Hydra Delegate Path Tracer

Every once in a while, The University of Utah Realistic Computer Graphics group runs a rendering competition where the only rule is to render the famous Utah Teapot using a renderer you write yourself. Given my current love affair with OpenUSD, I decided to make my renderer a Hydra Delegate. This means that my renderer can be plugged into any modern DCC's viewport! AND I get all of the benefits of OpenUSD. This made it so I could put together this little scene in under two days using Substance Painter and Blender.

 

Renderer Features:

• Fully path traced using Multiple Importance Sampling (MIS)

• Physically Based Material model (based on Cook-Torrence microfacet model)

• Linear color workflow

• and more!