[osg-users] Nvidia RTX

[Lionel Lagarde]

Hi,

It is a GLSL extension, the ray tracing functions use some input data 
(like the acceleration structure) that can only be constructed and 
uploaded using the vk API.


On 21/02/2019 13:34, Chris Hanson wrote:
> One of my guys pointed out this recent addition:
>
> https://github.com/KhronosGroup/GLSL/blob/master/extensions/nv/GLSL_NV_ray_tracing.txt 
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 9:47 PM Chris Hanson <xenon at alphapixel.com 
> <mailto:xenon at alphapixel.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Well, I was wondering if there was an OpenGL RTX API anywhere, but
>     it doesn't seem there is.
>
>     Vulkan would appear to be the way to go for the future, but since
>     that's not ready for the oven yet (don't even have all the mise en
>     place), it might be we just have to make a utility library to
>     shovel OSG data into OptiX and let it do the work for now. There's
>     always going to have to be some kind of bridge from OSG to either
>     Vulkan or something else if no OpenGL support extension ever appears.
>
>
>
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