what is ray tracing and how will it improve videogames
What is ray tracing and how will it improve videogames
Liam Robinson
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Caleb Perry
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tl; dr: it renders lights and shadows in a realistic way.
Gavin Myers
Simulates photons bouncing around the environment like in real life instead of the math trickery we have now
Biggest benefits come from moving objects, adding/removing terrain, mirrors, etc and having the lighting and reflections update perfectly and instantly. current games have a "build" step which pre-calculates the lighting and takes a while, limiting what you can change at runtime, raytracing would not need that
Jeremiah Ortiz
im going to ray trace my fist into your head
Parker Mitchell
bloat
Cameron Turner
Jewish tricks to sell you another $2k graphics card.
Kevin Davis
>tfw used to fuck around with ray traced legos in POV-Ray
Isaiah Thomas
thing shinny
game look good
Brandon Howard
Ray tracing is very good system, make games very good, very real. Worth every penny Goy
Hudson Nelson
It emulates how photons work irl vs just drawing shit. It can make even low poly models look pretty good. It's sort of like physx when that came out. Really expensive and retarded because no devs supported it. In like 4-5 years it'll be kind of alright looking if you have a high end pc.
James Gonzalez
pwned
Ryan Rodriguez
How does this improve the gameplay experience?
Josiah Phillips
why do you care? just buy it
Jackson Wood
It doesn't
Jace Lopez
make graphic better
retard buy game more
Cameron Long
Realistic lighting, so that AAA games can be made pretty with even less effort
Hope you like polished turds, though this is nothing new
Josiah Cooper
More things would be moveable
Think of how static games worlds are now aside from a few objects the developer decides can move
Christian Martin
It's more dynamic as said. Honestly it doesn't exactly do much right now, but in a few years once devs have had time to work with it, it will be a piece of the puzzle for the next generation of graphics (hopefully). Basically; nothing, pretty pixels. You can safely ignore it until its built into mainstream games and graphics cards.
Bentley Baker
a meme pc fags started that became reality
Angel Johnson
You can probably do some pretty clever stuff with like light puzzles i.e. the witness
Julian Thompson
It will calculate lighting and reflections in a much more costly and taxing way, but make them more accurate.
Henry Sullivan
Realism, while a tangible benefit, is still only half the story. Devs can already mimic realistic lighting with texture baking techniques. However, tweaking those results to look as intended takes hundreds of man hours just for a single seen. The much greater benefit will be Devs having the ability to achieve realistic lighting results at next to no effort in comparison, a massive leap forward in reducing dev time and thus making games cheaper to develop
Joshua Long
Why couldn't this be done on current gen hardware?
Tyler White
It's a meme that takes way too much processing power that can be better utilised in other aspects.
Lighting in games was perfected years ago.