a game engine using real-time raytracing technology, but the aesthetic is all 90s POVRay renders
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in reply to @jckarter's post:
i really don't know why this doesn't already exist, with all of the reflective checkerboard floors and chrome balls and everything that would go right in with the so-called "vaporwave" aesthetic
I think this is a bit SuperRT (by necessity) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFF344NbZ4
But also an aesthetic thing I want is a real time raytraced game in the style of the Myst pre-rendered backgrounds, and also it’s just adventure game style fixed perspective so it also feels pre-rendered like that.
makes me think of Grim Fandango, where the backgrounds were prerendered with Z buffer info, so that the polygonal characters and objects could be rendered into the scene in real-time. if you raytrace the whole scene in realtime though, i could see that enabling some cool environment lighting effects that could be used for puzzles, even if the perspective is still fixed
Now I'm just imagining a room basking in the indirect lighting from a Lights Out puzzle on the wall