When Gandalf rides Shadowblind all the way to "White City", he is in the middle of Mindoroan Mountain.

The fact that the king of the city guarding Gondor taught only a sign of the last days of darkness. a

We can't enter the Middle-earth world of "Lord of the Rings", but we can create it in the meta-world!

After all, in this era of ubiquitous "meta" in terms of freedom, "Minecraft" really had its place.

You can walk along the winding path as the majestic Minas Tirith climbs to the ground, relaxing in magnificent mansions and marveling at the magnificent gardens that helped Gandalf escape Sauron. The Baicheng also has a complex drainage system.

Of course, the style of art is not always stressful.

No, to celebrate Christmas, Nvidia has created a surprise for Minecraft.

This new world has three great Christmas snowballs: Winter Wonderland, Santa Village, and Winter Surround.

In addition to the roller coasters, a Christmas town, an ice rink, a penguin postal service and a good tent, there are storytelling games and Santa announcements.

If you add the area of ​​our “snowballs”, it can reach almost 160,000 square meters (38 acres).

It's wide enough to cross a bridge, right?

Fortunately, the area is served by the railway and can be reached by small trains (mining cart).

Plus, "Snowball" is full of Easter eggs reminiscent of popular movies such as "Christmas Elf", "What Life Is Like" and "Pola Express".

During the operation, he will pass a St. Nick place full of Christmas dinner.

If you don't like to work, you can explore the hedge maze, ride a roller coaster, or just relax with penguin friends.

After inspecting the mail and button bags of Santa Claus in the dark trees, you will be taken to the beautiful Christmas Shop.

Of course, unlike London, where a hot dog costs £ 14, the market here is still very cheap (free).

As you wander through the market, cobblestone walkways set up causing distraction.

The palace behind him watched it all, and the dark windows reflected the glare behind him almost perfectly.

Because the exterior of this stone is made up of thousands of glass blocks, the reflections of the light and the surface blend together, making every event almost a dream come true.

Probably the best practice of chasing the light out of the sky itself, and he didn't think it would take more than 300 hours to create.

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Follow reality in virtual reality

In terms of gameplay, 10 years have passed since the first official version of Minecraft was released in 2011. Minecraft has sold over 238 million copies, making it the best-selling game in the world. “There is more than 'PUBG Mobile'.

The gameplay of Minecraft is also very simple and above all independent.

The player can interact with various blocks in the 3D world, the blocks can contain lava, water, clouds, etc. The player can become the creator and create their own inner world of willpower.

And graphics technology has also changed rapidly over the past 10 years, so to support RTX, NVIDIA will not forget to upgrade to Minecraft.

While the main theme of RTX is actually the pixel wind of the Minecraft theme is definitely not true, but I don't want the two to work very well together!

In early 2020, Nvidia released the beta version of Minecraft with RTX, and the developer world is finally here!

In the RTX version of Minecraft, ray tracing and physics-based rendering strategies allow players to create stunning and breathtaking worlds using light, shadows, and special effects, even anywhere in the world.

Did I mention that the Earth Cube has no points? The colorful reflections of the light give you clarity.

One of the most significant changes after activating RTX is the movement of the sun, and during the game change the sun comes on slowly and the lighting through the window also moves slowly.

Diffuse reflection of light is not a problem, there isn't much of a feeling of incongruity to the OL ground, and you can finally turn off the light of Jesus in Minecraft!

The Tyndall effect can improve the accuracy of the image, and looking at the path of the light, you can feel the weather and the feel of the game world.

Left: My World, Right: OL World

Another type of strong light ability is the water effect, which without RTX is no different than blue light conditions.

When you turn on RTX, you get water reflection, the sparkle of reality and detail, and bright light all over the picture and give you the perfect frame.

For multiple lighting locations, if you mix multiple lighting sources, the image effect is also excellent, and the counting speed is very fast!

Not only foreigners can spend Christmas in Minecraft, Chinese people can spend New Year in Minecraft!

In July of this year, the Chinese version of Minecraft also started working with Nvidia RTX, releasing the first beta test version.

On November 13, at the Minecraft 2021 developer conference, three more maps were announced, including two Chinese cities "Chongqing RTX", "Chaozhou RTX" and a Chinese-style map "Longgong RTX".

세계명 : Chongqing RTX Créateur : National Architect Cthuwork

: Dragon Palace RTX Creator: Ancient Stone

Of course, not only by enjoying the achievements of other players, you said that it is relatively easy to create lights to become a real god.

Nvidia has also released step-by-step instructions that show you how to create your own PBR textures, which works by setting each side of the block to its own light, roughness, color, and other texture.

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The hunt for light is awesome! But when selling original value graphics cards

The hunt for light is awesome! But when will the original card be sold?

So if the tracking light is very good, you might be wondering why there is no tracking light in the previous game.

In fact, Microsoft has already added many complex and realistic 3D effects to their interactive games in the Windows Vista era, and ray tracing technology is one of them.

In principle, the light source acts to follow the direction of the presentation of the light. This allows the visual rendering to extend the three-dimensional effect of the two-dimensional surface.

The experience we got from high school is that we can see things because light enters our eyes, not because our eyes shine. This is because the sun's rays continue to reflect the material, allowing more light to enter the eye, allowing you to see more clearly during the day than at night.

Once light has entered the human eye, the brain puts the light into the image. And the difference of an object affects the difference in light due to the angle, color, distance, etc., creating such phenomena as contrast, shadows and color depth, make the image multi-layered and three-dimensional .

However, the light method is not easy to calculate and requires a lot of energy metering. Therefore, in a time when hardware technology was underdeveloped, most games use rasterization technology to simulate game screen shadows and reflections, the accuracy is very low. .

Due to these limitations, light tracking techniques are only used for operations that are not in real time, such as special effects in movies or television.

Real-time ray tracing technology was introduced to the game in August 2018 when Huang released its RTX 20 series graphics cards.

The cost of light tracing counting time being very high, NVIDIA's solution is to develop light tracing counters with RT Core and Deep Class Tensor Core, which recently enabled the cards, but to reduce noise in RTX. You can get the effects in real time, but the effect is far from ideal.

The first is that the performance of the existing game is not as expected, and the second is that the game loses too much after turning on the chase light. You will also need the support of the toy makers to play Light Chase.

You have to eat one at a time and do everything at the same time.

To support the advancement of RTX, Huang once again praised its outstanding performance and released the GTX 16 and RTX Super series, based on DLSS 2.0, improving frame rate and image quality. All major manufacturers integrate lightweight builders like Minecraft, Battlefield 5, Cyberpunk 2077, etc.

AMD later announced that its graphics card had started to support light-tracing technology.

Today more and more games are promoting the track, and the gaming world has become a reality.

However, there is an issue that Lao Huang has yet to resolve.

That said, the whole recommendation for taking advantage of RTX is that you need a graphics card that supports fast light. Lao Huang, when are you going to sell my old card!