Rendering a car with my own ray-tracer

[@AngeTheGreat]

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

[@rowannadon7668]

lol i thought it was good

[@skeletal_hamster3913]

@@rowannadon7668same

[@clonkex]

Cringe? I was astounded by the first render. I wasn't expecting it to immediately just be the thumbnail :O

[@TPM-is5vv]

Most pepole want the efficient way or getting it faster. doing the thing just because u enjoy it is valuable and opens many doors in addition to creativity.

[@GoodlyRogue]

Cringe? I don’t think so. This is awesome

[@stickguy9109]

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

[@BlckPollen]

Damn so your telling me coding is not just for job that pays more then 15 an hour 🤯

[@stickguy9109]

@@BlckPollen Nope that's just secondary

[@milanstevic8424]

@@BlckPollen I can't have that where I live. only flex. I can outsource tho, but I'd rather die. seriously that's because outsourcing makes me die anyway. however, without money I also die, so we have a little paradox going on. in the end, flex > money, don't ever forget that.

[@NathanHedglin]

@@BlckPollen yes to flex that six figure salary, and flex working remotely in your boxers.

[@TodorKatsarski]

Damn, I'm programming for 10+ years and didn't think about the flex. And it's so important and totally true!

[@themechbuilder6171]

"the easy way to learn something is just to do it the hard way" you are wise it works for me

[@cafeiketson2653]

Honestly. I can so relate

[@brandonstevens6886]

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

[@AngeTheGreat]

Reminds me of myself when I was in high school... keep doing what you're doing, it'll pay off! Thanks for watching

[@sourestcake]

This is exactly how i learned programming. 10 years of over-ambitious projects that inevitably failed.

[@brandonstevens6886]

@@sourestcake Thats good to hear! It seems to be working out pretty well so far, and I feel just that extra bit of satisfaction when I make a project and it works out. The fact I can spend hours programming and it just brings me that enjoyment is proof to me its the right thing for me.

[@Rudxain]

It's good to "reinvent the wheel" if you do it for learning and theoretical purposes, not for practical purposes. That's what I do to increase my knowledge frontiers

[@tolkienfan1972]

This is how I did things ~40 years ago. It paid off. I still jump into whatever I happen to be interested in with utter confidence. Don't lose that drive! And don't let common core kill any affinity you may have for math :-)

[@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.

[@qm3ster]

and language. and ui library, with which he then made a dynamic coding environment. 🐴

[@longiusaescius2537]

Huh

[@jonathanwilson8809]

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

[@MarioSuitedUp]

"Now we could be efficient but I'm using my own molecular system."

[@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

[@thebirdhasbeencharged]

Are you on crack? Lol, not to downplay the author's work as this is very impressive but I don't even know where to begin replying to this statement.

[@MattVidPro]

whilst Ange deserves the upmost credit for what he created in this video, I believe the main reason behind the realism is raytracing itself, simulating light produces very realistic imagery!

[@Isaac-zy5do]

@@MattVidPro Cycles is also a raytracer, he is comparing different raytracers

[@HilbertXVI]

@@MattVidPro Ray tracing isn't exactly a new concept...

[@reesespuffs8998]

@@HilbertXVI it has existed since the 1500s, and has been used in computer graphics since I think around the 70s.

[@fiveoneecho]

This is the most relatable programming video I’ve seen yet. “No, , 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

[@helplmchoking]

All the work is always worth it when you sit down to demo a product and can pull the old "I know this just just an X demo, but I whipped this up as well just to check it out" and demo half the finished product. Unnecessary, exhausting, means trading sleep/stress/sanity for frantic typing but the flex must come first

[@zipzip105]

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 :)

[@AngeTheGreat]

Nice to be compared to a real legend! r.i.p to the great one :( Thanks for watching!

[@firecatflameking]

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

[@altus3278]

The ray tracer is cool, but by far not his most impressive project. Check out his physics engine.

