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ELI5 What is Ray Tracing? And is it really that much of a game changer in video games? (lemmy.world)
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[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Your exactly right. If graphic quality stood still for a couple years, Ray tracing speed would catch up and be on parity. We keep pushing more polygons and other things that keep putting ray tracing behind a bit.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's kind of why it started to become feasible, right? Graphics quality has only incrementally improved over the last decade or so, vs geometrically improving in decades past

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I mean, that's been my opinion. You can only get so many polygons and bump mapping and texture resolution, etc, before you hit a plateau. The rest is 100% lighting.

I think as things like dlss and other frame generation tech gets better, Ray tracing will eventually become the norm.