NVIDIA GameWorks Integration

[Leo_Rakes]

@design.gr.3d02

It all depends on you how good the result will be in the end and how well you will trade off quality for performance. There seems to be no “ideal” settings, every scene is different and requires a slightly different approach.

There is not much really, there are like 2 PDF files with recommended settings without getting into much of a detail. There are also in-engine tooltips which is the main source of info. Some of the commands were changed or completely removed for VXGI 2 so be aware of that as well. In the end it all comes to just a lot of testing and reading forums including branch.

After doing some research it seems like it is not a really trivial task and there is not much of a point since RTX will supposedly replace both technologies in future. Hence we don’t hear much regarding Gameworks lately I suppose.
https://www.roadtovr/nvidias-geforce-rtx-cards-bring-new-vr-rendering-features-and-enhancements/

Yes, RTX will take the place of VXGI, but RTX seems to take at least six months to officially launch and mature, and during time we still need VXGI to provide the closest real-time picture to ray-tracing, and now it seems that only VXGI can meet the demand for ray-tracing-level images.

But NVIDIA seems to be putting all its energy into RTX, and VXGI seems to have no one to manage the updates, which is a big headache. It has caused us to be unable to replace 4.20, or even 4.21 engines, because VXGI has always been very important to us.