Ray tracing experiment on the Xbox 360.
This project is an Xbox 360 port of TheCherno's RayTracing renderer built entirely on YouTube in a fantastic series. The Cherno implemented a CPU-side ray tracer but this project utilizes the GPU as much as possible to do the heavy calculations.
There is currently a bug when running the code on real hardware. The image is split in half and forms 2 triangles, the bottom right triangle renders properly but the upper left one doesn't.
It looks like a strange behavior of the IDirect3DDevice9::Resolve implementation on Xbox 360 because the bug doesn't occur in Xenia. It seems to happen when sampling from a texture that was written to using IDirect3DDevice9::Resolve.
If anyone has any explanation or a potential fix, feel free to open an issue and/or a pull request!
- Having the Xbox 360 Software Development Kit (XDK) installed.
Open X360RayTracing.sln in Visual Studio.
Note: Using Visual Studio 2010 is the only way to run X360RayTracing in a debugger (sadly).
You can't build with the 64-bit version of MSBuild so you'll need to run the 32-bit version manually. Open PowerShell (which can be done in View > Terminal in Visual Studio) and run the following command:
# Create an alias to the 32-bit version of MSBuild named msbuild
# The default installation path of VS2022 is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community
Set-Alias msbuild "<path_vs2022>\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe"To debug X360RayTracing, you need to build and run the debugger from Visual Studio 2010.
To build X360RayTracing in release mode, deploy it to the console and launch it there, start a release build, either through the Visual Studio interface or with the following command:
msbuild /p:Configuration=ReleaseTo build X360RayTracing and run it in Xenia, start a build with the Xenia configuration, either through the Visual Studio interface or with the following command (Xenia will be downloaded automatically the first time you run the command):
msbuild /p:Configuration=Xenia