ready for the future pc bros?
DirectX 12 API to include ray tracing
Kayden Walker
Joshua Campbell
Why aim for photorealism when you can have just that by not playing games?
Jeremiah Ward
I might be mixing up things but couldn't devs do this before already without the API? What's the point?
Jayden Gutierrez
Not in real time. Also the difference here us that the whole image isn'r raytraced, only shadows and reflections making the calculations faster.
Chase Martinez
ray tracing was already a thing in quake wars, 11 years ago.
Hunter Reyes
Leo Martinez
Oh, that's cool. Thanks.
Ayden Flores
deep
Christopher Taylor
Who cares? Anyone with half a brain isn't using win10
Eli Powell
>not in real time
real time ray tracers were always a thing
youtube.com
Ian Murphy
meant for
Nathan Green
>he uses a OS that's almost 10 years old
pathetic
Nolan Foster
That's pretty cool, even if useless.
Juan White
Came here to post this. When will devs realise you can make do with so much less and be more recognisable in the process?
Michael Foster
>Similar to Plato's writings about mimesis, Aristotle also defined mimesis as the perfection, and imitation of nature
damn, ignoring classicism, are we?
Samuel Jackson
>im 14 and this is deep
back to /r/eddit
Hudson Turner
Angel Hill
so DX12 has a feature now?
congrats Microsoft
Joshua Thomas
Why use something newer when they don't fix anything and just add more problems?
Austin Wright
>people will remember raytracing as being a DX12 exclusive
Cameron Nguyen
Nintendo ALWAYS win.
Brody Price
This, It's pretty useless considering how slow it will be if used to any scale in an actual video game.
Josiah Parker
gay racing? what the fuck this is low even for microsoft
Isaac Davis
What is raytracing?
Aaron Brown
DX12 failed to get adopted by more than like 2 dev studios when it was new, somehow I doubt adding in a newfangled and most likely more hardware-intensive shadow shader will do anything.
Josiah Collins
You can do picture like OP in current Unity5, what's the deal?
Jack Gonzalez
Imagine simulating each photon that reaches your eyes
It's not really anything like that
Robert Flores
youtube.com
Ready for the future PC bros?
Tyler Mitchell
except have it backwards, so it's your eyes shooting light
Ryan Russell
>It's not really anything like that
Oliver Brown
I can't wait to get console ports of games with RayTracing(TM) that runs at 15fps and looks uglier than PC games from 2010.
Samuel Cooper
Who needs shading?
Ambient lighting is where it's at.
Noah Ross
instead of having some lights with pixelated shadows and dark corners to simulate the lack of light, it launches rays for every pixels of the screen.
Rays bounce on objects depending on algorithms simulating real photons, giving a near perfect lighting but at an extreme cost.
Adrian Morgan
well that's what Unity 5 does, while also using DX9
Justin Mitchell
>the same games with the same shitty gameplay with simplistic AI, and filled to the brim with liberal political agenda and gender ideology
>now with better graphics
>for only $1.999 thanks to the bitcoins
I surely can't wait for all these old school 8bit pixel survival crafting indie games, now with ray tracing in their 2d-3d environments...
It's quite pathetic how you kids will eat this shit up and upgrade your computer like good lapdogs.
Mason Barnes
>want to upgrade ye olde toaster
>see current GPU prices
>reconsider upgrading ye olde toaster
Joshua Watson
Vulkan/OpenGL already has this.
Oliver Cruz
post mems
Henry Powell
adding more realism to things that are inherently unrealistic will enhance the suspension of disbelief though
Jacob Morgan
with their progressive lightmapping you mean?
this time it will be realtime and win10 only it seems.
That's sad that we have to wait for Microsoft to push graphics when raytracing could have been used for years.
Hunter Roberts
like wolfenstein 3D?
Luis White
Someone post some examples of raytracing vs the way it's currently done
Jaxon Rivera
Photorealism is better than something attempting to do photorealism and failing.
Xavier Johnson
DirectX had VR rendering in 2009 already. being in the API!=popping up in every game overnight.
James Jenkins
Yes, this will totally make games more fun to, you know, play.
Not.
Michael Howard
just because it's in DOS doesn't mean it's running on a PC from 1980.
Also we can't even have multiple real time light source at the moment. That raytracer is gonna sleep in some "ultra high" 8000$ system for a while if devs even bother to use it. And certainly not in 4K nor 60 fps.
Jaxon Davis
>grrrr old people truth is FAKE! I AM YOUNG YOU LOSE
fuck off, underaged shit.
Hunter Morris
Greeks philosophers said basically everything and it's opposite. Nobody was "right", they are used today ebcause they all debated their point without as much meme and ad homs as intellectuals to today to excuse they electronic chinese toys purchase
Lucas Hughes
because they can't have the real thing you dumb cuck, whoever you are.
i don't wanna watch a movie about a suicidal depressed fat neckbeards masturbating all day long on 2d porn
Anthony Roberts
This made me giggle user.
Zachary Smith
>aesthetics don't matter!
Go play Pong and Tetris, mate.
David James
This is also true, however, one should find the fine line where they work well. Leaning too much towards realism makes it boring or not enjoyable. (Although this can be a + for some horror or survival games, it depends) Leaning too much towards absurdism just makes a game a series of wild connections with no clear direction. This, too, can be a good thing depending on the game. Nonetheless, finding a good middle is best.
Levi Nelson
>ngreedya
directX only, locked, proprietary
>glorious amd
directx and vulkan, open source, helping both M$ and Khronos develop new ray tracing techniques and deployment.
David Gonzalez
A technique that mimics real life can be used to make something that isn't realistic.
Matthew Bell
It means less work on making the lighting look good, which means more time spent elsewhere.
So maybe it makes level design faster because they don't fiddle with lighting so much and they make more levels.
Henry Jenkins
The thing is, we could already have graphics like this (mirror's edge, half life 2), but only precomputed.
Pic related is using voxels instead of rays.
With raytracing in real time we could have technically perfect and physically accurate lighting with moving objects.
Reflections and refractions:
youtu.be
Some game already have reflections this good, but not in real time.
global illumination, shadows, and reflections:
youtu.be
most games rely on screen-space occlusion to simulate the lack of light and precompute raytracing for global illumination.
Jacob Gray
Yeah but can raytracing beat Madara Uchiha
Justin Clark
blogs.unity3d.com
>thanks AMD for the help
Asher Rogers
If the only games to ever exist were Train Simulator and Fifa, this would be perfectly valid.
Isaac Garcia
Jose Lewis
Luckily video games aren't art so...
Gabriel Bailey
Anthony Morris
absolutely btfo
Alexander Hernandez
Yeah its been available in Open Standards for decades, but generally been too slow to use. Microsoft making a big deal of adding it to DirectX now, not long after Vulkan 1.1 brought with it a bunch of important new features to improve it for developers seems suspicious.
Hey developers, don't pay attention to this Cross Platform Standard that will work on virtually any Operating System on any hardware, or do you want to, look at what our closed API can do on this one OS on this one video card!
William King
this is the most retarded OP I've ever seen
Juan Price
Closed source always wins, baby.
Brody Martin
GPU ray tracing has been possible since forever... what the fuck is this shit?
Evan Perry
The Nintendo fusion
Xavier Diaz
>technical perfection can only recreate nature
The hell was this guy smoking?
Music by its nature doesn't perfectly recreate anything in nature, yet the most technically perfect music is still great to listen to.