FleX is a particle based simulation technique for real-time visual effects.Traditionally, visual effects are made using a combination of elements created using specialized solvers for rigid bodies, fluids, clothing, etc. Because FleX uses a unified particle representation for all object types, it enables new effects where different simulated substances can interact with each other seamlessly. Such

NVIDIA Nsight™ Graphics is a standalone developer tool with ray-tracing support that enables you to debug, profile, and export frames built with Direct3D, Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenVR, and the Oculus SDK.

Modeling digital twins of factories, cities, or entire worlds involves complex simulations that must accurately replicate the physical behavior of objects and systems, which are foundational in building generative physical AI for powering the next generation of autonomous systems. NVIDIA PhysX® is a scalable, multi-physics SDK for simulating and modeling physics in Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, a

I recently delivered a presentation on Hybrid Ray Traced Shadows (HRTS) at GDC 2015, as part of the “Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11 & 12” tutorial. If you weren’t fortunate enough to attend GDC, then you can catch up with what I was talking about right here! As the name suggests, the technique combines ray tracing with conventional shadow mapping, to deliver extremely high quality contact

Depth precision is a pain in the ass that every graphics programmer has to struggle with sooner or later. Many articles and papers have been written on the topic, and a variety of different depth buffer formats and setups are found across different games, engines, and devices. Because of the way it interacts with perspective projection, GPU hardware depth mapping is a little recondite and studying

Are You Running Out of Video Memory? Detecting Video-Memory Overcommitment using GPUView While developing and playing PC games on Windows/WDDM, it is common for stuttering (uneven frame times) to start happening when enabling graphics features or increasing the screen resolution. There are a lot of possible root causes for stuttering; one of the most common is video-memory overcommitment which hap

The latest version of NVIDIA VXGI 0.9 is now available for download from here. NVIDIA VXGI is an implementation of a global illumination algorithm known as Voxel Cone Tracing. Global illumination computes all lighting in the scene, including secondary reflections of light of diffuse and specular surfaces. Adding GI to the scene greatly improves the realism of the rendered images. Modern real-time

Structured Buffers were a new addition to DirectX11. They offer expanded compute capabilities making them useful for techniques like tile based deferred shading. They offer a very convenient solution to representing data structures on the GPU that are more than simply colors or 4-component vectors. As such, they are a great tool to use in GPU programming. As titles designed to a D3D11 baseline hav

What Can You Do With Voxelization? A voxel representation of a scene has spatial data as opposed to the conventional rasterization view (as stored in a render target) which just has a slice of depth value. A voxelized scene can be easily traversed spatially and you can access data from coarse world locations. This enables rendering techniques which require spatial data such as indirect illuminatio

Since the release of the ground breaking Fermi architecture almost 5 years have gone by, it might be time to refresh the principle graphics architecture beneath it. Fermi was the first NVIDIA GPU implementing a fully scalable graphics engine and its core architecture can be found in Kepler as well as Maxwell. The following article and especially the “compressed pipeline knowledge” image below shou

As part of our day-to-day at NVIDIA we’ve been helping a developer to integrate one of our GameWorks libraries into the Unity engine. The GameWorks library in question is HBAO+ and after a quick initial assessment we discovered that it would be possible to achieve this without; A) needing to modify the internals of the library itself and B) use the existing functionality available in Unity for cre

PhysX FleX is a particle based simulation technique for real-time visual effects. Traditionally, visual effects are made using a combination of elements created using specialized solvers for rigid bodies, fluids, clothing, etc. Because FLEX uses a unified particle representation for all object types, it enables new effects where different simulated substances can interact with each other seamlessl

What is it? Conservative raster is a cool new feature that came along with NVIDIA’s new Maxwell architecture, which means it is accessible today on GTX9X0 and better boards. It allows rasterization to generate fragments for every pixel touched by a primitive. This post shows how to enable the feature, and highlights a couple of example use cases: ray traced shadows and voxelization. Conservative r

Note: This is a legacy SDK. Developers may download and continue to use, but it is no longer supported. NVIDIA Turf Effects empowers users to simulate and render massive grass simulations with physical interaction. Our grass technology provides a fully geometrical representation. Grass blades can be represented with a resolution as low as 3 triangles to several 100 triangles per blade using contin

Get the best Android development tools for NVIDIA SHIELD: the ultimate Android gaming family. The NVIDIA® SHIELD™ family of devices provide the most immersive Android gaming and media experience. They are built on the Android operating system - the most popular mobile OS in the world. Powered by the advanced NVIDIA Tegra® mobile processor, console quality game controllers and stunning 4K & HD vide

The NVIDIA Tegra K1 SoC will remain available through January 2024. L4T sustaining releases for Tegra K1 will continue to be made as deemed necessary. (L4T 21.8 was the most recent release.) Note that the Jetson TK1 Developer Kit has reached EOL and is no longer available for purchase. NVIDIA JetPack 3.1 was the final JetPack to support Jetson TK1 Developer Kit. If you have any questions, please v

Develop, build, debug and deploy native applications for Android, the world's most popular operating system, using Microsoft Visual Studio, the world’s most popular integrated development environment. NVIDIA® Nsight™ Tegra®, Visual Studio Edition brings the raw development power and efficiency of Microsoft Visual Studio to Android, giving you the right tools for the job. Flexible project managemen