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Minecraft Ray Tracing Live Play: A Path Traced Showcase? | Digital Foundry
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Watching now, it's beautiful.
Is this just normal minecraft with path tracing and no new shaders or textures?
Is this just normal minecraft with path tracing and no new shaders or textures?
This looks amazing. Though they mention that this is through a software solution & had to be run at 720p/30fps on even a powerful GPU. So I'd imagine that games that capitalize on dedicated ray-tracing cores would be more efficient, right?
The shader is the path tracer, it's called ptgi, path-traced global illumination. It also does ray traced shadows and reflections. You can use whatever textures you want, though it works best with texture packs that take advantage of specular and normal maps.
Still watching and laughed out loud at times when Alex was showing John around his creations. Very reminiscent of how a realtor shows around prospective clients XD
You think we'll see any launch games on either console with full tracing/GI?
this is probably the most impressive showcase of raytracing, and how it affects the look of a game.
So right.
Good bounce lighting makes everything so much better.
If people start coding Ray Tracing into older games replaying them will be glorious.
lol was that the Mass Effect death music I heard when that cow died?
Yep. This was a brilliant demo that shows that raytracing will be far more than reflections on shiny surfaces. It can drastically change how games will look.
This is why it will be the defining feature of next gen.
Yep. This was a brilliant demo that shows that raytracing will be far more than reflections on shiny surfaces. It can drastically change how games will look.
This is why it will be the defining feature of next gen.
Dont expect 60 at 4K
Depending on the environment you make, 60 at 1080 should be doable a more complicated environment and you might have to drop res or survive with lower framerates.
YOu can get it from here:
Sonic Ether
To see guys like John being speechless is incredible.
He was right, it reminds me a lot of the Half Life 2 demo.
He was right, it reminds me a lot of the Half Life 2 demo.
John and I had so much fun making this video, and I had an absolute blast making the demo level after I figured out how to get the mod working (which is not exactly straight forward by the way!).
Other than the SEUS PTGI mod itself we used the "default + improve + 1.12" txture mod to add some specularity in there - but that is it.
If anyone would like a link to the level to check it out for themselves, I could post that too!
Other than the SEUS PTGI mod itself we used the "default + improve + 1.12" txture mod to add some specularity in there - but that is it.
If anyone would like a link to the level to check it out for themselves, I could post that too!
Hell yes. And I'd definitely replay some of the older classics with full path tracing. To revisit old familiar places with proper lighting & a new shine, oh how glorious it will be.
Man, anything that makes vanilla Minecraft look genuinely amazing and beautiful MUSt be awesome.
I remember when Sonic Ether first started this project years ago. SurprisedMS hasn't snatched him up haha. They guy is incredible, and also has similar assets for Unity.
Thanks for the video!
Thanks for the video!
Raytracing is incredible, but good lord is it power hungry. Incidentally I'm extremely suspect of any of these 'ray-tracing on PS5/Anaconda claims'. It'll be supported sure, there'll be solutions yup. Will it be common? Eh.
with the PS5 and Xbox 2 out next year, we'll see RT on consoles as soon as E3 next year
For indie games with low poly assets and such, it will be a boon. I can see it making highly stylized games like SuperHOT look incredible. For AAA games obviously it's a no-go unless you like your framerates in the single digits.
It's interesting how raytracing and VR are two techs that finally makes the future exciting. I felt like games had hit a ceiling with realism, or rather were realistic enough for me that I didn't much care about them being more so. But the possibility of high-resolution VR games with raytracing in the (probably far) future gives me something to look forward to, hopefully within my lifetime. :D
Would be awesome if that were the case. I could imagine both Halo Infinite and Horizon Zero Dawn 2 using this tech. Horizon's lightning already looked great, and now imagine what an uprgrade ray tracing would be...
Thanks for the video, very fascinating to have it broken down like this! Since 30fps is below my G-Sync range though I don't think I'll buy access to the pre-release shaders with my GTX 1070.
Yeah, fair point. Technically we even had a few console games with crude ray-tracing solutions this generation, including The Tomorrow Children and upcoming Dreams.
Thanks. Now share the shader files please. ;P
Will subscribe to the Patreon. Beautiful work.
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It looks good but it's chugging while Minecraft is being played. AAA games will kill your frames.