A ray tracing engine that renders scenes comprised of 3D objects and lights.
RayTracer is run via comand line with a mandatory scene file parameter. The maximum recursion depth of internal reflections in spheres 10.
This project was originally compiled using g++ and on linux. It was later converted to a VC++ project for Windows.
GLUT (or freeglut) is required to build and run RayTracer.
Example locations for Visual Studio 2017
| File | Location |
|---|---|
| glut.h | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\include\gl |
| glut32.lib | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\lib\x64 |
| glut32.dll | C:\Windows\SysWOW64 |
RayTracer.exe
Example command
RayTracer.exe .\Scenes\sceneA.txt
Scene file examples are in the Scene directory.
Scene example output images are in the Screenshots directory.