Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Will Always Run with Ray Tracing, Even on Older GPUs

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As indicated by an engine showcase shared today, Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment are hard at work on a new Avatar game called Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora that will capitalize on modern graphics technologies such as ray tracing. According to a new interview with the game’s technical director, Nikolay Stefanov, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora’s ray tracing effects cannot be turned off at all because the title was designed from the ground up to be a true next-gen title and doesn’t offer any other rendering method for the lighting. Luckily, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora features some level of support for software-based ray tracing, which means that users stuck with older GPUs can still enjoy the...

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[Brent_Justice]

This is really interesting to me, is this the first game to be built from the "ground up" with Ray Tracing?