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DF Direct Weekly #108: Unrecord's 'Realism' Explained, Horizon Burning Shores Hands-On

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The Shadow of Chernobyl Engine Leaks

A video has come out showing assets of the original Stalker game running in a renderer that is based upon reaster path tracing. It's going to make them basically, I think, look like a lot better than even the original Xbox One era launch era games as a result of stuff like that. Second part of this is it shows off that the Shadow of Chernobyl or the Stalker modding community is taking advantage of the engine leaks and modifying source code for X-ray engine. The people have been modifying it. There's only been some really cool non-ray trace modifications to the engine which add a lot of really cool things like screen space shadows,. volumetric rendering for

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