Real time raytracing and nanite functionality

[Manuelperrotta1 (Manuelperrotta)]

Is it any news about nanite and real time raytracing on silicon? I really would like to buy a mac studio M2 Ultra

[ZenLeviathan]

@Manuelperrotta1,
At the current moment, not that I’m aware of. I’ve found a link to another discussion thread, but I haven’t seen any recent updates about ray tracing in nanite.

Is Nanite going support raytracing?

The current implementation of nanite and raytracing cannot really exist together in practice and so it uses a proxy mesh for ray intersection but is that the only solution for combining raytracing and nanite? I think when it comes to using unreal for more cinematic purposes, raytracing is possibly one of the most important feature sets for achieving great visuals and it would be a shame to lose out on it when using nanite. While virtual shadows are great they still are not on par with rt shadows…

I hope this can help you out,
-Zen

[Arkiras]

Raytracing and Nanite currently work together if you build ue5-main from source (link won’t work unless you’ve connected your Epic account to your GitHub account), but I have no idea whether or not this will work on the M2.

I also don’t know if all raytracing features work, I only tested Lumen and the Pathtracer, both of which seemed to work fine.

[Manuelperrotta1 (Manuelperrotta)]

Lumen work, but live raytracing with nanite doesn’t