TL: Minecraft RTX... It's GLORIOUS...

[RILEYISMYNAME]

Watch on the Floatplane alpha site: https://www.floatplane.com/cms/edit/video/69CeZnIkOe

 

 

NEWS SOURCES:

 

KEEP ON TRACIN’
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/minecraft-to-get-big-lighting-shadow-and-color-upgrades-through-nvidia-ray-tracing/
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/296855-minecraft-will-receive-nvidia-exclusive-rtx-update-for-raytracing-support
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3432549/real-time-ray-tracing-is-coming-to-minecraft-on-windows-10-and-it-looks-stunning.html

 

“WE’RE MAD AT YOU…SORT OF”
https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/19/huawei-90-day-temporary-license/
https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/trump-don-business-huawei-190819072349030.html
https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_to_receive_another_90day_extension_to_its_temporary_trade_license-news-38759.php

 

NO SWITCHING OUT THE SWITCH
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/17/20810332/nintendo-switch-upgrade-exchange-program-denial
https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-says-that-rumored-switch-exchange-deal-is-fake-1837354592
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/no-nintendo-switch-exchange-program-for-new-model/
Gamestop deal: https://www.imore.com/trade-your-nintendo-switch-225-gamestop

 

QUICK BITS

 

THREE 5G
https://www.techradar.com/news/three-5g-goes-live-in-the-uk-but-only-for-your-home

 

IT’S GOOD FOR YOU
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/17/20809976/ikea-home-smart-business-unit

 

LIKE THEY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH DATA ALREADY
https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/19/google-stops-sending-android-wireless-coverage-data/

 

PLAYERUNKNOWN’S CROSSPLAY
https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/19/20812227/pubg-cross-platform-play-xbox-one-ps4-gamescom

 

SUPREMELY POINTLESS
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Supreme-launches-a-phone-with-a-2.4-inch-screen-likely-to-fetch-flagship-price_id118314

[Princess Luna]

This is truly gorgeous, too bad they had to sacrifice so much to keep performance in check because nVidia aimed too low on the DXR capacity of a 2060 and likely console implementation going 2021 onwards.

[ArcticEngineer]

How does this compare to just using a shaders mod?

[Taf the Ghost]

Hi Riley. Glad to see you again.

[sazrocks]

2 hours ago, Princess Luna said:

This is truly gorgeous, too bad they had to sacrifice so much to keep performance in check because nVidia aimed too low on the DXR capacity of a 2060 and likely console implementation going 2021 onwards.

Uh, you do realize that that video has absolutely nothing to do with the RTX update that Mojang just announced for the Windows 10 version, right? The person who uploaded it was wrong to say that RTX is being used; its not. The shaders in that video are made by Sonic Ether for the Java edition of the game and can run on both Nvidia and AMD GPUs, regardless of whether they have DXR support.

[That Franc]

^ This
This existed for months, some people on youtube are already using it. The only caveat is that you can only have access to it if you pay the author 10 dollars monthly on Patreon, and it requires the likes of GTX 1080 to run smoothly in 1080p.

I'm also pretty sure that is looks better than the official RTX update.

Spoiler

Check out https://youtu.be/9d8RgNVKO5E?t=483 to see this in action.

 

 

[TheKDub]

4 hours ago, ArcticEngineer said:

How does this compare to just using a shaders mod?

The video quoted below is of the SEUS PTGI Shader Pack on Minecraft (Java edition, not the Windows 10 crap)

5 hours ago, Princess Luna said:

This is truly gorgeous, too bad they had to sacrifice so much to keep performance in check because nVidia aimed too low on the DXR capacity of a 2060 and likely console implementation going 2021 onwards.

That's not Nvidia's RTX stuff, it's the SEUS PTGI (Path Traced Global Illumination) Shader Pack.

[Flying Sausages]

Imagine Fortnite getting RTX graphics upgrade.....The company will be more hella rich.

[Bananasplit_00]

Rily, why. Why are you like this? Why can't you find the right place to post?

[jagdtigger]

So they abandoned a much needed project for this gimmick, gg mojang....

[Video Beagle]

7 hours ago, Schnoz said:

"Water now looks like water"

the snozzberries taste like snozzberries!

[Princess Luna]

7 hours ago, sazrocks said:

Uh, you do realize that that video has absolutely nothing to do with the RTX update that Mojang just announced for the Windows 10 version, right? The person who uploaded it was wrong to say that RTX is being used; its not. The shaders in that video are made by Sonic Ether for the Java edition of the game and can run on both Nvidia and AMD GPUs, regardless of whether they have DXR support.

Of course I am aware, that is why I said that looks good rather than the promotional stuff Nvidia shown.

 

And why it sucks Nvidia can't do as much of a good work because they have to spread out the game for every one and the RTX 2060 is underwhelming on the aspect.

 

DXR should have implemented to give a truly breath taking Minecraft experience and not more of the same.

[Princess Luna]

5 hours ago, TheKDub said:

The video quoted below is of the SEUS PTGI Shader Pack on Minecraft (Java edition, not the Windows 10 crap)

That's not Nvidia's RTX stuff, it's the SEUS PTGI (Path Traced Global Illumination) Shader Pack.

Yes I am aware and it is far better graphically than the announced Minecraft using DXR Nvidia is promoting, this my point it's hardly something to be hyped because how hard they had to downgrade it to make low end cards capable of running it.

 

If there's no significant I've graphical different like shown of the video why even bother with it? 

[RILEYISMYNAME]

15 hours ago, Taf the Ghost said:

Hi Riley. Glad to see you again.

 

9 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Rily, why. Why are you like this? Why can't you find the right place to post?

I was dropped as a child 

[sazrocks]

6 hours ago, Princess Luna said:

Of course I am aware, that is why I said that looks good rather than the promotional stuff Nvidia shown.

 

And why it sucks Nvidia can't do as much of a good work because they have to spread out the game for every one and the RTX 2060 is underwhelming on the aspect.

 

DXR should have implemented to give a truly breath taking Minecraft experience and not more of the same.

I disagree that it doesn't look as good. IMO they look about on par with each other (aside from artistic differences of course) when both are paired with a decent texturepack: 

Interestingly, a lot of the methods they mention for how they're doing things are exactly the same methods that Sonic Ether has been using.

 

Edit: Hi FP forum! (assuming this gets moved in 2 seconds)

[Fnige]

6 hours ago, RILEYISMYNAME said:

 

I was dropped as a child 

Was your father a more classical version of linus?

[MadAnt250]

@RILEYISMYNAME you should see how Minecraft looks on a CRT monitor at a resolution of 1600x1200 or higher, it is the only way I want to play Minecraft now.