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@Morningcoffee007

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If you don’t mind me asking, what can we expect to achieve with DXR/ realtime raytracing in UE4 for in particular?

Will we be able to say go from mid day to night time in real time without blueprints? Will we still need reflection captures?

Seeing that you’re working on this and you probably know so much more. Probably some things you can’t really share with us but I’d like to know what improvements we can expect.

From the demos I’ve seen I understand it is still a hybrid so the only benefit we’ll get is adjusting things while they bake, correct? And only shadows and reflections, right?

I heard some people say this is coming with 4.22 that but I’m not so sure, could you tell us anything about that?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

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Epic has said there will be DXR in UE4 starting in 4.22 by the end of the year. It’s been posted in the forums by staff, and I believe mentioned in the blogs

So far Epic has shown ray tracing for AO, reflections, and shadows. So don’t expect light bouncing anytime soon. The Star Wars demo used baked lighting for example.

@kenpimentel

I think we’ve stated you’ll see some commits in 2018 and the release of some DXR support in 4.22. I also thought we mentioned GPU support for next version of Lightmass.

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