VK_NV_ray_tracing_motion_blur

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Last Modified Date

2021-06-16

Interactions and External Dependencies

• This extension provides API support for GL_NV_ray_tracing_motion_blur

Contributors

• Eric Werness, NVIDIA
• Ashwin Lele, NVIDIA

Description

Ray tracing support in the API provides an efficient mechanism to intersect rays against static geometry, but rendering algorithms often want to support motion, which is more efficiently supported with motion-specific algorithms. This extension adds a set of mechanisms to support fast tracing of moving geometry:

• A ray pipeline trace call which takes a time parameter
• Flags to enable motion support in an acceleration structure
• Support for time-varying vertex positions in a geometry
• Motion instances to move existing instances over time

The motion represented here is parameterized across a normalized timestep between 0.0 and 1.0. A motion trace using OpTraceRayMotionNV provides a time within that normalized range to be used when intersecting that ray with geometry. The geometry can be provided with motion by a combination of adding a second vertex position for time of 1.0 using VkAccelerationStructureGeometryMotionTrianglesDataNV and providing multiple transforms in the instance using VkAccelerationStructureMotionInstanceNV.

New Structures

• VkAccelerationStructureMatrixMotionInstanceNV
• VkAccelerationStructureMotionInstanceNV
• VkAccelerationStructureSRTMotionInstanceNV
• VkSRTDataNV
• Extending VkAccelerationStructureCreateInfoKHR:
  • VkAccelerationStructureMotionInfoNV
• Extending VkAccelerationStructureGeometryTrianglesDataKHR:
  • VkAccelerationStructureGeometryMotionTrianglesDataNV
• Extending VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, VkDeviceCreateInfo:
  • VkPhysicalDeviceRayTracingMotionBlurFeaturesNV

New Unions

• VkAccelerationStructureMotionInstanceDataNV

New Enums

• VkAccelerationStructureMotionInstanceTypeNV

New Bitmasks

• VkAccelerationStructureMotionInfoFlagsNV
• VkAccelerationStructureMotionInstanceFlagsNV

New Enum Constants

• VK_NV_RAY_TRACING_MOTION_BLUR_EXTENSION_NAME
• VK_NV_RAY_TRACING_MOTION_BLUR_SPEC_VERSION
• Extending VkAccelerationStructureCreateFlagBitsKHR:
  • VK_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_CREATE_MOTION_BIT_NV
• Extending VkBuildAccelerationStructureFlagBitsKHR:
  • VK_BUILD_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_MOTION_BIT_NV
• Extending VkPipelineCreateFlagBits:
  • VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_RAY_TRACING_ALLOW_MOTION_BIT_NV
• Extending VkStructureType:
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_GEOMETRY_MOTION_TRIANGLES_DATA_NV
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_MOTION_INFO_NV
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_RAY_TRACING_MOTION_BLUR_FEATURES_NV

Issues

(1) What size is VkAccelerationStructureMotionInstanceNV?

• Added a note on the structure size and made the stride explicit in the language.

(2) Allow arrayOfPointers for motion TLAS?

• Yes, with a packed encoding to minimize the amount of data sent for metadata.

Version History

• Revision 1, 2020-06-16 (Eric Werness, Ashwin Lele)
  • Initial external release