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DS2LE Path tracing build is now on Nexus as V_0.1. Here are some sample shots. Whole game should be playable end to end. Thanks to all the members from community who were part of the project.

DS3LE-PT In motion Cruxifixon woods. DS3LE volumetrics and path tracing add so much depth to scene here. Very happy with testing , super optimistic of release in few months. I also enable/disable DLSS-5 to show comparision to show what it actually adds to scene www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJkj...

DS3LE-PT adding/updating light sources in Irrythil dungeon.

DS3 has lot of LODS for every mesh. In LE I can add the base LOD to the BVH, as LE doesn't know when the LOD is actually swapped in main view, this will create self-intersection issues, however added a feature to detect these cases and path tracer will do a stronger ray bias

Irithyll Part1 - Darksouls3 Path tracing. Showcases Nvidia Rayreconstruction. Fantastic looking level by default. So no lighting changes here mostly tech changes. SkyFog has been tuned and blends nicely with environment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfCU...

Archdragon Peak - Darksouls3 Path tracing. One of the biggest levels and lot of instances in bvh(10000) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F1f...

Darksouls 3 Pathtracing - Undead settlement updates and the demon area www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGNC...

DS3LE - Pathtracing. Undead settlement, including BVH /Shadows/Reflections are all setup. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N3m...

DS3LE - Pathtracing. Lothric wall - Part1, including BVH Setup/Shadows/Reflections including water are all setup www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixd0...

Extra Shots

Lance got his hands on an old powerpoint presentation that presents a never seen by the public pre-alpha demo. I'm so stoked this surfaced! I posted some reactions in a comment on his video.

DS3LE - Pathtracing. Firelink test, including Gundyr Bossfight. BVH Setup/Shadows/Reflections including water are all setup www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E6f...

Some boss arenas in DS3LE-PT

Translucent shadows in DS2LE - PT. Already had previously demoed it in DS3.

Transclucent Windows/Foliage SSS, also some foliage tex edits from @triviavanille.bsky.social

Twin princes

Sun transclucent shadows and much better window support(sky lighting) in DSLE-PT. Will also be updating DS2LE (Few windows in Drangleic castle later)

DSLE - Editor feature/Subsurface. These meshes are "Static" but are not rendered as normal foliage. So added a feature to mark the Base game meshes as "Foliage", which disables screen-space shadows and also enables transmission/SSS on the leaf meshes

Implemented Caching mechanism for Skinned objects. Now the BLAS is rebuilt only if the mesh has changed enough. The build time drops from 5-6ms down to 0.5ms . Without caching it dropped to 45FPS here. LE uses double buffering and Async build as well for GPU.

Looking for help testing something in Dark Souls 1. Do you have DSR on Playstation, can go online, and have a character with a Red Sign Soapstone? If so I wanna check out some obscure thing that might've been added by QLOC to the remaster.

DS3LE-PT Undead settlement.

Working on improving Foliage shading with subsurface and transmission. DS2LE is using Beubeu Faraam Preset for testing and DS3LE is WIP for release end of year. Thanks to NRD Author Dimitrii Zhdan for guidance on changes with updates to NRD-Sample

just posted 8 minutes of RAW Second Sin forest of fallen giants gameplay. I don't even yap in it. I think it looks cool. shoutout to @dslightingengine.bsky.social for being really easy to work with and fun youtu.be/KQJkdw1iVJ0

new grass tech out today, instancing goes brrrrr, draw distance extended accordingly

Integrating OMM , the latest DXR 1.2 features in LE. Left is AlphaTesting in Shader(Max 5 tries). Right is OMM for the meshes(2 state) and Subdivision level of 6. It saves about 2.5ms to 3ms. Yet to optimize fully like arranging OMM buffers contigously for all meshes.

The Cost of AI alextardif.com/AI.html

Darksouls3 Pathtracing. Archdragon Peak

IM ON THE NEWS!!!!! MY MOD IS ON THE NEWS screenrant.com/legend-of-ze...

DS3-PT. Lothric wall progress. DS3 areas are much brighter than DS2. I held back sun power a lot in DS2. Aerie/Loyce are probably only 2 places where sun is >10000 lux. Most places are cloud or dark.

DS3 - Pathtracing. LightPortals placed in this room to capture windows/doors and cut the ambient lights.

New BA update patches the worst vulnerability I've ever seen in DS2. Here's the update for BA, recommend you get it if you want to play online. I'll explain what it was in the answers to this post. www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/m...

DS3 - Pathtracing, Enabling and integrated features. Volumetrics are now integrated(Note VFOG Shadows are raster). Some out door shots as well, Almost all of firelink is now in BVH