kajiya

One of the many fun/cool things about Tiny Glade is that it quietly has one of the most advanced realtime global illumination lighting engines shipping in any game today, and it’s all completely custom for just this game. One of the devs, Tomasz Stachowiak, is a big deal in the realtime rendering world and previously was at DICE and Embark; at Embark he led the Kajiya experimental realtime GI project [1] that made quite a splash in the rendering world a while back. The other dev, Anastasia Opara, is a big name in the procedural graphics world. She gave one of my favorite presentations on the topic a few years ago [2]. Anyhow if you can’t tell I’m a big fan of both the game and the devs. :) [1] https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/kajiya [2] https://youtu.be/dpYwLny0P8M

According to the article, Rust is (or was) used in the kajiya renderer and in the "creative platform", not in their production games: > Our Rust project has different requirements than a video game. It’s a platform that will enable everyone — not just professional game makers — to build new small interactive experiences. The kajiya renderer is available on GitHub, but contributions have slowed down since mid 2022: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/kajiya/graphs/contributors The "creative platform" is now apparently available under wim.live (and has a twitter account called @createplaywim): https://wim.live/en/ - but the website only seems to play a video, I couldn't find any other functionality. They seem to be using Rust in a lot of tools though: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios

> You can't even achieve PS2-era graphics with Rust right now That's just straight up false: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/kajiya https://github.com/BVE-Reborn/rend3

This release primarily constitutes a massive rendering API rework. You can think of it more as a foundation that makes it easier to implement better rendering features in the future. If you check the release notes, you'll see HDR/Bloom support was dropped at the last minute, and several other major rendering features are still pending implementation. [0] The great part about Bevy is that it's modular, so you can swap out the renderer if you like. For example, there's already several people using Bevy with Embark's kajiya renderer.[1] [0] https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-6/#more-renderer-features [1] https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/kajiya

https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/kajiya kajiya currently works on a limited range of operating systems and hardware. Hardware: Nvidia RTX series Nvidia GTX 1060 and newer (slow: driver-emulated ray-tracing) AMD Radeon RX 6000 series