[$100 Bounty] Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination

[Naxela]

A working implementation of Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination (DDGI) will release the bounty of $100 on Bountysource.

Suggested implementation (Optional):

• An option that is selectable in the SSGI dropdown menu

Implementation material (Inspiration):

• https://morgan3d.github.io/articles/2019-04-01-ddgi/
• https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/an-engineers-guide-to-integrating-ddgi/
• https://github.com/guoxx/DDGI

Bountysource Link:
https://app.bountysource.com/issues/111898136-100-bounty-dynamic-diffuse-global-illumination

[e2002e]

My advise is stick to free work, opensource developers who have time (like me) will work together when there is no payout, otherwise everyone will be working on his own an try to go faster than the others, like a lurking deadline as the payout isn't even worth it.

[Naxela]

@e2002e Do you mean for this topic (DDGI) or more like in general for bounties? I asked on the discord about this and the response was generally positive. With that being said, I'll keep it in mind since this was mainly a one time thing to see if there could be an incentive for new developers to start developing. If it doesn't workout we'll just refrain from doing more of these bounties on the future.

[e2002e]

I understand that there is need for people who just can do these things .i.e they'r out of school with the knowledge to do these precise tasks. But these guys find jobs in company before they even end up their formations.
Personally I'm really motivated about this, but I'd need to read a lot of docs, post questions in forums, and dedicate my time to it. My problem with the bounties is that I will make this a race, which is not a good working condition. As far as I'm concerned, I don't want to invest time on this to realize that someone with experience in raytracing did the job in a few days.

[Naxela]

I can see how that can be a problem in terms of the racing, if it was to become the case. At the moment I don't expect that the bounties will be released anytime soon, but I might be wrong. In any case, if it does become a race with the current bounty format/setup I'm also very open to suggestions about other ways of doing this.

[OkyDooky]

It sounds like these need to be presented in a more "open dialogue" fashion. @e2002e 's concern sounds valid, but might be curbed somewhat by inviting someone to stake some initial claim to the task before beginning work on it. This could prevent the frantic racing or the potentially wasted work from other developers redundantly developing their own solutions.
However, a concern with that approach that I can see is the opposite occurring, where other developers begin sitting on their hands, waiting to see if the initial stake claimer delivers on their promise or not. This also may be addressed by having their progress be done openly, as well.
But, I'm just a lay person and not a developer or project manager, so these are just thoughts.