Deus Ex: Human Revolution Looks Incredible With ReShade Ray Tracing

Despite having been released a long time agone, Deus Ex: Human Revolution still looks great. Only the game can be fabricated to look even better with the help of Pascal Gilcher'southward ray tracing global illumination shader.

A new video shared by Levan on YouTube highlights how much the game would benefit from ray tracing. While features like screen-space reflections are non perfect, the improvements to indirect lighting are clearly noticeable, looking more realistic than before.

This game looks lovely with RTGI shader and without it, the Screen space reflection actually work but information technology assigns it's cocky with non every cloth and so information technology's difficult to come across but information technology is there.

Pascal Gilcher'due south ray tracing global illumination shader doesn't introduce proper ray tracing, but it comes with some advantages, like being able to run in any game and on any GPU. More information on information technology can be found on the developer's Patreon.

What I'm doing is ray tracing in screen space, tracing rays confronting the depth buffer (a data buffer that contains the information how far an object is away, as opposed to the color buffer which tells you what color the object has and what yous usually see in any game). When compared to DXR, it has several limitations: anything behind another object does not contribute, anything outside the screen does not contribute, backfaces practice non contribute. The benefits of this shader is that information technology can run on every game and GPU and it's a step up from regular SSAO. I hope this serves as a sneak peek at what DXR ray tracing tin do and why everyone in VFX can't expect to get existent ray tracing for their games.