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GPU Voxel Downsampling with Compute Shaders


Josh

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For downsampling of GI voxel data, I found that a compute shader offers the best performance. The first step was to add support for compute shaders into Ultra Engine. :cool:

I've never used these before but I was able to get them working pretty quickly. I think the user API will look something like this:

//Load compute shader
auto module = LoadShaderModule("Shaders/Compute/test.comp.spv");
auto shader = CreateShader();
shader->SetModule(module, SHADER_COMPUTE);

//Create work group
int workercount = 8;
auto workgroup = CreateWorkgroup(shader, workercount, workercount, workercount);

This is not using my final formula. It's not even using bilinear sampling, it's just using a single sample from the previous mipmap. But it's basically working:

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Next I will fix up the downfilter sampling and then we can start doing GI and reflections again. Basically, we are in exactly the same place we were a month ago, except now the voxelization process is instantaneous, and will work with animated models and objects in motion. Below is a shot of the results I was getting previously:

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It will be very interesting to see this working with animated models. Maybe we can remake the first level of Quake 2 and compare it to the RTX version.

I'd like to thank Vilém Otte for his helpful advice with this.

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54 minutes ago, Genebris said:

Do I understand that correctly? Reflected visuals are geometry that got voxelized and then polygonized back?

The first part is correct, the geometry is rasterized / voxelized into a 3D texture. The reflection is a bunch of texture lookups into that texture.

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