Rendering a car with my own ray-tracer

Many years of effort and working on my software skills have culminated in this one image. Despite what I say in literally the first 5 seconds of this video, this project was NOT easy and definitely did not happen overnight. The following components were all written from scratch in C++ to make this all possible:
- Path-tracer
- Game engine
- Scripting language

In total, this is around 100 thousand lines of code. Unfortunately, this would have been too much to cover in a single video so this is more of a high level overview of the project. In particular, this video covers:
- Modeling a car in Blender
- Building a UI using my own game engine
- Tone mapping, procedural noise and bump mapping
- Direct light sampling

All of the code is open source and can be found on my GitHub.

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Thanks for watching!

[AngeTheGreat]

That moment when thousands of new viewers start watching your old, cringe videos...

[stickguy]

Yes finally someone understands the sole purpose of programming. The flex. And you my guy managed to make me jealous, congrats.

[themechbuilder]

"the easy way to learn something is just to do it the hard way"

you are wise
it works for me

[redsteph]

You've got all my respect... Not only did you write a path-tracer but you made your own car model. This is some serious dedication, holy f$cking sh*t.

[brandonstevens]

I am a high school student and something I often do when programming is just kinda ignore what everyone says and try to reinvent the wheel for everything (one time i tried to write a browser and instead spent 2 weeks designing a completely custom UI engine and after it was complete I realized I am not a fan of browser design). Sometimes this works out but I am most definitely not experienced enough to actually complete most of my projects, however the knowledge I gained on random things like game engine design and operating systems just fascinates me. Seeing that you have been able to do the things that inspire me to pursue software is just amazing

[Ardeact]

That renderer looks incredibly realistic for just from scratch, more realistic than cycles. The power of being able to create a program on whatever you want is quite a flex

[jonathanwilson]

To render a car from scratch in C++, you must first create the universe.

[fiveoneecho]

This is the most relatable programming video I’ve seen yet. “No, <friend>, I’m not going to just clone that repository! If I don’t implement a fully-engineered quadtree myself for this project that is only intended to be a UI study for myself, I didn’t do enough! Gah!”
- definitely me before

[kax]

Normally I don't subscribe when I see a person's only one video but you are the one who broke the chain man

[zipzip]

I think this video is literally unbelievable.

You're 3 incredibly skilled men in a trench coat, and you're fooling nobody.

[VSH_]

You have that nice Technoblade's vibe with all those jokes, narrative style, even with your voice in some cases

The video is cool and I really liked the result and the whole process of making it :)

[ryandaepic]

"The easy way to learn something is to just do it the hard way." - AngeTheGreat 2021

[firecatflameking]

By far one of the most impressive videos overall I've seen on YT

[appuser]

This is potentially low key the best tutorial of the car modelling process I've seen!

[gregor-alic]

"It is very confusing, but it makes sense to me"
You know what, fair enough, i get it

[emj-music]

Your flexing worked. I feel flexed on. Absolutely destroyed.

[actuallydaneel]

hell yeah, another video!
still amazed you're not in the thousands of subs, such underviewed content
keep up the amazing work!

[ferdyg]

this channel is the biggest flex I have seen in a while

[Dadaskis]

"... the easy way to learn something is to just do it the hard way"
I can't tell you how much do i agree with this. Each time i did something massive for me as noob, others said that i'm just a mad guy. But they can't get the fact i just did it for fun, as a way to learn about it more, and as a way to flex.
Thank you for this video! And it's not cringe, believe me

[thedebapriyakar]

Criminally underrated channel. Absolutely incredible