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[–] jj4211 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While true for straight up reflection and glass the raytracing doesn't do much despite being much more expensive, it is just jaw dropping to see refraction and indirect lighting. Before to have indirect lighting be vaguely credible it had to be all fixed and baked into the textures. Now we can do that with destructible stuff and moving light sources.

[–] bruhduh 1 points 9 months ago

You're absolutely right, but nobody would use ray tracing with destructible stuff because nobody makes destructible stuff like in red faction nowadays