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Published inFeb 2023
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Marco Castorina
Marco Castorina
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Marco Castorina

Marco Castorina first got familiar with Vulkan while working as a driver developer at Samsung. Later he developed a 2D and 3D renderer in Vulkan from scratch for a leading media-server company. He recently joined the games graphics performance team at AMD. In his spare time, he keeps up to date with the latest techniques in real-time graphics.
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Gabriel Sassone
Gabriel Sassone
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Gabriel Sassone

Gabriel Sassone is a rendering enthusiast currently working as a Principal Rendering Engineer at Multiplayer Group. Previously working for Avalanche Studios, where his first contact with Vulkan happened, where they developed the Vulkan layer for the proprietary Apex Engine and its Google Stadia Port. He previously worked at ReadyAtDawn, Codemasters, FrameStudios, and some non-gaming tech companies. His spare time is filled with music and rendering, gaming, and outdoor activities.
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Implementing ray-traced reflections

In this section, we are going to leverage the hardware ray tracing capabilities to implement reflections. Before diving into the code, here’s an overview of the algorithm:

  1. We start with the G-buffer data. We check whether the roughness for a given fragment is below a certain threshold. If it is, we move to the next step. Otherwise, we don’t process this fragment any further.
  2. To make this technique viable in real time, we cast only one reflection ray per fragment. We will demonstrate two ways to pick the reflection’s ray direction: one that simulates a mirror-like surface and another that samples the GGX distribution for a given fragment.
  3. If the reflection ray hits some geometry, we need to compute its surface color. We shoot another ray toward a light that has been selected through importance sampling. If the selected light is visible, we compute the color for the surface using our standard lighting model.
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Marco Castorina

Marco Castorina first got familiar with Vulkan while working as a driver developer at Samsung. Later he developed a 2D and 3D renderer in Vulkan from scratch for a leading media-server company. He recently joined the games graphics performance team at AMD. In his spare time, he keeps up to date with the latest techniques in real-time graphics.
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Gabriel Sassone

Gabriel Sassone is a rendering enthusiast currently working as a Principal Rendering Engineer at Multiplayer Group. Previously working for Avalanche Studios, where his first contact with Vulkan happened, where they developed the Vulkan layer for the proprietary Apex Engine and its Google Stadia Port. He previously worked at ReadyAtDawn, Codemasters, FrameStudios, and some non-gaming tech companies. His spare time is filled with music and rendering, gaming, and outdoor activities.
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