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Old 19-03-18, 17:57   #1
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Default MS announces new DirectX raytracer API

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3263...-software.html

This is an exciting development. The next step up from rasterization.
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Old 20-03-18, 10:12   #2
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I'm all for lifelike graphics but when is the gameplay going to catch up?
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Old 20-03-18, 10:40   #3
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Ganeplay will catch up when the market demands better gameplay.
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Old 21-03-18, 10:54   #4
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Fascinating article. Lots of words, incredibly vague, and nearly everything that is specific is wrong.

A more detailed explanation can be found at Microsoft’s blog post about this: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dir...tx-raytracing/

It’s interesting, but I wonder what the performance will be like. Ray tracing is a feature that is really not optimal for classic GPU architectures, both because you need global scene information at all times (where is everything and what is it shaped like), and because it’s very incoherent (e.g. on a reflecting sphere, two rays next to each other can require totally different processing depending on what they reflect).
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Old 26-03-18, 10:10   #5
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I'm keeping a tab on this, if such a thing takes off completely it won't be for quite sometime yet.
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