Just posted, almost 40 minutes long.
Specs:
Ryzen 3900X
RTX 2080 Ti
4K DLSS (1080p internal)
60fps (mid-50s or lower when underwater)
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Digital Foundry: Minecraft RTX Beta Hands-On: How Path-Tracing Is A Gamechanger
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Just posted, almost 40 minutes long.
Specs:
Ryzen 3900X
RTX 2080 Ti
4K DLSS (1080p internal)
60fps (mid-50s or lower when underwater)
I'm excited to try this. How do you actually get into the beta?
edit: Found it. Gotta launch the Xbox Insider app in Windows 10, then look for the Minecraft beta.
edit: Found it. Gotta launch the Xbox Insider app in Windows 10, then look for the Minecraft beta.
He does. In minecraft he just does not exist unless you choose the 3rd person option.
Like a lot of FPS games, minecraft cheats to make its first person and has separate non existing first person models and culls away a 3rd person model.
I presume in the future they will have to change the way minecraft works so that you can see yourself in reflections (but even then it would not line up perfectly since the first person view is just a hack anyway).
You can now make puzzles and gameplay entirely based upon the principles of light. That is a pretty big change. If you dramatically change a game's lighting, you change the gameplay quite a lot.
Have you tried inviting other users into your world to test it out? Not just third-person view, but multi-player.
I played a bit with the developers while interviewing them. You can see their models reflected in the path tracing and them bouncing light of themselves, just not your own model since (like I mentioned) Minecraft cheats like a lot of games. They will have to make a hacky work around to have the thirdperson model also render at the same time.
Yeah, the combo of DLSS and RT is really interesting, since the performance was always the killer for RT. Still, DF have a hefty rig there but DLSS is sure to get more updates to performance.
I guess? The stupid MS store says it's up to date when I look for updates
Go to the insider app, click Minecraft, then click manage. Their should be an RTX build to opt in to. then wait for the registration to activate.
I was in the wrong beta channel. Fixed. Gonna try this out, thanks!
edit: Oh my god, now I'm pending approval for entering the RTX beta. Fuck!
I am sure people will downplay it but its really is amazing to see in games.
I can't wait until people start building movies out of pistons and redstone programming.
Ive been like this for 15 minutes :/
What a stupid way to enter an open beta
This is so cool, realistic lighting is one of the things that I'm most excited about in the future.
I think they're running a server side system spec check to make sure you actually have a 2060 or higher.
I'm getting this too. I have an RTX card so I guess I just need to be patient.Xbox Insider Hub having some....difficulties...
I actually managed to get all the way to the point of selecting RTX beta before it gave me an error earlier, now I can't even get past the insider content screen
Do not sleep on this, folks. The "puzzle" testing room provided in the RTX Beta is rudimentary in terms of its puzzles, but once you see how it plays out, there's some brain-splosion stuff in terms of dreaming of what else game makers could do with it. I also go into the incredible sense of wonder provided by the way light naturally plays out in the course of an average Minecraft experience in my own article (which I won't link here cuz I'm not here to try and swipe clicks from DF's work).
Thanks for the deep dive, Team DF.
You already got a response, but the biggie to clarify: once you're defintively *IN* the RTX version of the beta, go into its Minecraft marketplace and search for "RTX." You should get some world options that are all labeled RTX and are all free to download. Loading these worlds will turn RTX on by default. You need their specific RTX resource packs (which come with the world downloads) for the RTX options to turn on.
Yeah, you can actually make a movie projector with some block programming :)
Not until you import it with an RTX resource pack attached, and other steps. It's SO SIMPLE:
Minecraft World Conversion Guide, For Bedrock and Minecraft with RTX
Follow our unofficial Minecraft with RTX guide to convert your Minecraft Java worlds to Minecraft Windows 10 Bedrock edition, enabling them to be enhanced with PBR textures and path-traced ray tracing.
www.nvidia.com
...it's not a one-click process, at any rate, but it's doable.
