diharaw / Helios
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Real-time unidirectional GPU path tracer using the cross-vendor Vulkan ray-tracing extensions.
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Helios
A real-time unidirectional GPU path tracer using the cross-vendor Vulkan ray-tracing extensions.
Features
- Real-time progressive rendering
- Tiled rendering
- Standalone Editor and Viewer applications
- Image Based Lighting
- Area Lights
- Punctual Lights
- Next Event Estimation
- Russian roulette path termination
- Alpha-testing via Any-hit shaders
- Hosek-wilkie procedural sky
- ACES tone mapping
- GPU Profiling
Usage
- Download the latest release here.
- Extract archive contents.
- Run HeliosViewer.exe or HeliosEditor.exe.
- Open a sample scene located in the <helios_root>/assets/scene folder via the file open prompt at startup.
Controls
-
W/A/S/D- camera movement. -
RMB- hold to look around. -
G- toggle UI. -
ESC- close application.
Building
Windows
Tested on: Windows 10 version 2004
Prerequisites
- MSVC 19.00 or higher
- CMake 3.8 or higher
- Vulkan SDK 1.2.162.0 or higher
git clone --recursive https://github.com/diharaw/Helios.git
cd Helios
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" ..
System Requirements
A GPU that supports the following Vulkan Extensions:
- VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline
- VK_KHR_acceleration_structure
- VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing
Requires the latest NVIDIA/AMD drivers.
Dependencies
License
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