# GLSL-PathTracer

**Repository Path**: townboy123/GLSL-PathTracer

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: GLSL-PathTracer
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 2
- **Created**: 2023-03-31
- **Last Updated**: 2023-03-31

## Categories & Tags

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## README


GLSL-PathTracer
==========
A physically based path tracer that runs in a GLSL fragment shader.

![Jinx](./screenshots/Jinx.jpg)

![Tropical Island](./screenshots/Tropical_Island.jpg)

Features
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- Unidirectional path tracer
- Two-level BVH for instancing
- Disney BSDF
- Texture mapping (Albedo, Metallic-Roughness, Normal, Emission)
- Analytic lights (Spherical, Rectangular, Directional)
- Image based lighting
- Multiple importance sampling
- Tile rendering
- OpenImageDenoise
- Stochastic alpha testing
- MagicaVoxel style homogeneous volumes
- GLTF/GLB support (In progress)

Build Instructions
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Please see INSTALL-WIN.txt for the build instructions for Windows and INSTALL-LINUX.txt for Linux

Sample Scenes
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A couple of sample scenes are provided in the repository. Additional scenes can be downloaded from here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UFMMoVb5uB7WIvCeHOfQ2dCQSxNMXluB/view

Gallery
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![Monster](./screenshots/Monster.jpg)
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![WW2](./screenshots/ww2.jpg)
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![RenderMan Swatch](./screenshots/Renderman_swatch.jpg)
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![Dragon](./screenshots/dragon.jpg)
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![Stormtrooper](./screenshots/stormtrooper.jpg)
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![Panther](./screenshots/panther.jpg)
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![Crown](./screenshots/crown.jpg)
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![Mustang](./screenshots/Mustang.jpg)
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![Mustang_Red](./screenshots/Mustang_Red.jpg)
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![Hyperion](./screenshots/hyperion.jpg)
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![Ajax](./screenshots/ajax_materials.jpg)
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![Dining Room](./screenshots/DiningRoom.jpg)
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![Rank3PoliceUnit](./screenshots/rank3police_color_corrected.jpg)
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![Staircase](./screenshots/staircase.jpg)
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![Substance Boy](./screenshots/MeetMat_Maps.jpg)

References/Credits
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- A huge shout-out to Cedric Guillemet (https://github.com/CedricGuillemet) for cleaning up the code, adding the UI, integrating ImGuizmo, cmake and quite a lot of fixes.
- Tinsel Renderer (https://github.com/mmacklin/tinsel) A modified version of the scene description & loader from that project is used here.
- Ray Tracing in One Weekend (https://github.com/petershirley/raytracinginoneweekend) Peter Shirley's excellent book introductory book on raytracing which helped me get started on this project.
- Erich Loftis's THREE.js PathTracer (https://github.com/erichlof/THREE.js-PathTracing-Renderer).
- OptiX Introduction Samples (https://github.com/nvpro-samples/optix_advanced_samples/tree/master/src/optixIntroduction)
- Mitsuba Renderer (https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/mitsuba) Reference for validation.
- PBRT-v3 (https://github.com/mmp/pbrt-v3) which provides an endless source of knowledge. The online book is a gift that keeps giving.
- Model links/credits are in the assets folder (See: Model Credits.txt)