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UE4 VXGI Overview

VXGI is a new global illumination solution for UE4 that uses voxel cone tracing. It can compute multi-bounce global illumination in real-time by revoxelizing the scene each frame. The document provides information on enabling and configuring VXGI, including enabling diffuse and specular tracing, adjusting voxel resolution and cone tracing parameters, and using area lights and multi-bounce indirect lighting. Performance can be optimized by disabling features like specular tracing and adjusting voxel resolution.

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UE4 VXGI Overview

VXGI is a new global illumination solution for UE4 that uses voxel cone tracing. It can compute multi-bounce global illumination in real-time by revoxelizing the scene each frame. The document provides information on enabling and configuring VXGI, including enabling diffuse and specular tracing, adjusting voxel resolution and cone tracing parameters, and using area lights and multi-bounce indirect lighting. Performance can be optimized by disabling features like specular tracing and adjusting voxel resolution.

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VXGI IN UE4

Beta version now available on NvPhysX Github to UE4


licensees

Revoxelizes the whole scene on every frame (for simplicity)

Can cast multi-bounce GI from emissive materials &


multiple lights (shadow mapped or not)

With the default parameters, should work and look the same
on all DX11 GPUs

Example scenes (Cornell Box and SciFiHallway) are provided

gameworks.nvidia.com | GDC 2015


VXGI BRING UP
How to enable it
Check “VXGI Diffuse / Enable Diffuse Tracing” in the
PostProcessVolume
Check “VXGI Indirect Lighting” on real lights and make them
Movable

Set console variable “r.VXGI.DiffuseTracingEnable 1” (default)


Check “Used With VXGI Voxelization” on surface materials
(default)

Use “VXGI Opacity Voxels” view mode to see if all objects are
represented as occluders

Use “VXGI Emittance Voxels” view mode to see if directly lit


surfaces and emissive objects are represented as emitters
gameworks.nvidia.com | GDC 2015
VXGI PARAMETERS
Main Console Variables Material Parameters Cone Tracing Parameters
r.VXGI.MapSize
r.VXGI.Opacity6D
r.VXGI.Emittance6D
r.VXGI.NvidiaExtensionsEnable
r.VXGI.StoreEmittanceInHdrFormat
r.VXGI.EmittanceStorageScale
r.VXGI.EmittanceInterpolationEnable
r.VXGI.HighQualityEmittanceDownsamplingEnable

r.VXGI.DiffuseTracingEnable
r.VXGI.SpecularTracingEnable
r.VXGI.EmissiveMaterialsEnable
r.VXGI.DiffuseMaterialsEnable
r.VXGI.Range
r.VXGI.DebugClipmapLevel
r.VXGI.AmbientOcclusionMode
r.VXGI.MultiBounceEnable

gameworks.nvidia.com | GDC 2015


VXGI REFLECTIONS
How to enable VXGI Reflections
Set console variable “r.VXGI.SpecularTracingEnable 1”
Check “VXGI Specular / Enable Specular Tracing” in the PostProcessVolume

When enabled, VXGI Specular Tracing


Disables SSR
Replaces SSR & light probes with the VXGI Specular Tracing result
Can be combined with SSR if “r.VXGI.CombineSpecularWithSSR 1” is set

Limitation
VXGI reflections are meant to render glossy reflections (roughness >= 0.2 or so)
VXGI cannot render non-glossy reflections well (e.g. perfect mirrors)

gameworks.nvidia.com | GDC 2015


PERFORMANCE KNOBS
You can type the “ProfileGPU” command to get a breakdown of the GPU time
Output of “stat unit” command also includes VXGI WS (World-Space) and VXGI SS (Screen-
Space) GPU times

To improve cone tracing performance, edit the PostProcessVolume settings:


Disable specular tracing
Set “Diffuse Tracing / Number of Cones” to 4
Set “Diffuse Tracing / Tracing Sparsity” to 4 (quarter-resolution tracing)
Enable “Diffuse Tracing / Use Temporal Filtering” (to remove flickering artifacts)

To improve voxelization performance, set these console variables:


Set “r.VXGI.MapSize 64” (to improve both voxelization and tracing performance)
Set “r.VXGI.MultiBounceEnable 0” (to improve voxelization performance)
Set “r.VXGI.HighQualityEmittanceDownsamplingEnable 0” (to improve voxelization
performance)
gameworks.nvidia.com | GDC 2015
MULTI-BOUNCE GI
When multi-bounce support is enabled, VXGI computes a 3D
indirect irradiance map after voxelization
Uses the irradiance map during voxelization on the next frame
Adds one more bounce on every frame
Makes the whole scene appear in specular reflections

Single Bounce
How to enable it:
Set console varuable “r.VXGI.MultiBounceEnable 1”
Tune “VXGI Diffuse / Multi-Bounce Irradiance Scale” in
PostProcessVolume until it looks right
Irradiance may blow up if this value is too high
Use “VXGI Irradiance Voxels” view mode to see the indirect
irradiance map

Pictures on the right: visualization of emittance voxels


gameworks.nvidia.com | GDC 2015
Multi-Bounce
AREA LIGHTS
VXGI is good at computing lighting (including soft shadows)
from an arbitrary number of area lights of arbitrary shapes.

Using actual emissive surfaces is often better than faking


them with traditional local lights.
Single Bounce
For both performance and quality reasons, we recommend to
not use any fill lights when lighting scenes with VXGI.

With multi-bounce support, the entire scene can be lit by


area lights only.

Pictures on the right: Cornell Box lit by one emissive object

gameworks.nvidia.com | GDC 2015


Multi-Bounce

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