Archive notice: This article was originally published on August 23, 2019. Links and embedded videos are preserved as part of the historical record.
The community of the open-world sandbox game Minecraft has always experimented with mods and shader packs. During the current Gamescom 2019, Nvidia, together with Mojang, has now demonstrated real-time DXR ray tracing for the Windows 10 edition of Minecraft. The ray-tracing settings are intended to be available as a free update in the coming weeks.
Minecraft ray tracing and HD textures
To demonstrate the possibilities of the lighting model, the developers also created physically based materials with HD textures. In the following videos, you can see what the different surfaces look like with them. You can find more images in full resolution here.
Minecraft with RTX gameplay ON/OFF
Further information: To the Nvidia Minecraft RTX blog post