QUAKE II RTX [Mar 19, 2019, 09:36 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Here's more from team green, as
an article on the NVIDIA website has details on the project to add RTX
ray-tracing effects to QUAKE II. The centerpiece is
Quake 2 real-time path
tracing using RTX, a new trailer showing how a 22 year-old game can benefit
from a new coat of digital paint. Here's a bit on what we're seeing and how this
differs from the previous such project:
Running on a Vulkan renderer, with support for Linux, Quake II RTX is a pure ray-traced game. That means all lighting, reflections, shadows and VFX are ray-traced, with no traditional effects or techniques utilized.
“But what’s new with Quake II RTX compared to Q2VKPT?”, you ask. A lot. We’ve introduced real-time, controllable time of day lighting, with accurate sunlight and indirect illumination; refraction on water and glass; emissive, reflective and transparent surfaces; normal and roughness maps for added surface detail; particle and laser effects for weapons; procedural environment maps featuring mountains, sky and clouds, which are updated when the time of day is changed; a flare gun for illuminating dark corners where enemies lurk; an improved denoiser; SLI support (hands-up if you rolled with Voodoo 2 SLI back in the day); Quake 2 XP high-detail weapons, models and textures; optional NVIDIA Flow fire, smoke and particle effects, and much more!
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I remember an animation of Quake ray traced. It looked cool, and they threw in stained glass for the heck of it.
They estimates it would take a 30,000 Hz Pentium to render it live.
I doubted I would live long enough.
They estimates it would take a 30,000 Hz Pentium to render it live.
I doubted I would live long enough.
The Pyro wrote on Mar 19, 2019, 09:53:
Perhaps my memory of Q2 is faulty, but it looks they (accidentally?) removed all of the particle effects. No blaster trail, no shotgun splash on the walls, no blood sprays. Bugged?
No the developer said that particle effects aren't implemented yet with the Vulkan path tracing renderer. They will eventually add it later. NVIDIA implemented it in their Quake II RTX version.
aka_STEVE wrote on Mar 19, 2019, 15:17:bazinga
the only game yet that Nvidia can run Raytracing & get playable frames in...
I think the "grainy" quality of the software renderer could probably be duplicated in OpenGL by just disabling texture interpolation; it's been a while since I poked around in Q2, but there's probably a console command that can do it.
Personally I preferred OpenGL for performance reasons but also because it supported colored lighting.
Personally I preferred OpenGL for performance reasons but also because it supported colored lighting.
I'd play this on my 2080Ti. I hope it is available for download, at least eventually.
I liked the "grainy" raytracing renderer from a few years ago better IMO.
It reminded me more of the "sortware" renderer for the original Quake 2, which was super pixelated, but to me that's what feels "right".
I never liked the OpenGL renderer for this game, made it look too clean. My nostalgia is all about that sweet sweet softrware renderer, and how sexy the railgun shots would look within it ^_^
It reminded me more of the "sortware" renderer for the original Quake 2, which was super pixelated, but to me that's what feels "right".
I never liked the OpenGL renderer for this game, made it look too clean. My nostalgia is all about that sweet sweet softrware renderer, and how sexy the railgun shots would look within it ^_^
the only game yet that Nvidia can run Raytracing & get playable frames in...
Bill Borre wrote on Mar 19, 2019, 10:15:
OMG what a flashback. It all comes back, the sound effects, how they'd fire off a couple bursts as they died...
Literally set off a bunch of memories from my twenties. So much time in Quake and Quake 2.
MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Mar 19, 2019, 10:10:The Pyro wrote on Mar 19, 2019, 09:53:
Perhaps my memory of Q2 is faulty, but it looks they (accidentally?) removed all of the particle effects. No blaster trail, no shotgun splash on the walls, no blood sprays. Bugged?
I don't know if 'bugged' is the right term, but yeah they definitely changed how the blaster works, no fiery trail following the shot.
Read the fine article. The video blue linked is the original demo for the project. They’ve since added particles, etc. but the video isn’t available yet.
Probably proof that it works and nothing more. It feels a bit off to me. That game doesn't age well.
OMG what a flashback. It all comes back, the sound effects, how they'd fire off a couple bursts as they died...
The Pyro wrote on Mar 19, 2019, 09:53:
Perhaps my memory of Q2 is faulty, but it looks they (accidentally?) removed all of the particle effects. No blaster trail, no shotgun splash on the walls, no blood sprays. Bugged?
I don't know if 'bugged' is the right term, but yeah they definitely changed how the blaster works, no fiery trail following the shot.
Perhaps my memory of Q2 is faulty, but it looks they (accidentally?) removed all of the particle effects. No blaster trail, no shotgun splash on the walls, no blood sprays. Bugged?
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