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DS2LE - PT mode will be able to scale across different systems. Thanks for the video Usama.
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DS2LE (Non-PT) vs DS2LE(PT). Thanks Usama again. Note DS2LE already had a lot of improvements like material shading, GTAO, Shadows already
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Thanks to @usamapajama.bsky.social for these compare pics. I have requested community members to update this thread so different specs/image quality improvements are shown in one place. I have started work on a Beta release in meantime.
Vanilla VS DS2LE-PT

Nanite Tessellation Nanite Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Displacement was the next major feature I worked on after Nanite it...

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming.
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Happy Birthday David

Performance testing with help of community. This is 6 Paths per pixel RTX 5080 4K Performance - DLSS 4.5. Default is 1 Path per Pixel.
Thanks to AvgCroissant, don't think they are on this platform but I will keep it updated. Users can choose trade off between raw resolution vs path count.

The skybox rendering is done using this research paper, after the SkyLUT has been generated, it is then converted to SkyCubemap to facilitate path tracing. SkyLUT and Cubemap are only re-generated when atmosphere lighting changes.
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PT - Full Dynamic lighting showcase, Nothing baked here, everything dynamic, including sky being generated with atmosphere scattering

I think it will get better, I believe this is the worst phase.

Got ya

new transparency rendering on #degine which combines mask and order-independent blend modes, to get best of both worlds. mask (aka 1-bit alpha) is used for the fully opaque parts of the texture, and wboit is done on the edges to give it a smooth blend.

Whats up Usama. Thought you were not on this platform

You know Skele after all this, its going to be normal, things will get worse, we probably are in the worst part now, now ppl will think more hopefully

It seems 4Chan/Reddit was engineered hate along cultural lines. I had to look up what is /pol, It was always surprising to me why there was so much division as I only started social media since mod release and had almost nothing before. Epstein files is some of the darkest stuff I have read.

Emission scale param per environment, Default - 1.0, but sometimes useful to just have a quick boost instead of reconfiguring all lights in a zone

Confidence per zone, also shows denoiser validation in NRD, when I decrease the gradient boost, there is ghosting in player shadow. Checkerboarding pattern represents total disocclusion means history fix is in action so blurrier shadows (spatial), Parameters need to be just right to avoid ghosting.

fixing up the transparent pipeline on #degine so the hair looks a bit more solid. ended up just combining mask and blend alpha together, since wasn't having luck tweaking wboit for hair

Testing The Gutter today in full PT mode. Lot of visibility if all the sconces are lit.

Working on cutscenes, The Facial motion vectors were not captured earlier, but are now captured, note this is not the final lighting setup, Cutscenes have lot of camera switches and light intensity changes.

I think some ppl are confused, I am from India and this is exciting news for me as a consumer, It will make quality products affordable and available for me.

Oh yeah I think another market is chocolates/processed foods, there is lot of ppl here who want quality products, but sadly its not easily affordable or available, I am optimistic about that market as well.

Its alright, but for long term benefits , they need to work out more things, don't think business relationships are sustainable if they are loopsided, what really pushed the timeline to immediate is USA pushing its tariffs all around the world.

It benefits Auto Industries, that's why it is a deal , there is some give and take. I am from India, are you saying I should not be happy if there is benefits coming out of it, I for eg am hoping to see what cars are more affordable.

Nothing ? It allows export of textiles from India to EU, lots of Silk/Cotton based industries will benefit from that, some of my friends run small scale business this is another avenue to sell goods, in return EU will get access to India auto market, I am confused are you not in support of FTA?

I am in support of FTA, sorry if that was not clear from the post, I mentioned the negative news which has been coming out of USA all week.

Undead Hollow - Pre Render img
Dark Souls III

Free trade means more choices , quality of products. Euro cars , Pasta and Chocolates will be much more affordable in India. India also gets access to textile industry in exchange for eg. After all the racist and sad news all week. This put a smile on my face.

NRD Sample has also recently been updated by Dzhdan, how to do gradients in SHARC update pass, you can check it out here
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Helps with reflections too which are not "mirror like"

More temporal gradients work. This surface was having heavy ghosting even with gradients, adjusting the sensitivity by detecting specific cases like if the importance sampled ray was supposed to hit and was obstructed. If done to full screen it will cause false disocclusion.