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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed, the industry has lots of tricks for doing authentic looking lighting and reflection, that can be done at a fraction of the performance impact. One day we'll be at a point where hardware raytracing makes sense, but I don't think we're there yet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 24 minutes ago

I'm not even sure that we'll ever get to that point. Plus, it's not compatible with most hardware yet.