When Mojang, the maker of the world’s best selling game, Minecraft, which has sold 176 million units globally, announced they were going to release the Super Duper Graphics Pack during E3 2017, fans were ecstatic and highly anticipated playing the popular game with enhanced visuals with a new look for the nearly ten year iconic game.
Originally planned for release in fall 2017 as an optional add-on, would have added “dynamic shadows, lighting that streams through fog, movement in leaves and grass, new textures for mobs and villagers, directional lighting, [and] edge highlighting.”
Unfortunately, the company had to cancel their project because the pack proved too technically demanding to implement as planned because it wasn’t performing well across different platforms.
“There was a lot of enthusiasm for Super Duper from inside and outside the studio – but unfortunately, we aren’t happy with how the pack performed across devices. For this reason, we’re stopping development on the pack, and looking into other ways for you to experience Minecraft with a new look.
Well, luckily for Minecraft fans, that time has come as their is another option to obtain their game with enhanced visuals that they were planning on. Even better visuals than they ever imagined, and Mojang has great imagination.
Here are two demonstration videos.
Through Windows 10 PC’s and laptops, using Nvidia GEForce RTX GPU’s, they can obtain a free update that will utilize real-time ray tracing from it’s graphics hardware.
Minecraft with RTX will refit the entire game with path tracing, a form of ray tracing featuring incredible levels of detail, affecting almost every pixel of every scene. You’ll see lifelike lighting, reflections and shadows, plus so much more, exemplifying the power of ray tracing and demonstrating why game developers like Mojang and Microsoft are working together with NVIDIA to enhance upcoming blockbusters with ray tracing.
This will dramatically change it into a new immersive experience rendering the realism of it’s environment for the viewer, even with it’s original Minecraft’s pixelated and blocky design that makes it so charming to everyone of all ages. Gamers of Minecraft will never want to go back once they have experienced live ray-tracing with Minecraft.
Below are a few examples in the Minecraft environment using an interactive RTX-off RTX-on demo.
What’s more exciting is that this is just the start of the RTX gaming revolution. This will be the new industry standard for new video games. Here is a video of 10 upcoming games with ray tracing:
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