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  • PcChip 47 minutes

    what is it about raytraced animation that makes it more expensive to update the BVH mesh vertices every frame, compared to old-school bone animation where you send the info to the vertex shader every frame?

    juancn 25 minutes

    To make ray tracing practical, you need to update the ray-tracing accelerating structures when you animate.