Raylogic

100% Ray Tracing

Raylogic has developed a pure compute-based ray tracing renderer that renders without OpenGL, DirectX or Vulkan*.

The elimination of all rasterization allows a radical rethinking of the rendering pipeline. In addition, lighting, shadows, PBR, reflections, transparency and other effects come naturally.

Rendering is balanced between graphic fidelity and fast frame rates. Deterministic ray paths are used that do not require denoising and give clean graphic detail.

*A bit of Vulkan is used to gain access to the GPU and display, but Vulkan is not used for rendering.

Ray Tracing Simplicity

No draw calls
No frustum culling
No occlusion culling
No vertex processing
No overdraw reduction
No screen space calculations
No environment or cube mapping
No forward / deferred rendering
No level of detail meshes
No transparency ordering
No shadow mapping
No depth buffers
No mip-mapping
No filtering

Features So Far...

PBR materials
Dynamic lights
Dynamic shadows
Global illumination
GPU characters
GPU particles
Physics
Scene queries
Collision events
Spatial audio
Simple fog
Skyboxes

Highly data-oriented design
Proprietary, super fast memory manager
True ray traced supersampling (1x to 4x)
Half-Res mode and trace limiting

More features to come...

System Requirements

Rayve, and games made with Rayve, require Windows 10 and above.

For FHD & QHD, Nvidia 3070 minimum (4070 or higher recommended).

For UHD, Nvidia 4080 or higher recommended.

A gaming class PC with a minimum 4 cores, 8gb main memory.

Latest Nvidia graphics driver.

Support for AMD GPU's is planned, but not currently available.

Why Rayve?

Surprisingly, Rayve isn't using ray tracing for better visuals, as much of time it's hard to tell ray traced scenes from rasterized scenes. It's mainly the belief that pure ray tracing is a better approach for rendering games. Rayve doesn't have to flatten all scene triangles into screen space, then apply lighting/shadows in 2D. Rayve just bounces camera rays off objects where they sit. The path from object to display is very short, giving high rendering simplicity. Rayve doesn't yet match the features of current rasterization engines, but there is a lot of room to grow.