Any Artist up for a path tracing demo/game?

Krypt0n

You remember those games, with art that was made to fit the technology and technology was made to fit the art? like doom 2 or quake.

Path tracing won't render GTA5 on any high end PC today, but smaller scoped games/demos/visuals are really within reach. check out: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27EpDJprQg"]allparts.avi - YouTube[/ame]

I wonder if there is any inspired artist to squeeze out the juice of this tech. we could trade
- resolution
- poly count
- high res textures
- dynamics
-...

for
- realistic materials
- global lighting
- caustics
- reflections
- refractions
- depth of field
- motion blur
- proper transparency
- ...


we'd start minimal and iterate, iterate, iterate and see what we can get out of it.

Drop me a pm if you'd like to have some collaborative fun creating the first real path tracing game in history or post here if you have questions.

Krypt0n

I've created a tiny webgl based path tracer to give you an idea how it might run

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56872693/pathy.htm

Krypt0n

to bump this again, I've added some features and implemented some feedback I've got.

(careful, might be slow on your machine)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ko5ijsk7nk1tghc/pathy3.htm

-gamma correction
-depth of field
-glass metarial -> reflection, refraction, fresnel (check out the realtime caustic on the ground)
-more sophisticated randomization of rays to reduce noise
-post filtering to further reduce noise
-'super sampsling' to reduce noise

drop me a note if you're interested