v4.3.5

NRD updated to v4.3.5:

• minimal 3rd person camera support
• CMake: infrastructure improvements
• CMake: "_Build" => "_Bin", "_Compiler" => "_Build"
• updated dependencies

v4.3.4

NRD updated to v4.3.4:

• exposed optional USE_LOAD macro switch in "Shared.hlsli"
• fixed "1-Deploy.sh" script

v4.3.3

NRD updated to v4.3.3:

• SDK: include PDB in Release config
• UI: minor performance improvements
• UI: "Reload shaders" button uses ShaderMake matching build configuration (was Release)
• TAA: fixed color space
• updated dependencies

v4.3.2

NRD updated to v4.3.2:

• UI: merged "Compile shaders" and "Reload shaders" buttons
• UI: show NRD encoding
• added optional roughness randomization
• fixed glitchy animation of floating cubes
• simplified Cmake (requires ShaderMake update)
• fixed regressions
• updated submodules

v4.3.1

NRD updated to v4.3.1:

• UI: added "Compile shaders" button (doesn't require VS environment)
• enabled HLSL 2021 for SPIRV (DXC from WinSDK crashes)
• updated submodules

v4.3.0

NRD updated to v4.3.0:

• PT: hair shading
• PT: optimized instance data
• PT: fixed / improved previous frame reuse
• PT: updated ray offsetting constants
• PT: ignored rays pointing inside the surface
• PT: primary and indirect ray tracing merged into a single pass
• PT: added depth of field
• UI: exposed or changed antilag settings
• added USE_PUDDLES for puddles emulation
• added visualization of "Material ID"
• fixed VK validation errors
• resolution 5120x1440 added to .args
• various convenience changes and bug fixes
• updated tests
• updated dependencies

v4.2.2

NRD updated to v4.2.2:

• PT: fixed shadow penumbra darkening (due to 0 translucency for misses)
• PT: fixed PSR throughput usage for INF pixels
• PT: friendly material overrides for PSRs
• UI: minor improvements
• added USE_INF_STRESS_TEST for NRD testing
• fixed & improved ambient
• removed D3D11 from args
• code cleanup
• refactoring
• updated dependencies

v4.2.1

NRD updated to v4.2.1:

• UI: added "+Z" setting (+/- viewZ)
• UI: added "rZ" setting (reversed depth)
• added test for verifying that NRD doesn't touch data outside of DRS rectangle (disabled by default)
• fixed key-frame animation
• updated dependencies

v4.2.0

NRD updated to v4.2.0:

• PT: better hitT accumulation on emissives
• PT: improved PSR
• PT: improved curvature heuristic for PSR
• PT: added geometry curvature correction by scale
• PT: added optional Russian Roulette usage
• PT: added curvature visualization
• PT: added PSR throughput visualization
• PT: fixed bias in Important Sampling
• PT: fixed glass in ortho mode
• PT: fixed / tuned ambient usage
• PT: fixed / adjusted throughput
• PT: fixed previous frame reuse for specular for low roughness
• PT: fixed MV of dynamic objects in PSR
• PT: fixed prev transform of scaled glass objects
• NRD: anti-firefly enabled in DLSS mode for REBLUR (good cleaner, minimizes confusion cases for DLSS, doesn't add bias)
• UI: highlighted preferred settings
• dropped AssImp
• added Kitchen scene and removed ZeroDay scene
• all assets converted to GLTF
• optimized memory usage a bit
• performance optimizations
• more accurate curvature calculations
• updated README
• updated dependencies
• refactoring

v4.1.2

NRD updated to v4.1.2:

• faster RNG
• performance optimizations
• fixed "allowUpdate" marking