Category: pathtracing

NVIDIA ray-tracing on ‘Minecraft’ looks surprisingly cool

Post author By Randall
Post date August 19, 2019
Categories In at&t, av, callofduty, dyinglight2, Gaming, minecraft, mojang, nvidia, pathtracing, ray-tracing, realism, Tech

[ad_1] Microsoft developer Mojang and NVIDIA added a type of ray tracing called “path tracing” to the Windows 10 version of the game. That realistically simulates a variety of lighting conditions, including direct light sources like the sun or glowing lava, hard and soft shadows, diffuse global illumination, reflections, refraction and atmospheric scattering. The final […]

The free ‘Quake II RTX’ demo is now available on Steam

Post author By Randall
Post date June 6, 2019
Categories In Art, av, Gaming, nvidia, path tracing, pathtracing, quake 2, quake ii, quake2, quakeii, ray tracing, raytracing, steam, Tech

[ad_1] NVIDIA says this is the first fully path-traced game. The ray-tracing technique pulls “all lighting effects such as shadows, reflections, refractions and more into a single ray-tracing algorithm.” You can snag the Quake II RTX demo from Steam and NVIDIA’s website, or pick up Quake II for just $5 if you don’t already have […]