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After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft.

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There might be a good reason for this. Raster effects were already really good in newer games, and ray tracing could only improve on that high bar. It’s filling in details that are barely noticeable, but creap ever so slightly closer to photorealism.

Old games start from a low bar, so ray tracing has dramatic improvement.

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als@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Teardown has wonderful raytracing but again they’re not going for photo realism

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BeliefPropagator@discuss.tchncs.de
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Note that teardown does not use hardware ray tracing.

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