Indirect lighting is real time. Colour can mix in real time.
It's down to devs to implement.
Splinter Cell is coming with raytracing, that's what I want to hear!
Maybe he meant how does raytracing can affect Minecraft gameplay? I'm not an expert, but its consist only of building/crafting, but not puzzles? Also dynamism of lighting has huge lag judging by your video.
For the beta, the quality setting is fixed. 1080p's native is 720p while 1440p is 835p (quality and balanced respectively)
RT light puzzles is something I can see Nintendo losing their shit on
Didn't know they added that. Will look more into itIf you want to play with ray traced depth-of-field effects, download Quake II RTX. It was not present in the initial release, but Nvidia patched in lots of new features around January, including much improved metallic surface textures and the photo mode.
The photo mode is fantastic and employs the depth-of-field feature.
The reason why you see any lag in scenes only lit by indirect lighting is because the denoiser is currently not adaptive as mentioend in the video. The amount of lag for the actual lighting update with an adaptive denoiser (which is what they are currently working on for the final, non-beta release) would have a max lag of lighting update equivalent to the maximum depth of the surface caching - so a max of 8 frames.
That's not a fair comparison, especially sing we have so little footage of the xbox version
I'm sure the first step is going to be hybrid raytracing and tricks to improve performance until hardware can handle path tracing in complex scenes. As with the state of Minecraft. There are still a lot of things that can be improved. Imagine the jump from Battlefield to Control and from Control to some late gen game by a AAA studio.
The correct term is camera obscura, but generally it just mean that you can project the light via small entry point from one room into another thats dark and display it.
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a GI solution is probably the one effect that will sway many people. it's the least subtle effect in Minecraft and Quake, so doing that at least would prevent most confusion
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Yes, you're getting at a concern I also share. It's hard to imagine graphically impressive games implementing these features in a really impressive way while also holding a solid frame rate.
Reminds me of the Arkham Knight Riddler reflection puzzle. It's a well done fake, like a lot of fake reflections or lighting (Uncharted 4's last epilogue house).
a lot of these effects can be replicated in a more cost effective as we seen with Control through hybrid ray tracing. games built around global illumination would look as good as this without the huge performance penalty
I guess that's one of those unknowns right now though. At what resolution and frame rate can the Series X run a game like Control with ray tracing? Hopefully we find out at launch with an update to the game.
we'll definitely find out before that, methinks. I can see MS using ray tracing extensively to better separate Xbox One versions and Series X version as an upgrade incentive. and of course, AMD will show off RDNA2 running DX12 games with RT (probably like control) so from that we can get a close guess as to Series X performance
