An nameless reader writes "Intel released the article 'Quake Wars Gets Ray Traced' (PDF) which details the growth efforts of the anatomy team that applied a real-time ray tracer to Enemy Territory: Quake Wars . It describes the requital package and challenges of transparency textures with this ancestor technology. Further insight is given into what special effects are most costly. Examples of glass and a 3D water use




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