While raytracing/preview are helpful not everyone has the hardware for it, and to your point indeed, I also care much more about being able to bake in a timeframe that doesn’t tie up computer for hours, i’ve seen it myself,tho I do have complex terrain 2x2 5101 world comp. Not HUGE compared to what others are doing, but has a major affect on dev involvement.
Are you i7s fast,middle or…Scary times can you elaborate on your setup . As noted elsewhere, the way things are going a highend RTX will be needed going fwd, which hurts those without adequate funding . No one would deny we knew what we were getting into here . I wonder how much 4.24 will change that landscape and what the requirements will be.