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:
Pathtracer
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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