PRay

PRay is a parallelized Raytracer that is supposed to run in a client-server mode via TCP sockets.

Demos

• demo_00_standalone_test.sh
• demo_01_standalone_bille.sh
• demo_02_standalone_suzanne.sh
• demo_03_server_4-clients.sh

Standalone mode

pray_client --standalone --file=file.xml

Camera control (AZERTY keyboard)

Key	Action
z	translate forward
s	translate backwards
d	translate right
q	translate left
r	translate up
f	translate down
a	roll left
e	roll right
up	pitch up
down	pitch down
left	yaw left
right	yaw right
m	switch mode (camera or scene)

Client/server mode

pray_server --port=port
pray_client --server=IP --port=port [--fork]

Commands

Command	Action
scene <path>	Define scene file
render	Launch render
ESC / End	Quit

Settings

Both pray_client and pray_server read settings.xml in the current directory.

Build

cmake .
make

Dependencies (to build and run on a GNU/Linux platform)

• CMake (2.8+)
• make (or some CMake-supported IDE)
• C++ compiler with C++11 & OpenMP support
• pthread
• SDL
• tinyxml
• ncurses

Ubuntu 20.04

sudo apt-get install cmake make g++ libsdl1.2-dev libtinyxml-dev libncurses-dev

CentOS 8

sudo dnf install epel-release
sudo dnf install cmake make gcc-c++ SDL-devel tinyxml-devel ncurses-devel