A new cinema trailer for Fortnite has been published by NVIDIA GeForce to shows off the power of ray tracing in the game. There’s lots of scenery and architecture on show. and players are promised beautifully rendered foliage, buildings, character models, and textures, together with global illumination, ray-traced shadows and ambient occlusion. Players are reminded that they will need to have invested in a powerful GPU to take advantage of all this gorgeousness.
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