The search for precious ores in Minecraft can be tedious. As a result, many players have created texture packs that allow them to see through non-essential blocks. These are called X-ray texture packs ...

Ray tracing is one of the latest and most impressive graphical improvements video games have seen in the last few years. This system focuses on making light sources behave more realistically, which ...

If you’re interested in learning more about the Minecraft Stratum 2K Texture Pack & Ray Tracing Shaders, you will be pleased to know that YouTube’s member ‘hodilton’ has shared a video, showing off a ...

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When you think of Minecraft, you probably imagine blocky graphics and simplistic textures. But the recent beta launch of ray tracing support for NVIDIA's RTX graphics cards transforms it into an ...

If you missed the beta or other examples in 2020, ray tracing allows for realistic, physics-based lighting in games. Minecraft traditionally shirks realism in favor of a pixel art, sandbox fantasy ...