[][rafx-youtube-video]

_Sci-fi base demo scene, [watch TAA demo on youtube][rafx-youtube-video]!_

[Rafx][rafx] is a multi-backend renderer that optionally integrates with the

[distill][rafx-distill] asset pipeline.

Since the previous rafx update in this newsletter (6 months ago!), many new

features have been introduced to improve performance and image quality. The

main rendering pipeline has also been split into "modern" and "basic"

pipelines. Unlike the basic pipeline which focusses on wide compatibility,

the modern pipeline uses forward-clustered lighting and handles hundreds

of shadow-casting lights. It is targeting compute shaders and will be adding

bindless and GPU-driven rendering soon.

Since the last update, the modern pipeline adds GPU-accelierated light binning,

SSAO, shadow map atlasing/caching, TAA with sharpening, and auto-exposure/HDR.

In addition, both modern and basic pipelines now support transparency. A

[video demonstrating TAA](rafx-youtube-video) (temporal anti-aliasing) is

available on youtube.

With these performance improvements, `rafx` is now able to render challenging

scenes with photorealistic style at 60FPS/1440p on modern, mid-range GPUs.

[rafx]: https://github.com/aclysma/rafx

[rafx-youtube-video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWYpX7RGUSA

[rafx-distill]: https://github.com/amethyst/distill