Severi Salminen wrote:

> I agree: the result doesn't look one single bit different than normal
> FPS games which are rendered with conventional (scanline) methods.
> (Well, Crysis looks better than this...)

Quite. And Crysis and others already have realtime shadows now, so...

> But of course, ray tracing would make things simpler: no need to use
> fancy tricks to achieve a certain effect.

Once it becomes possible to do this kind of thing "efficiently enough", 
I would think the simplicity argument will become quite compelling. 
Currently computer games have all kinds of graphical effects that look 
great *except* when you do XYZ, and then the illusion breaks horribly. 
Ray-tracing could end this.

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