Ray tracing in beamng

will beamng benefit from ray tracing? and also will beamng support ray tracing?

 

Nvidia's implementation of real-time ray-tracing isn't even available on DX11, so don't even bother thinking about that until they announce DX12 and/or Vulkan support.

Would it benefit? As much as any game benefits by looking slightly more realistic. Personally, I'm not buying a thousand dollar card just so I can play a game that looks slightly better at 1080p60 or 2160p30.

 

Agreed... a very small percentage of people would be able to think about affording the hardware necessary to run such a thing. So unless someone finds a way to massively reduce the power required for ray tracing and can then run it on much more normal hardware, I don't even see this being considered.

 

Ray tracing requires Dx12 or Vulkan, which this game doesn't have, (although it may be getting one soon). I can't imagine it would make much of a difference anyway. And I believe the devs have mentioned that RTX development kits and licenses are quite expensive, and they don't really have the budget for one.

 

Just ask yourselves: how hard can it be? For a developer? For a team of developers? Well, the devs haven't talked about ray tracing that much, but I'm willing to bet we can get pbr in beamng. In 2019 even.

Side note, I think we should make a gambling site for beamng updates. Like what comes next, new rendering stuff or a new map editor theme?

 

It's closer proprietary stuff, where as BeamNG attempts to be as open as possible, does not mix that well.