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No mention of how to download it - either in the negative "You can't..." or positive. Seems a strange omission.

geoah 8y ago
The creator's website ie mentioned on the article, and code is available on his github[2]. > As Christoph states on his site [1] ... [1] http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt [2] https://github.com/cschied/q2vkpt https://github.com/cschied/q2vkpt
- andybak 8y ago
  That's q2vkpt. It sounds like Quake II RTX is built on top of that but with more features.
  - arianvanp 8y ago
    No I think they are one and the same. q2vpkt is built on top of VK_NV_ray_tracing which is the Vulkan interface to RTX. It won't run on non-nvidia hardware afaik
    - Strom 8y ago
      They're not the same. “But what’s new with Quake II RTX compared to Q2VKPT?”, you ask. A lot. We’ve introduced real-time, controllable time of day lighting, with accurate sunlight and indirect illumination; refraction on water and glass; emissive, reflective and transparent surfaces; normal and roughness maps for added surface detail; particle and laser effects for weapons; procedural environment maps featuring mountains, sky and clouds, which are updated when the time of day is changed; a flare gun for illuminating dark corners where enemies lurk; an improved denoiser; SLI support (hands-up if you rolled with Voodoo 2 SLI back in the day); Quake 2 XP high-detail weapons, models and textures; optional NVIDIA Flow fire, smoke and particle effects, and much more!
steinuil 8y ago
I hope they're going to release it later, after cleaning it up. Quake 2 is GPL'd, so I think they're compelled to, and it would also be a good example of how to use the VKRay API and what it looks like in an actual game.
- Strom 8y ago
  It would be nice if they would release it. However GPL doesn't require them to do so. [1] They only need to give the source to the people whom they also give the binaries. -- [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePos...
bni 8y ago
A Nvidia guy answers this question in the comments with a "Stay tuned"
dahart 8y ago
It’s going to be released, it just hasn’t happened yet.

The creator's website ie mentioned on the article, and code is available on his github[2]. > As Christoph states on his site [1] ... [1] http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt [2] https://github.com/cschied/q2vkpt https://github.com/cschied/q2vkpt

andybak 8y ago
That's q2vkpt. It sounds like Quake II RTX is built on top of that but with more features.
- arianvanp 8y ago
  No I think they are one and the same. q2vpkt is built on top of VK_NV_ray_tracing which is the Vulkan interface to RTX. It won't run on non-nvidia hardware afaik
  - Strom 8y ago
    They're not the same. “But what’s new with Quake II RTX compared to Q2VKPT?”, you ask. A lot. We’ve introduced real-time, controllable time of day lighting, with accurate sunlight and indirect illumination; refraction on water and glass; emissive, reflective and transparent surfaces; normal and roughness maps for added surface detail; particle and laser effects for weapons; procedural environment maps featuring mountains, sky and clouds, which are updated when the time of day is changed; a flare gun for illuminating dark corners where enemies lurk; an improved denoiser; SLI support (hands-up if you rolled with Voodoo 2 SLI back in the day); Quake 2 XP high-detail weapons, models and textures; optional NVIDIA Flow fire, smoke and particle effects, and much more!

steinuil 8y ago

I hope they're going to release it later, after cleaning it up. Quake 2 is GPL'd, so I think they're compelled to, and it would also be a good example of how to use the VKRay API and what it looks like in an actual game.

Strom 8y ago
It would be nice if they would release it. However GPL doesn't require them to do so. [1] They only need to give the source to the people whom they also give the binaries. -- [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePos...

bni 8y ago

A Nvidia guy answers this question in the comments with a "Stay tuned"

dahart 8y ago

It’s going to be released, it just hasn’t happened yet.