Strolle: 💡pretty lightning, 🌈 global illumination, 📈 progress report!
Strolle is a rendering engine written entirely in Rust (including the GPU shaders) whose goal is to experiment with modern real-time dynamic-lightning techniques - i.e. Strolle generates this image:
... in about 9 ms on my Mac M1, without using ray-tracing cores and without using pre-computed or pre-baked light information:
Recently I've been working on improving the direct lightning so that it's able to handle dynamic geometry and finally, after weeks of hitting walls, I've been able to find some satisfying trade-offs - since I'm not sure how I can post videos in here, I've created a Twitter thread with more details:
https://shorturl.at/pvDIU
(can't post direct link unfortunately due to the automoderator and archive.org says it'll take 1.5h to archive it, so...)