Does that even work conceptually? I'm far from a 3D rendering expert, but even with all the ray tracing bells and whistles turned on, the vast majority of what's on-screen is still going through the traditional raster pipeline.
You just said it.
Guess the jeetposting I talked about in the Doom thread got to them. We’re right and these poo-worshipping fucks know it.
Don't have to bake any lighting information if you go entirely RT for lighting, even in fully dynamic lighting you still need to bake indirect information somehow, thus cutting storage costs and baking times and increasing iteration times. RT is only being pushed so hard because it cuts costs rather than actually improves graphics. The only good part of RT is stuff that is physically impossible with raster tricks, like correct refraction, or proper reflections (that aren't planar), or raytraced transparency to not need a separate forward pass or to deal with sorting issues. With modern RT hardware we SHOULD have perfect reflections, mirror reflections only cost 1 sample per pixel, versus diffused reflections (this includes diffused lighting like light bounce) requires more samples per pixel = denoising required and high performance cost, but all the games with RT I've played the reflections are still terrible and have screen space fallback layered overtop and it just looks bad.
