I would imagine that they might be able to simplify a lot of the raytracing calculations as well, due to most of the environment being cubes arranged in a grid. Any big games with RTX have had to pick and choose between a subset of raytraced effects applied over raster graphics. I just kind of figure that a game that's well known for doing a low-res 'style' (rather than actually being low resolution) might not have as much of an appeal for ray tracing as say, a typical first person game.One advantage to doing this for a game with relatively simple graphics is that the current RTX hardware doesn't really offer enough performance to do full pathtracing particularly well in graphically demanding titles. We don’t have an official release date on when Minecraft with RTX will hit Windows 10, but Nvidia’s blog promises that it’s “coming soon.” However, Minecraft with RTX will require the Windows 10 Bedrock Edition of the game, so in the meantime, Nvidia has worked together with the Minecraft creators mentioned earlier to make an unofficial guide for porting Java Minecraft worlds to Bedrock (opens in new tab). None of these worlds are playable as of yet, although Nvidia has screenshots of each with and without ray tracing effects on, for comparison. Nvidia’s screenshot of this world show’s off the visitor center, which focuses on god rays shining down through windows.

Meanwhile, Imagination Island RTX by BlockWorks (opens in new tab) is a fully explorable theme park with four distinct lands, each dedicated to showing off a different aspect of ray tracing.

GeminiTay (opens in new tab)’s Crystal Palace RTX is a survival map with a “whimsical fantasy theme” that uses ray-traced shadows and atmospherics to focus on realism in a 1:1 scale castle. Of Temples and Totems by Razzleberries (opens in new tab) is an adventure world where players explore and complete challenges in mysterious temples, which focuses on showing off per-pixel emissivity (a PBR texture feature), real-time shadows, and global illumination.

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