Luminy Stud... oops no! Luminous Productions - New demo in partnership with Nvidia

Today, at the CEDEC 2019 Japanese video game developer conference, the Luminous team unveiled a new technology demonstration video of its proprietary engine, the so-called Luminous Engine. Entitled Back Stage, it is in direct line with the previous technological demos created by the Luminous team, namely the famous Agni's Philosophy (2012) and Witch Chapter 0 (2015).

Designed in partnership with Nvidia to demonstrate the capabilities of its GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card - which powers this video - the demo is primarily designed to announce the engine's compatibility with ray tracing technology, and more specifically with a rendering algorithm called path tracing. A term that has been increasingly present in the discussions of video game developers in recent years, ray tracing is a method of calculating the lighting of a scene based on the real-time management of the paths of light rays. Sony and Microsoft have already announced that their next-generation consoles - expected next year - will be compatible with this technology.