Your thoughts on and comments to Volume Rendering in Unreal Engine 4.

[NoobsDeSroobs]

@dpenney;577745

I haven’t read through all the replies here, but I did implement volume rendering in UE for our VR experience, Allumette. I wrote a shader that ray marched some voxel grids I exported from Houdini. I baked in the lighting, so there are no shadow rays to march, which made it feasible. The cloudscape was really really big so I had to use some tricks with empty space traversal in order to get it running at framerate with a reasonable number of steps. I presented this at DigiPro this year:
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2947699

If you can’t get access to that paper, send me a message, and I can try to get you a preprint of the paper.

Also, if you are interested in volume rendering as a topic, I recommend checking out some of the notes from these SIGGRAPH courses (I helped out the first year in 2010).
Production Volume Rendering (SIGGRAPH 2011) — Magnus Wrenninge

Also, Magnus Wrenninge (who helped organized those courses) wrote a book on volume rendering that has a ton of good info:
https://www.crcpress.com/Production-Volume-Rendering-Design-and-Implementation/Wrenninge/p/book/9781568817248

Thank you so much for this. This will probably help me get to grips with volume rendering. I am new to the techniques and concept related to volume rendering so I appreciate resources like this. The course notes are huge, so thank you for that as well.

BTW, I am able to open and read the paper you wrote, but I am not able to download it and print it. It is a short paper so it does not matter that much, but I thought you might want to know. Maybe I can download it if I am on my university’s network. Will update after I have tested that.