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[tired vapor]

this is without ray tracing enabled

fps ranges from about 28-35 on my laptop which is pretty outdated

[winter dirge]

sexy my friend

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[vast knoll]

roblox has shaders?

[tired vapor]

it does but that's not what this is

i think shaders have to be downloaded from another site or something like that

[tired vapor]

thank you my man

[tired vapor]

btw, this is on max graphics

[vast knoll]

Is this actually raytracing? How do you do it without shaders

[tired vapor]

do you know what raycasting is?

[vast knoll]

Yea

I’ve made a ray tracer before on shader toy

[tired vapor]

ok basically it's using attachments and a mix of pointlights and spotlights

one min

so what this is doing is using raycasting to detect the 3d position of a bunch of different positions on your screen, putting an attachment at that position, and inserting pointlights/spotlights inside of those attachments. Each of the lights are influenced by the other lights surrounding them, using a lerp function to combine the two, and also it can vary based on how far away the light is, the brightness of the light, and the range of the light

those green dots aren't gui btw, they're actual attachments in game

[vast knoll]

So it’s like an approximation

Cool idea

[tired vapor]

wdym

[vast knoll]

Technically it’s not ray tracing because you are using point lights

[tired vapor]

it's not guessing with the lights, it's using a lerp function to change the color combining the blue and red

[tired vapor]

well it's using rays

[vast knoll]

But it gives off the same effect

[tired vapor]

raycasting uses rays

[vast knoll]

Yea but it’s still an approximation

[tired vapor]

what is an approximation

[vast knoll]

The ray tracer

[tired vapor]

what is it approximating

[vast knoll]

Am actual raytracing shader

[tired vapor]

it is a raycast shader though

just not one you download from online

[vast knoll]

It’s not

It’s still being rendered with rasterizarion

You make point lights with ray casting to give off the effect of raytracing

Hence approximation

[tired vapor]

who said ray tracing has to use rasterizarion though

can it not calculate the position of lights and use that to reflect specific colors?

[vast knoll]

Do you mean can’t use?

[tired vapor]

no, im asking why ray tracing has to use rasterizarion, and why you believe it's not ray tracing because it uses lights instead

[vast knoll]

Raytracing doesn’t use rasterizarion

Rasterizarion is how Roblox renders stuff

Lights and meshes and stuff

[tired vapor]

ohh i thought that was like changing the pixels on the screen individually

so why can't ray tracing use lights? it's still using raycasts to figure out what the colors should be

[vast knoll]

Ray tracer should set pixels individually because that’s how you get the detail

Otherwise it’s just an approximation

Nothing wrong with that given the limitations of the platform

[tired vapor]

well every ray tracer is just an approximation, it's never going to be exactly like real life

just one method is more accurate than the other

[vast knoll]

No

When you calculate the value for each pixel it’s not an approximation it’s just a raytracwr

[tired vapor]

ok so you're saying when you don't calculate the value of each pixel, it's not a raytracer?

[vast knoll]

Pretty much

[tired vapor]

but says who

[vast knoll]

It’s an approximation

But not actually a ray tracer

[tired vapor]

yeah but who says it's not it's own ray tracer, just using a different method

the goal was not to change each individual pixel, it was to use my own concept for ray tracing

[vast knoll]

Idk but it’s still an approximation

[tired vapor]

fire point

[young wraith]

@tired vapor

[tired vapor]

yo

[young wraith]

how did you used to update the view model CFrame?

[tired vapor]

Model:PivotTo(cframe value here)

[young wraith]

im having problems with mine and id like to know how did you got it working

for looping

[tired vapor]

dude i had issues with this for like actually weeks. Do you want to hop in a call and I can help you out?

[young wraith]

my native language isnt english

[tired vapor]

ohh i get it

[young wraith]

ion acc speak it rlly well

the position

gets messed up

[tired vapor]

hmmm

[young wraith]

because of the loop yk?

[tired vapor]

what loop are you using

while loop?

[young wraith]

render stepped

[tired vapor]

can you send your code

actually can you just dm me

[tired vapor]

this is a little bit of an awkward place to help with that lol

[young wraith]

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    if Player.Character.Humanoid.Health <= 0 then
        ViewModel:Destroy()
    end
    if Camera:FindFirstChild("ViewModel") ~= nil then
        ViewModel:PivotTo(Camera.CFrame * CFrame.new(ViewModel:WaitForChild("XOffset").Value, -1, -1))
    end
end)

[young wraith]

yes

its gonna be 4 days tomorrow

that im trying to fix this

ive tried everything