Satin Ray tracing?

[alelordelo]

Hi Reza, thanks for sharing this amazing repo!

Have you thought of adding a Metal Ray Tracer?
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10149/

Or maybe integrate with Blender Cycles Metal version?

cheers!

[rezaali]

Currently Satin is focused real-time physically based rendering (something like eevee) vs cycles (which currently requires tons of compute and a different architecture to work properly).

[rezaali]

I'll be reinvestigating this over the next year.

[alelordelo]

hi @rezaali , great news!! Do you think Cycles could be an option?

[rezaali]

Metal provides a ray tracing API so while its possible to do ray tracing with Metal, its not possible to integrate with Cycles. Essentially the Satin based ray trace renderer would be a very crude replacement for Cycles.

[alelordelo]

yup, I know. I tested some metal ray tracing demos by Apple but its super crude, and you need to basically write al shaders from scratch...