Introducing the Ray Tracing Pipeline // Ray Tracing series

Keep exploring at https://brilliant.org/TheCherno/ Get started for free, and hurry—the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription. AMAZING place to learn all the math you'll need for this series! Support on Patreon ► https://patreon.com/thecherno Discord (#raytracing-series) ► https://discord.gg/thecherno Source code ► https://github.com/TheCherno/RayTracing 🧭 FOLLOW ME Instagram ► https://instagram.com/thecherno Twitter ► https://twitter.com/thecherno Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/thecherno Learn C++ with my series ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18c3MTX0PK0&list=PLlrATfBNZ98dudnM48yfGUldqGD0S4FFb 📚 RESOURCES (in order of complexity) 🟢 Ray Tracing in One Weekend series ► https://raytracing.github.io 🟡 Scratch a Pixel ► https://scratchapixel.com 🔴 Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation ► https://amzn.to/3y2bGK7 💾 SOFTWARE you'll need installed to follow this series Visual Studio 2022 ► https://visualstudio.microsoft.com Git ► https://git-scm.com/downloads Vulkan SDK ► https://vulkan.lunarg.com CHAPTERS 0:00 - Restructuring our code to behave like the ray tracing pipeline 4:25 - PerPixel / RayGen function 6:24 - TraceRay function and payloads 7:50 - ClosestHit function 8:36 - Miss function 9:16 - Other shaders in the GPU Ray Tracing pipeline 11:07 - Implementing the functions 11:50 - Implementing PerPixel 13:42 - Changing our TraceRay function 17:00 - Implementing ClosestHit 20:07 - Shading in our PerPixel function 21:16 - Implementing our Miss function 22:34 - The result 23:15 - Testing our pipeline with a reflection ray 27:10 - Ignoring negative hit distances Welcome to the exciting new Ray Tracing Series! Ray tracing is very common technique for generating photo-realistic digital imagery, which is exactly what we'll be doing in this series. Aside from learning all about ray tracing and the math to goes into it, as well as how to implement it, we'll also be focusing on performance and optimization in C++ to make our renderer as efficient as possible. We'll eventually switch to using the GPU instead of the CPU (using Vulkan) to run our ray tracing algorithms, as this will be much faster that using the CPU. This will also be a great introduction to leveraging the power of the GPU in the software you write. All of the code episode-by-episode will be released, and if you need help check out the raytracing-series channel on my Discord server. I'm really looking forward to this series and I hope you are too! ❤️ This video is sponsored by Brilliant. #RayTracing