TBtbillington·Jun 4, 2022Submission
Kajiya Render – Global Illumination Overview
2 points · Open discussionEmbarkStudios
kajiya
Rust2021–2024
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kajiya
💡 Experimental real-time global illumination renderer 🦀
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What it is
💡 Experimental real-time global illumination renderer 🦀
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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…
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Observed mentions: 2021-12-23 09:48:15 UTC to 2024-11-20 06:00:43 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThis 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
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