This ray tracer is mostly based on Jamis Buck's The Ray Tracer Challenge. There is also a path tracer rendering option based on Peter Shirley's Ray Tracing in One Weekend (use option -p).
It is implemented in Rust using the WGPU library and compute shaders in WGSL.
- Rust and Cargo - https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
- A device compatible with WGPU - https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
Pathtracer scene:
cargo run --release -- -s assets/scenes/models.yaml -r 256 -b 8
Raytracer scene:
Whitted ray tracer as described in Jamis Buck's book has been deprecated and will no longer work.
You can find more scenes under assets/scenes
The scene yaml files are built according to the format created by Jamis Buck for the Ray Tracer Challenge book (with some modifications).
Type cargo run --release -- -h for a full list of options.
This is early days for my renderer and there are many bugs. Please let me know if you find some.
I have tested it using Vulkan and Metal backends for WGPU. I know that it currently does not work with the DX12 backend.