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Working on sparse volumetric light maps for WebGPU. Got generation part sorted. The resolution is adaptive, refining near geometry and skipping through most of the empty space. The video is question uses a map that's only 10MB in size, including everything. That's less the amount of GPU memory that... show more

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Working on Sparse Volumetric Light-maps. Thanks to CynicatPro🎃 for pointing me at Unreal's version. In a nutshell it's just another sparse voxel data structure. My implementation is, no doubt, different from Epic Games Store's own. I'm using 4x4x4 probe grid with intermediate nodes having very wide branching factor of 64 as well (4x4x4). I liked the parameters that Unreal is using, of limiting both total memory as well as the lowest level of detail, which is common in sparse grid implementations. Here's Bistro scene with just 1Mb limit. This is roughly equivalent to a 512x512 lightmap texture in 2d, except surface light maps require unique UVs and you typically get very little detail out of 512 resolution texture with a lot of light leaking. There is also no directional response. My implementation encodes second-order spherical harmonics for each probe (9 coefficients), encoding RGB channels as RGBE9995 (4 bytes). So far only worked on the structure, actual bake is yet to come. I've been eyeing sparse voxel structures for a while now, and have been studying them roughly since the GigaVoxel paper by Cyril Crassin but never really implemented anything for the GPU before. I was always the BVH-kind of guy. It's a fascinating topic. --- Stats for the scene: --- Total memory usage: 1.000 MB Node count: 609 Unique probe count: 24,025 Probe reuse: 38.36 % Unexpanded nodes: 15,714 --- Again, note that there is no GI going on here, only the structure of the probe tree and the algorithm for building it from a given scene.

Working on Sparse Volumetric Light-maps. Thanks to CynicatPro🎃 for pointing me at Unreal's version. In a nutshell it's just another sparse voxel data structure. My implementation is, no doubt, different from Epic Games Store's own. I'm using 4x4x4 probe grid with intermediate nodes having very wide branching factor of 64 as well (4x4x4). I liked the parameters that Unreal is using, of limiting both total memory as well as the lowest level of detail, which is common in sparse grid implementations. Here's Bistro scene with just 1Mb limit. This is roughly equivalent to a 512x512 lightmap texture in 2d, except surface light maps require unique UVs and you typically get very little detail out of 512 resolution texture with a lot of light leaking. There is also no directional response. My implementation encodes second-order spherical harmonics for each probe (9 coefficients), encoding RGB channels as RGBE9995 (4 bytes). So far only worked on the structure, actual bake is yet to come. I've been eyeing sparse voxel structures for a while now, and have been studying them roughly since the GigaVoxel paper by Cyril Crassin but never really implemented anything for the GPU before. I was always the BVH-kind of guy. It's a fascinating topic. --- Stats for the scene: --- Total memory usage: 1.000 MB Node count: 609 Unique probe count: 24,025 Probe reuse: 38.36 % Unexpanded nodes: 15,714 --- Again, note that there is no GI going on here, only the structure of the probe tree and the algorithm for building it from a given scene.

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