GTA:VC w/ray tracing

[operative x]

a cool little experiment by some professors.
http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/~siraplet/
make sure you check out the movies, they're pretty neat.

 

[Naudian]

Puuurty...

Sooo whats the deal with "ray tracing"?
Is it a technology like HDR or a whole graphics engine itself??
And when can I play a game with it!?

 

[Icarusintel]

games with true ray tracing won;t be out for a while, they're very system intensive and certainly wouldn;t run well on current high-end machines

 

[FictiousWill]

Raytracing literally traces a line from a pixel on your screen and colors it based on the place in the virtual world that it hits. The downside is that it takes a long time. The upside is once you get it going fast enough to draw at a reasonable framerate, polygons, perfect shadows, draw distances, true reflections, everything that would cut a current gfx card off at the knees - can be done with no slowdown at all. AT ALL.

 

[Moto]

That's pretty amazing.

 

[Gargantou]

That's pretty amazing.

Quoted For Truth.

 

[Dekstar]

Looks pretty intense.

 

[FictiousWill]

http://www.realstorm.de/
http://www.realstorm.de/realstorm/data/RealStorm_Bench2004.exe

 

[jondy]

Raytracing is a waste of resources at this juncture; faking softshadowing, refractions and reflections gives faster, prettier results. Check out the screenshots; the city looks like ****

 

[MiccyNarc]

The objects are low-poly/low-res but the shadows are perfect.