My sources seem to differ from your point of view. But then, I may very well got something wrong. The whole subject is complicated enough and I surely do not plan to dig deep enough to write my own renderer.

I, for my part, need ray tracing for accurate shadows and translucency, reflections, refractions and ambient occlusion. If there is another way to archive that without ray tracing, then fine, use it. I can only use the tools that I have, and I still have no good solution for translucency available. I'm far from being professional in this business.

Greetings,
Uwe

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Sail out to sea and do new things.
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