What is it?

A stochastic path tracer using monte carlo estimation to render realistic images with global illumination. Supports a PBR (physically based rendering) workflow.

What can it do?

• Load and render scenes comprised of primitives and 3D models with realistic lighting.
• Support different material types for each object.
• Support for texture mapping.
• Next event estimation for direct light sampling.
• Acceleration structure so I don't have infinite render times.
• Image based lighting.

Why?

Because I was bored.

Cool, show some pictures.

How do I use it?

You probably shouldn't, this is a toy/learning project. If you really want to, build with VS2017 or later and run either Raytracer.Core or Raytracer.Frontend.

(Insert other software) is faster and/or better.

Probably.