Autodesk open sources Aurora – an interactive path tracing renderer that leverages graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware ray tracing

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/engineering-hub-blog/aurora-a-real-time-path-tracing-renderer-that-enables-fast/ba-p/11322421

 

https://github.com/autodesk/Aurora

 

Goals for Aurora

  • Renders noise-free in 50 milliseconds or less per frame.
  • Intended for design iteration (viewport, performance) rather than final frames (production, quality), which are produced from a renderer like Autodesk Arnold.
  • OS-independent: Runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS.
  • Vendor-independent: Runs on GPUs from AMD, Apple, Intel, NVIDIA.

 

Features

  • Path tracing and the global effects that come with it: soft shadows, reflections, refractions, bounced light, and others.
  • Autodesk Standard Surface materials defined with MaterialX documents.
  • Arbitrary blended layers of materials, which can be used to implement decals.
  • Environment lighting with a wrap-around lat-long image.
  • Triangle geometry with object instancing.
  • Real-time denoising
  • Interactive performance for complex scenes.
  • A USD Hydra render delegate called HdAurora.

 

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