Raytracing tutorial, part 1

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Hi everyone,

I thought I’d try my hand at tutorial writing. This is an introduction and part one of a tutorial on scripting and, more specifically, raytracing. (It is Unity specific)

Please let me know what you think, and tell me if you encounter any errors so I can fix them. Thanks!

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Nice and simple start. Would love to see more and develop into a full-fledged “raytracing in Unity” tutorial.

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What is the point of this? I can see it’d be useful for practice, but raytracing…in software… in Javascript… I just can’t see it having any benefit in real-time games.

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very cool tutorial!
thanks a lot and looking forward for next section!
G>

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Thanks for the kind words.

The point of this isn’t for the user to be able to use raytracing in their games, it’s to teach the reader about problem solving and give some scripting exposure in Unity. I think of it as “guided practice”. If I thought people needed a raytracer, I would just give it to them. :wink: Besides, I know the material (which is pretty important if you’re going to be teaching, isn’t it?), the concept interests me, and it’s relatively easy to get results.

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Nice Work! really helpful! is there a second part?

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Was wondering the same, but from what I can tell, no…?

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It would be very nice to continue this tutorial.
I might give it a shot myself, if the original creator wont…

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Please do that man .it would be really informative.

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For everyone who’s interested, I am working on getting a tutorial out there, but I’s going slow,
so I decided to just randomly release my already “finished” raytraced renderer on Github

It’s both there for education and collaboration
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/175212-Community-Collaboration-Raytraced-Renderer
https://github.com/Benproductions1/Unity-Raytracer

Hope this helps some people :slight_smile:
Benproductions1

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As promised, here is the tutorial I wrote:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/178992-RayTracing-Tutorial-Full-(Simple)

It goes into a lot more depth than this one :stuck_out_tongue:

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:smile: Thanks a lot!!!

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The site is not working for me! ( http://dlgamesstudios.googlepages.com/tutorial.html )
But I am very curious! Please upload it again!!!

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Is there tutorial in c# ?