carl-vbn/opengl-raytracing

An experimental raytracer using OpenGL for GPU acceleration

OpenGL Ray-tracing

This is an experimental Computer Graphics project that uses OpenGL for GPU-accelerated ray-tracing.

Features include:

• Ray-traced soft shadows
• Ray-traced global illumination
• Progressive rendering
• Ray-traced reflections (including blurry reflections based on surface roughness)
• HDR Skyboxes
• Animation rendering

The project and its development process were showcased in this video on my YouTube channel.

opengl-raytracing's Issues

Release build won't run because it's actually a debug build

Hey,

It is not possible to run the current release build on a system that doesn't have development libraries installed due to the fact that these executables are debug executables and therefore require debug system libraries:

0130:err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP140D.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\mnt\\hhdd\\Big Downloads\\OpenGL-Raytracing\\opengl-raytracing-x64.exe") not found
0130:err:module:import_dll Library VCRUNTIME140_1D.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\mnt\\hhdd\\Big Downloads\\OpenGL-Raytracing\\opengl-raytracing-x64.exe") not found
0130:err:module:import_dll Library VCRUNTIME140D.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\mnt\\hhdd\\Big Downloads\\OpenGL-Raytracing\\opengl-raytracing-x64.exe") not found
0130:err:module:import_dll Library ucrtbased.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\mnt\\hhdd\\Big Downloads\\OpenGL-Raytracing\\opengl-raytracing-x64.exe") not found
0130:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls for L"Z:\\mnt\\hhdd\\Big Downloads\\OpenGL-Raytracing\\opengl-raytracing-x64.exe" failed, status c0000135

;-)

Tuxifan

MSVCP140D.dll,VCRUNTIME140D.dll,VCRUNTIME140_1D.dll,ucrtbased.dll is missing

build failed

I open this project in VS22, try to build, but it's failed - compiler could not find some headers. Maybe you should to use any build systems like CMake.