SvennoJ on 31 August 2012
| FrancisNobleman said: Thing about ray tracing is that to the eyes of a normal gamer, and many of us, the presence or absence of this feature doesn't have significant impact on the visuals. Ray tracing on paper sounds awesome, but then you google videos about it and you're like: "hmmm so, ray tracing is exactly what ?" I remember I've saw a video of 3 paired PS3 running linux yellow dog and a ray traced scenario with cars... If I was told that it was just random footage from a random racing game, I would have believed. But there was actually tech running right there that was leaps beyond this current gen... |
Well I haven't seen a naturally lit looking outdoor scene yet, but you're right we can come pretty close with all the tricks that haven been used over the years.
One big advantage of getting ray tracing to work is that there is no more need of that huge book of tricks anymore which can speed up development immensely. In the end ray tracing will start to become more cost effective then infinitely refining and adding to the myriad of lighting, mirroring and shadowing techniques we have now.
