January 24th, 2023 Livestream Q&A: Will there be ray-tracing at some point?

January 24th, 2023 Livestream

Q&A: Will there be ray-tracing at some point?

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will they be Ray tracing at some point I don't I don't think that there's a I don't think anyone's super, pumped about and they've been having honestly, don't worry but it's just like, yeah yeah I mean yeah you're right I mean pumped as in like but isn't something that he needs whether or not we can make it happen yeah that's that's what I meant obviously it would be kind of cool but it's it's only for very few people and it's not something that would necessarily change the game so much but who knows maybe it's like an additional option that we could just an experimental option that we could just introduce for some people who knows, but you know you know how I sort of see it coming about so sometimes we have things like creative time where, people in the company they take an entire day to just kind of do whatever they want then it can be for satisfactory it could be for their own development who knows, and you know this could end up maybe even being, who knows a creative time thing that's how I if it were to happen I see it happening like that for example if you think about the weather effects with rain that was a another one where it's like were we really ever gonna you know reschedule things so that we can get rain in the game not really but someone made it in, Ben made it in Creative time and so now it's just suddenly a thing and we get rain now and so I feel like if Ray tracing is going to be something like that it's going to happen in that kind of way on like unscheduled unprompted