Some want to simply play along the adventure of rags to riches, ending with a fight against the Ender dragon. Players young and old have ventured into the randomly generated lands for one reason or another. Or as one joker put it in the YouTube comments: “2007: But can it run Crysis? 2019: But can it run Minecraft? Oh how the times have changed.”Įditor’s Note: For accuracy’s sake, but without getting too technical, here’s how Sonic Ether describes his mod : “ It is more descriptive to call the tech in ‘path tracing,’ but it is not incorrect to call it “ray tracing”, since path tracing is a rendering technique which utilizes ray tracing.The Minecraft experience has been around for over a decade now, so now's as good a time as any to dive into the best Minecraft mods in 2022. “Many games have a way of faking this effect, but this is generated in real time.”īattaglia’s hardware for this technical demonstration is more powerful than an Xbox One X, and yet with this path-tracing* mod installed, it’s running at 720p locked to 30 frames per second - if that gives you a sense of how much this kind of rendering asks. “This is how light functions in the real world,” Linneman says simply. “It honestly just looks like an architectural rendering,” Battaglia says at one point. It is a highly technical discussion, of course, but the visuals are always there to fall back on, to illustrate what kind of a load the hardware has to carry to pull it off. The rooms they’ve built show off not just those highly coveted godrays of sunshine, and indirect lighting, but also how a room can be indirectly lit off multiple reflections of a light source, and how colored surfaces’ reflections, will also mix and change when they bounce onto another colored surface. Sony’s PlayStation 5 is the most exciting yet boring next-gen console so far
“Because these objects are non-moving and in a binary, present-or-deleted situation, that makes the calculations easier,” Linneman adds. “To have the entire world always be known as being made of blocks is what mes this so performant,” Battaglia explains. It’s not just because Digital Foundry’s Alex Battaglia and John Linneman can build rooms that call attention to concepts like “specularity,” and “bounce lighting” and “differentiated reflective surfaces.” Its because the voxelized world is optimal for the real-time demands of ray tracing. Minecraft, using the mod Sonic Ether’s Unbelievable Shadows, makes for a surprisingly good test space. Here is a surprisingly watchable technical demonstration from Digital Foundry - using Minecraft of all things - to point out its applications - like your username casting a shadow. This week, after hearing Sony confirm, and then describe, the next PlayStation under development, you may be wondering what exactly “ray tracing” is and why it’s such a differentiator when it comes to high performance video game hardware.
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