VQE-v0.9.0 - FidelityFX: Stochastic Screen-Space Reflections, SPD, Denoiser

RELEASE NOTES

Features

Rendering

• FidelityFX Stochastic Screen Space Reflections (SSSR)
• FidelityFX Single-Pass Downsampler (SPD)
• FidelityFX Denoiser (DNSR)
• Motion Vectors
• Scene Render Visualization Modes
  • Lit
  • Depth
  • Normals
  • Roughness
  • Metallic
  • AO
  • Motion Vectors
  • Albedo

Engine

• Graceful exit with error reporting upon device lost instead of crashing
• Extended EngineSettings.ini: added EnvironmentMapResolution, Reflections options
• Improved shader compilation
  • PIX can now debug SM6 shaders
  • Extended support for DXC compiler flags
  • Release/Debug shaders are now separately cached
• Added more built-in materials: Checkerboard_Glossy, Checkerboard_Rough, Checkerboard_Metallic, MetallicBlack_VerySmooth

Scenes

• Default scene: assigned PBR material to the ground, swapped cylinder with the boombox model, load an environment map
• Stress Test scene: crank up object count, add randomized materials with compile-time toggles

Bug Fixes

• Fixed RenderDoc not being able to attach / device lost upon launch
• Fixed build script failing with file paths with spaces in them
• Fixed shader include path not resolving correctly
• Fixed assertion when the window is minimized