[@ryandaepic1838]

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

[@gregor-alic]

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

[@appuser]

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

[@alexa.davronov1537]

It''s not a tutorial at all lol.

[@appuser]

@@alexa.davronov1537 and yet it manages to surpass them all!!!! (was referring to the brief description of the car modelling process which was one of the most complete end-to-end descriptions of the process I'd ever heard), around 2:09 in the video. It's gold.

[@alexa.davronov1537]

@@appuser Nuh. Pretty useless for practical use. Thanksfully, we have source code where we can learn more about that.

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thanks for watching everyone! I really wanted to make this video informative and detailed but to be honest there was just too much to cover... Many of these projects I've been working on in the background for years. I'll cover more specific elements in detail in future videos. Comment below what you want to see!

[@programaths]

Your "node language" is thus "VHDL-like" ^^

[@salimhamidi1483]

Everything ! :)

[@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

[@TwoTeaTee]

Actually!

[@25knightcrawler]

Just found your channel and the quality of your videos are on another level! I've been working on a unidirectional path tracer in glsl on and off for some time now and I've sort of reached the limit with what is easily doable in a fragment shader lol. Seeing this video made me want to go back and try writing a CPU based version with Embree. Would love to see more path tracing/rendering content :)

[@AngeTheGreat]

I've actually seen your stuff on KZbin! In fact, I even starred some of your repos on GitHub, I was really impressed when I saw your work. I haven't done too much with GPU ray-tracing but I was hoping to learn more about it at some point. Embree is definitely some black magic... I'm very intrigued at how they can get such good performance from it so I'm definitely going to look at it in more detail in the future. Anyway, glad you found my videos and thanks for watching!

[@actuallydaneel]

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

[@AngeTheGreat]

I like being underviewed, less pressure lol! Glad you like the video and thanks for watching!

[@Titere05]

I wish I had enough pride to bring these sort of do-it-all-yourself projects to completion

[@AmarylisFlow]

I understood about 0.001% of what was going on but i was hooked from start to finish. Im not even that into cars, or programming but that was impressive. Thumbs up and a sub from your friendly neighbourhood layman, me.

[@jwalster9412]

(I know this video is years old at this point, but here's some blender help) Pro tip for modeling cars in blender: always start with the default cube, split it in two and mirror one side. Never get ahead of yourself, just start with a really basic shape, and only work from the side view, smoothing out the shape, add a row of beams that define the shoulder line of the car, and once that's done (should take around minutes) , add curves to the front and back, then you need to add the actual shoulder, (do this from the top view) add a small subdivision across the length of the car, very close to the edge. Now remove the faces on the window above the defined shoulder line, and the faces on the outside edge of the roof and windshield. Fill in the side windows by selecting the beams across the roof, and fill in with CTRL F (I might be wrong with the key bindings it is late at night) use the knife tool to separate the window down into smaller sections hat connect with the upper roof/windows sections. Fill.in the gap below the window on the shoulder line by selecting the beam at the bottom of the window, and selecting the beam on the outer side of the shoulder line while holding shift+CTRL. This should select fallow the path of least resistance and speed up filling in the shoulder gap. Make sure when you get to the last section to select all the sides around the hole so it connects properly. I hope this makes sense, I hope it helped you.

[@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 find!!!!!!!!!

[@unknownunknown6531]

the amount of work is incredible

[@AHSEN.]

Without exaggeration, you deserve over 5 million subscribers. For sure. Probably more. Even creating such a nice car model and render in Blender is an incredibly difficult and time consuming task. To then render it with a custom renderer and get a BETTER result is absolutely incredible. Congratulations on the successful project, and good luck for the future of your channel!

[@NicolasGirls]

I didn't understand a single thing you said but I still watched your tremendous video until the end.

