The Baking show

In Game graphics, everything that can be baked, should be baked.

~ Captain Honora

Have you first heard of raytracing 5 years ago, or 20 years ago? That would dictate your view of the technology, and what you imagine the point of it is.

When I first heard of raytracing, it was around 2004 with the first versions of blender. Before cycles was around, there was two choices of AO; approximate, or raytraced brute force. We’d spend hours , then later in the 2010’s minutes to calculate a single AO pass