Infinity 3D real-time ray tracing engine

dreamylake

Edit 2021: A new top image for forum preview.

I introduce a new tool, Infinity 3D real-time ray tracing engine with unique features that is available to try out today.

One of the main features of Infinity 3D is that all geometry doesn't have to be represented with triangles and this allows a high polygon count look without actually needing millions of polygons.

To that end, I3D supports subdivision surface meshes that are rendered per-pixel smooth even up close due to real-time ray tracing.

Additionally, ray traced primitives and CSG are supported and of course also standard polygonal meshes.

Another major unique feature is real-time ray traced dynamic shadows which gives the engine a different look from other real-time engines even with fully polygonal geometry.

Due to being heavily CPU based, I3D doesn't require a discrete GPU to run, but can benefit from having one.

Sneak peek video from 2016 gives an idea how I3D runs. The video was made before RTRT shadows. Edit: Remove link due to a new video below.

What is available today is Infinity 3D editor 1.0 for Windows, OSX and Linux. I3deditor is a tool for creators. Functionality includes scene tree, transform control, slider based inline material editor, mesh import, drag & drop add lights, primitives and cameras, toggle for mesh surface representation between polys/subdiv surfaces and ray traced shadows toggle for a spotlight and a render feature to up to 32K UHD resolution.

Get Infinity 3D

Little later this year engine SDK 1.0 will be released that includes I3deditor source. Additionally, it is possible to make I3D available as a plugin to game engines, 3D tools or other programs.

Edit: Images updated.

PolyHertz

Edit: seems I misunderstood the pricing. Still, if you want to sell this you should make new videos of it instead of relying on one you made 4 years ago (before even shadows were implemented).

sacboi

Output quality of your promo image is terrible. Now if that's any indication of this viewer's performance?! then quite frankly for me at the moment, drawing automotive content utilising a vector workflow will by far exceed, although obviously for what it's worth commenting subjectively. 

dreamylake

PolyHertz, the released tool is free for anyone for commercial purpose for now. The possible future price for commercial use stated on the website was and is $49 (one time purchase).

dreamylake

sacboi, Thanks for the feedback. Edit: Image has now been updated.

Obscura

There is very simple shading in that video. No direct lighting, or even shadows from the indirect lighting. Or reflections from objects. Whats exactly ray traced here? 

dreamylake

Obscura, primary visibility was ray traced in the video without triangulating 3d geometry and now ray traced shadows are also supported.

dreamylake

A new video is now available:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb7Vp8wS06w

Here are images of the scenes shown in the video. Each scene in the video highlights one ray tracing feature and comparisons are shown to standard techniques used in real-time graphics.

rollin

This is really interesting.
Would this work with skinned meshes as well?
And what would you say is the advantage over the usual tessellated approach?

dreamylake

Yes, it does work for skinned meshes.

Some advantages over tesselation are that you always get a smooth surface and silhuette, no need to set a subdivision level and no LOD popping.