[@GraveUypo]

I'm learning unreal engine 5 and caught covid this week, so i'm stuck home. but i still haven't felt like touching ue5 ever since i got sick. this video changed that, ty. back to the grind

[@Matthew314]

Man I LOVED this video. The mood, the music, your voice, everything. And it made me laugh loudly more than a couple times. That's an earned subscription, keep up the good work! (And that Maserati is so sexy, anyway)

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thank you, I very much appreciate the kind words. I worked a long time on this project lol... Glad you liked the video and welcome to the channel!

[@not_herobrine3752]

underrated youtuber

[@AngeTheGreat]

Better than being overrated I guess, thanks!

[@Ashinle]

Really like the humour in this haha. Yet still was very educating.

[@DarkSwordsman]

I can't really express how awesome it is to find someone like you. You have some of the same core philosophies that I do (building everything from scratch LOL) and I always have been interested in this level of programming and creation. Everything you do is what I've wanted to do at heart and it's amazing to see it materialized in such a way. Also, I'm sure you get told this a lot, but you are a wizard. I will be watching closely and surely I'll be playing with any software you release.

[@JanWalzer]

I loved to see the capture of the old blender at the beginning ... reminds me of the time back then ...

[@AngeTheGreat]

Yeah it was very nostalgic for me, that's why I included it haha

[@rand0mtv660]

Why did youtube wait so much to recommend me this vide??. This is amazin. Love your style and the way you talk and present things.

[@ferdyg3520]

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

[@sircitrus]

Glad I discovered this channel! Realised this is the type of video I want to make, things that don't make any sense. So I am going to do just that. Don't know much about game development but let's see lmao. More seriously though, enjoyed this video!

[@iba001]

Your love of learning is so inspiring thanks for sharing!

[@dannybrickwell]

When your only approach to solving problems is brute force but you're also a supergenius

[@Stenjus]

I feel you so much when at the first opportunity you will instantly give up on searching for "out of the box" decisions and start making your own from scratch learning and learning the new stuff. It's so familiar to me, despite the fact I'm not even close to all your knowledge and skills. This little thing makes you such a gorgeous master of tech and code. My colossal respect is your's sir, so I definitely subscribed. PS. I am actually surprised you didn't invent the blender to model you car, and after this maybe an OS as well.. And PC... And so on :D

[@emj-music]

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

[@sketchtheme]

Hey, the founder of this channel. I am new here, I really liked your videos. I was so bored with programming and have been spending almost a week doing nothing but gaming. And your videos gave me motivation, to get back. I really love the way you make your videos, clean and detailed explanations. Hope you will reach more sub numbers soon!

[@zdtuttauniversity2715]

dude this video really hit home- it was helpful to see your process, your mistakes, and your success! Thanks for sharing :)

[@user-en3np7hu6m]

I truly admire your ability to explain things with a distinctive blend of sarcasm, technical precision, and unique style. And I can assure you that I'm not here because of The Algorithm. I stumbled upon this content during my own search and now find myself happily delving deeper into its fascinating intricacies. Oh and did I mention I subscribed ? Keep up the "great" work!

[@kingpixel3d128]

great job mate, it is amazing wow

[@automobilistic]

This is very cool! Great result and the obscurity of the subject car was the icing on the cake for me haha

[@rstreno]

You take "yak shaving" to a whole new level!

[@kerhabplays]

BRUUUUH! YOU ARE A REAL LEGEND! Your engine > Cycles tho ..BIG RESPECT! new sub here

[@DiveTheseClips]

As a software engineer I am amazed. The amount of dedication and motivation you have is astounding.

[@DarkSwordsman]

11:28 I recently learned Blender lets you change the sequencer so you can go from sRGB (which is standard) to Linear ACES and a few others. Or you can just export Linear into EXR or something and do your own tone mapping if you wish.

[@dawidrozmus301]

This is funny, entertaining and most importantly its informative. Congrats to you and thanks for this piece of work :D

[@itscrewston6684]

Just watched two of your videos and you’re literally genius, I don’t even do programming

[@Not_Glitchy2023]

You are a living god among n, a legend worthy of praise. What you've uploaded here, will echo into eternity!

