone could try to go one step further - trace more rays to add antialiasing, it would be totally cool!

downloading...

MaxSt.

Very nice looking, I just love to see realtime raytracers. I would love to see an interactive demo. let me run around in that last scene. It would be much more impressive IMO to see it from an angle of my choosing.

Kudos to you, I wish I was at your level. It is too bad that there is only one level of reflection, but I suppose the cost would be too high to make any more levels. How does your framerate change depending on the complexity of the scene? Are you only able to use perfect primatives?

ok that was too much for my pc:) p3 500 in software-gl-mode.. i now try hardware..

Have you thought about implementing some anti-aliasing? Your images look nice, but there are a lot of jagged edges in them that if smoothed would probably make the pictures look even better.

Dmnxia

with hardware not any faster (gf2mx)
i always try the highres modes, everything under it is just annoying:):):)

no, its great work.. now you need fast triangle-intersections (use gl for the first-ray-"intersections" ;))

So, basically, you want him to trace @ 640x480, then downsample to 320x240? why not just keep the 640x480 once you've got it?

Like realtime radiosity? That would be cool.

Yes, antialiasing!
I would just love to see it, even in 320x240!
It's too bad nobody tried to implement it yet... :(

MaxSt.

No!
He is not tracing 320x240 = 76800 rays, just 80x60 = 4800 rays, and adds some more in "problem" areas. He would need to go one step further in subsampling process - to add some subpixel rays in such areas, that's it. Performance hit will be 50% or something - but not 4 times slower, of course.

MaxSt.

> i always try the highres modes, everything under it is just annoying:):):)

Means realtime raytacing in not for you! :):)
Since geforce can't trace rays, it's CPU job.

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But I would like to see terrain :)

Was able to get running w/o any troubles using linux/wine. Very nice looking work! :^)

--Robert

What kind of programs doesn't run on Linux/WineX ?

">>What kind of programs doesn't run on Linux/WineX ?"

I can't speak for ramses, but the only major problems I've really had with Wine are programs that do registry tricks or rely on weird services. For instance I couldn't get Kazaa to run at all because it was trying to use that ad banner spyware service that wasn't running properly.

Most games and small apps work nice and fast.

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I'm very very impressed with the demo!

It's the best real-time renderer I've seen, can't wait to try it out at home to see how my P4 mother runs it.

We're getting close to having this technology in games because PC's are now getting just about powerful enough to do this in real-time at an acceptable frame rate.

It would be good to include a frame-rate counter with the demo.


- NOVA

There are two parts of the "wine" project (W.ine I.s N.ot E.mulator), the normal run of the mill "wine" project (www.winehq.com) which is focusing on getting things like Office, Quicken, and Notepad working. Another company (transgaming.com) is trying to get the DirectX stuff working, but they charge a subscription (like $5 per month) in order to devote programmers to improving the DirectX (read: gaming) portions of wine. So far it's pretty cool work, but the DirectX API is supposedly big and difficult to map into underlying OpenGL/Audio/Joystick/Networking calls on Linux.

I've had success with almost every business-style app using Wine (mail readers, IDE's, cheezy MFC video games, Win3.11 stuff), but games are a little more difficult. Since I run a strict Linux-only box, it's sometimes difficult to get the installers to finish properly, but once it's installed, the game works great.

About 60-70% of the demos offered here on flipcode work. The rest don't work because of unimplemented functions (like DDraw_set_cooperative_mm_level or something), and some because they're using the newest DirectX API's. It takes some time for WineX to catch up to DirectX since they are (by definition) behind the curve.

Hope that helps!

--Robert

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awesome stuff!!! :)

also thanks for the credit on your page :)

no, like realtime antialiased ray tracing. radiosity is COMPLETELY different (it's a global illumination method which calculates light interreflection between diffuse surfaces, and is geometry-based).

this just means having smooth edges, that's all.