NVIDIA Online GTC Ray Tracing with Vulkan Sessions in October 2020 September 29, 2020 NVIDIA Corporation ​NVIDIA is presenting the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) October 5-9, 2020 online. For those developers looking to learn more about Ray Tracing with Vulkan, there will be 2 Vulkan sessions on October 6th. This session is a highlight reel of code migration from DirectX to Vulkan ray tracing - including missteps, obstacles and insights encountered along the way. We will also cover recommendations for tooling setup and techniques to get your ray tracing journey smoothly underway. More information is available here. Read More...

Blender Addon Enables Authoring of glTF Assets for Use in Microsoft Flight Simulator September 25, 2020 Blender2MSFS - this Blender addon allows you to create 3D assets for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020). The addon is designed for Blender 2.83, and above. MSFS is using the Khronos’ glTF 2.0 file format with multiple custom extensions and extras for special material functions. While Blender 2.8x already ships with a glTF exporter, some changes had to be made to the exporter to facilitate some of the used extensions. These changes come fully integrated into this addon, in the form of modified call functions. These functions will make use of the existing Khronos glTF 2.0 exporter, while inserting some of the custom extensions for MSFS Read More...