[@miigon9117]

Like the charm. That was an instant sub! Also like the quote "the easy way to do something, is just to do it the hard way"

[@tolkienfan1972]

This is do weird. I've been writing a path tracer. It's generating some cool images, and I've been thinking about which features to add next. I've been thinking about afding a UI. Another thing I've been thinking is that a cool scene would help drive the next set of features... And I was thinking about a car! Then YT recommends this. It's a cool video, and I love your personality.

[@12crenshaw]

I just lost faith that I will accomplish anything in my life since just one of your projects would be a complete life success for me. How am I supposed to compete against this guy?

[@MichaelPohoreski]

_Investing in yourself_ is not a competition. *Success builds momentum.* The secret to any big project is to keep breaking it down into smaller projects. (The eating an elephant parable.)

[@jenkathefridge3933]

Use the guy as a motivator to reach your goal.

[@qm3ster]

Do you seriously not have a video about the language? It seems genuinely sensible and useful.

[@natekwezi9242]

My man managed to program a ray tracer, a game engine, and a programming language in one video. I'm disappointed you forgot to program an operating system. Otherwise great work😆

[@DamienKoda]

"I'm disappointed you forgot to program an operating system. Otherwise great work" LOL

[@loscochineros3391]

It Worked perfectly after trying other methods this one was the best one, Thanks.

[@pinch-of-salt]

What a legend! That too in c and also your own language is pretty cool!!

[@stacksmasherninja7266]

Ah yes, "my router reduced to atoms so I had to build it from scratch" Happens to the best of us ! Fr tho, this looks pretty sick. Keep it up

[@julianrom]

Some really incredible work here and damn if those final renders don't look fantastic

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thank you and thanks for watching! Hopefully this is just the beginning ✌

[@PaulGeraskin]

Hard work. The result is awesome! Thank you for sharing.

[@octaviosilva5808]

Nah bro, this man is too smart. He mentions some incredible thing he did, and brushes off to say about the next incredible thing he did

[@Alan_Hans__]

Congrats on making by far the best model of a Tipo 151. Never seen anything up to this standard before :D Most of the video was complete gibberish but I'm blown away nonetheless. Despite what 1 of the guys in the comments said this video is not the slightest cringe.

[@daddymaniacc]

Highly underrated, like holy shit.

[@GeneralKenobi69420]

I rarely say "This should have 1000x more views" because most of the time frankly I can sort of see why it's not the case, but holy shit I genuinely mean it this time. Just keep making videos and I guarantee you you'll get to 100,000 subs in no time. Insane.

[@animaux1999]

Fantastic work ! - The images your ray-tracer produces are very impressive. I would love to see a more in-depth video about the individual components of the path-tracer, could be very educational.

[@_creare_2742]

I love your text based node language thing That thing looks amazing to edit images

[@Shalelolz]

You are a literal madman

[@sel4785]

This man is maybe the most productive coder of all time

[@mahmoudiamir]

Bro... Even the car modeling is mind boggling for me, the rest is pretty much like a dream for me 😅great job bro

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thanks man 🙏 It was a real struggle but I learned a lot from this project

[@MidnightSt]

(At the end of the video) wait... you're... YOU'RE THE SAME GUY WHO WROTE HIS OWN PHYSICS ENGINE AND THEN BUILD AN ENGINE+SOUND SIMULATOR ON TOP OF IT. And now this. Oh my god.

[@theomaia1460]

this man is unstoppable

[@JoaoSilva22222]

Man you are a genius!

[@Norman_Fleming]

Learning by doing it the hard way. Sounds right to me. You really don't appreciate the easy way until you have beat your head on the wall yourself.

