awesome-rtx

Curated collection of projects leveraging NVIDIA RTX technology (OptiX, DXR, VKR)

Generic

• Ray Tracing Gems (free PDF) and source code.
• Real-Time_Ray_Tracing from Real-Time_Rendering_4th
• Introduction to NVIDIA RTX and DirectX Ray Tracing.
• RTX topics in NVIDIA developer site.
• DirectX Spec - Raytracing.

DXR

• NVIDIA's early DXR samples
• GettingStartedWithRTXRayTracing - Chris Wyman's SIGGRAPH 2018 Course "Introduction to DirectX Raytracing"
• Microsoft's D3D12 Raytracing Samples
• dxr-path-tracing
• DXRExperiments - lightweight prototyping framework for DirectX Raytracing build upon Microsoft DXR Fallback Layer.
• DXRPathTracer - (very) simple path tracer implemented using DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR). [MIT]
• RayTracing OBJ Viewer - example of OBJ rendering with OSPRay, Embree and OptiX. [MIT]
• WispRenderer - RTX Ray Tracing Renderer, made by Y3 students at Breda University of Applied Science. https://teamwisp.github.io [EPL-2.0]
• Minimalistic tutorial from NVIDIA.
• IntroToDXR - barebones sample application to get you jump started with DXR.

VKR

• Simple RTX Vulkan raytracing tutorials. [MIT]
• Ray Tracing In One Weekend (Vulkan RTX) - Implementation of Ray Tracing In One Weekend using Vulkan RTX.
• VKR sample from Sascha Willems.

OptiX

• VisRTX - Visualization framework powered by NVIDIA RTX technology. LICENSE
• Fermat - research oriented physically based rendering system.
• VLR - Monte Carlo Ray Tracing Renderer.
• Optix-PathTracer - Simple physically based path tracer.
• Official OptiX Samples.
• RTOW-OptiX - OptiX version of Pete Shirley's "Ray Tracing in One Weekend".
• Volumetric-Path-Tracer - VPT is a path tracer to render open vdb volume files using Nvidia gvdb library and Cuda. [BSD-3]

Multiple-backends

• ChameleonRT - example path tracer which runs on multiple ray tracing backends (Embree/DXR/OptiX/Vulkan/OSPRay) [MIT
• lighthouse2 - rendering framework for real-time ray tracing / path tracing experiments. [Apache License 2.0]

Game engines

• Unity
• Unreal