Hello everyone, I'm new to this topic.

[Horus2025]

I'm having trouble understanding how to start and render or work like you do. I have Visual Studio and Visual Code, but I don't know how to execute the files. It's not like Blender or 3ds Max. Does anyone have a very specific guide or could they tell me how to do what they show in the examples? I'm using Windows 11.

You're welcome!

[WannaBeKratos]

I doubt you will find much here.
That said, the examples in the repository work correctly, just follow the instruction on the README.
0) recursively clone the repo, so you get the kernel files in hipbin. (look in the readme !)

1. run the premake in the tutorial folder.
2. build any of the tutorial.
3. Go to tutorial/bin and run the example you build in the terminal ..... something like = ./05_basic_scene64
4. if you are coding something, your self get familiar with the doc https://radeon-pro.github.io/RadeonProRenderDocs/en/sdk/about.html

Good luck!

[Horus2025]

Hello, I saw the steps you sent, but I still don't understand how to get started. I can't even run a single example. What extensions do you have installed and how do I set up the libraries in Visual Studio? I'm getting an error line under what would be the include.h. If you could make videos on this topic from scratch, it would be wonderful, as I can't find a way to run it in Visual Studio on the website or on YouTube. I'm also interested in other programs in the FidelityFX family, such as FEMFX, which I want to learn to use to see how it compares to Physx. Thank you for your understanding, and many thanks.

[WannaBeKratos]

Visual.Studio.Installer.2023-05-12.17-32-26.mp4

Make sure you select the desktop development with c++. After that, follow the steps given above again. If you want to use the library in your own CPP project, you will need to link it. But I suggest getting familiar with the examples first.

[WannaBeKratos]

Another point, maybe you're looking for the blender add-on, Just curious are you a developer ?

[Horus2025]

Good afternoon, I'm interested in developing and compiling code to run it in Visual Studio Code. I'm not interested in the Blender plugin. I've been searching for guides, but I can't find anything, not even on the AMD website. They only explain how it works, but there's no basic guide on how to execute the code or which extensions to use. I'm just asking for a long and comprehensive guide.
I'm interested in techniques like Path Tracing. Besides, the included SDK looks very interesting. I'm eager to try it out and see those scenarios running on my PC.

[NeedsMoar]

A long and comprehensive guide on getting a path tracer to work at the SDK level without enough experience to know where to start looking in the project itself is called "years of study of programming books, mathematics, and modern rendering techniques" and/or "going to college". How are you planning to model things? POVRay style, with a scripted scene definition and hand-coded coordinates? You need something to render before you can render anything at all.

Visual studio code doesn't run compiled code magically in some way that integrates with it, you'd need to write some integration yourself, and once again it falls back to why, it's really more of a good programmer's text editor than a full blown IDE. When you run the Blender plugin, you ARE executing the code, although I wouldn't suggest blender if you have any way of accessing literally anything else. It's an unstable nightmare.