[@evanmccloy5643]

broooo i'm loving all your videos - right now it's like you're doing everything that i wanted to do but actually succeeding hahahaahahahahah

[@visaac]

You've coded direct light sampling then its not path-tracer anymore, but an actual bi-directional ray-tracer, and it can do lots of cool stuff which even Cycles can not do in its current state Truly fascinating

[@compsciorbust9562]

I love this channel. Subbed.

[@echo.ichigo]

You are the Kris Kosta of your Programming. there is a Guy in our Artist Community. He does things like you manually just to Flex. Though you do it more raw. Thus more respect to you. Love it brother

[@trevortrevose9124]

Wait what he made his own language and added syntax highlighting that's the true flex

[@pablito4323]

This is just next level flexing, very cool content, keep it up!

[@maurosciarra8988]

Woah, great video mate!

[@quote_red_pv4601]

With the over saturation in blender u have to change in color management in view transform from RGB to Filmic and that should fix it but idk for sure

[@MrMOG91]

"The easy way to learn something is to do it the hard way" - stealing this quote

[@poof3642]

I love the getting over it music at the end

[@wazzer6s793]

Wow at last a soft tutorial I can follow! you sir are a genius

[@jeancarlofalabella1195]

eyoo, these videos are pog. Keep it up!

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thank you! More are coming for sure, thanks for watching!

[@rxn7]

i love your video editing style

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thank you! Hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!

[@xcy0n]

In my youth about 14 yo I also ended up where you did modeling a car in C4D 😂.. rendering abstract stuff was so cool tho.

[@TinyMaths]

'The first thing I tried to do was model a car' That sounds like the way I started with blender... after several train wrecks I recognized my delusion and went back to making very simple objects; and progressed from there. I gotta say, your first attempt was definitely better than mine. I only got as far as the door of a 1960's Mini Cooper. I'm several attempts in now, and getting slowly better; the most recent one almost looks like a car. glad to know I've got a few more years before I get to the 73rd step in your '73 easy steps' guide.

[@GraveUypo]

the secret is to accept that everything you want to make is at least 5 times as much work as your worst predictions.

[@leonmusk1040]

Awesome choice of vehicle to boot.

[@tyelork]

Ange The Great flexing on us fellow game devs all the way back two years ago 😭🤣

[@Harrisburgharrryy]

It is more complicated than software engineering data structures and algorithms salute you sir 👏 🙌 💯

[@altus3278]

Well, there are many algorithms involved into a ray tracer if you wanna think about it that way... Main difference is that you have to learn about some really complex linear algebra.

[@milanstevic8424]

as Adobe professional, just wanted to say that Adobe perhaps should contact you.... sigh Piranha, if I caught the name correctly, is a wonderful concept for a language you and I, sir, think very similarly, because I made a node based procedural modeller called it, sigh, apex. you know, Ape X, it's a nod to DirectX I guess. sigh then I had to do an AST expression evaluator OBVIOUSLY ... well, it's a rabbit's hole I managed to do and flex a lot, erm, I basically learned how to model from the ground up I did UV projections as well as unwrapping, seams, smoothing, learned a throng of algorithms etc (didn't do beveling tho, it was kinda insane with how complex it was) until I fired up Blender for the first time in life and (semi)knew my way around then I decided maybe I should use Blender and make something else, like games thank you for your videos

[@PeterFaria]

I feel like I’m playing “getting over it”. Your voice is giving me PTSD lol.

[@mad_man_86]

Show-off ;D Seriously impressive!

[@mostafahamad8054]

This is the best free software Ive seen. Respect.

[@DarxDev]

man is a humble legend like vertexbanana

[@AngeTheGreat]

I checked out vertexbanana and he really is a legend! Thanks for watching 🙏

[@blackbonestudio6189]

You're genius, you inspired a lot of young people like me to be like you, i hope i can be like you someday.

[@and_ppv]

That is the most insane thing I have ever seen

[@christofstanits]

excellent flex! render me impressed