With the introduction of Nvidia Turing GPUs we got hardware accelerated ray tracing support allowing for some degree of ray tracing at the speeds required by video games. Ray tracing is much more complex computationally so it wasn't used in video games, but quite often for movies and still images. With ray tracing the developer has less work and the end result doesn't have the limitations of traditional methods (like for example reflections and indirect lighting effects). It's easy for GPU to render but requires a lot of developers work. The technique is capable of producing a high degree of visual realism, more so than typical rendering methods, but at a greater computational cost.Įxisting implementations pretty much fake lighting and shadows to a point that it looks kind of realistic (but with some limitations). What is ray tracing?Īs Wikipedia describes it - ray tracing is a rendering technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light as pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects. Let's take a look at ray tracing features and how WoW implements them. This also includes World of Warcraft Shadowlands. Ray tracing in video games is a relatively new feature that is picking up momentum as more and more games are starting to implement it.
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