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A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Shouldnt ray tracing fix that?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Yes, but it's exponentially expensive compared to cheating.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Well they built entire video cards series to address that, I hope they were worth it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

We haven't had decent GPU pricing since we started ramming that onto cards, although I will openly admit we've also had a lifetime of wacky fucking shit go on since then.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

and it’s still incredibly computationally expensive

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

yes and no, ray tracing still requires decisions about fidelity, the same poor decisions can be made in either rendering system

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