One of the major announcements to come from the Gamescom conference in Germany is that Microsoft and Nvidia have partnered to add a new layer of realism to the popular block-based world-building title Minecraft. The game was revealed to be getting a major visual overhaul, thanks to the addition of ray tracing support into the mix.
As you can see in the video attached above, ray tracing places focus on many different lighting sources including the sun, glowing lava, and the different shadows they create. While it’s not particularly necessary, users appear to have been craving for much better graphics as the mod market for the same was heating up. There’s a shaders pack out on the Internet that brings almost all the official features, that too using path tracing, to the game right away.
