100% Ray Traced

Raylogic has developed a new graphics driver that is written from scratch and based entirely on ray tracing. Rayve uses this new graphics driver instead of OpenGL, DirectX or Vulkan*.

Rayve doesn't include ray tracing, Rayve is ray tracing. 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, but the Vulkan rendering pipeline is not used.

Ray Tracing Simplicity

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

The internal renderer is small, simple and streamlined, having dramatically less complexity than rasterization-based engines.