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Comment by seemack

7 days ago

From what I've seen,the refractions happen in predictable contexts so I suspect that they'll be able to create shaders, etc that will limit the performance hit

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adastra22  7 days ago

Ray tracing is done in shaders these days. Doesn't make it cheap.

  • skhr0680  6 days ago

    The comment you’re replying to probably means “a shader that is a fine approximation of ray tracing (for cheap)”

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