the worlds first completly ray traced 3D Shooter

[hey69]

http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/~sidapohl/egoshooter/

"But it is sooooo slow?" you may ask...

The solution for fast raytracing is a real hardware capable of raytracing. Saarland University is working on a prototype. It is clocked with 90 MHz and has the raytrace power similiar to a virtual P4-12 GHz. The prototype uses only one pipeline, parallelization can be done. Also more GPUs can be used on one card.

 

[London Geezer]

Old and unusable. And can i say, mighty ugly too. It was posted in another thread on the 3d hardware forums

 

[hey69]

sorry master you can punish me now

 

[London Geezer]

You're excused. Just this time.

 

[Thowllly]

It's not the worlds first completly ray traced 3D Shooter. Here is an earlier one...

 

[randycat99]

It can't be all that bad for a single line, 90 MHz architecture, right? Imagine what would be possible if it were scaled up to a 16-line, 500+ MHz configuration or maybe a 2-line, 2 GHz device. That's a whole lot more computation capability, no?

 

[London Geezer]

*Cough*discussed in another thread*cough*

 

[pc999]

See this http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20031222075229.html

So, we have power to ray traced games in next gen

 

[London Geezer]

And as i said in this thread, raytracing on its own does not make thigns look pretty.

 

[Fox5]

Ah, what you can do with the quake 3 source code....

BTW, I remember once hearing that 3dfx was working on hardware capable of doing ray tracing sometime after the voodoo2, but dropped it before development ever finished. Am I just imagining things, or can someone confirm this?