{"id":224296,"date":"2021-03-25T20:04:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/world-of-warcraft-ray-tracing-unreal-engine-fan-remakes\/"},"modified":"2021-03-25T20:04:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:04:55","slug":"world-of-warcraft-fan-remakes-areas-with-ray-tracing-in-unreal-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/25\/world-of-warcraft-fan-remakes-areas-with-ray-tracing-in-unreal-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft Fan Remakes Areas with Ray-Tracing in Unreal Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While modding websites remain popular ways for gamers to make changes to their favorite games, some fans decide to take their creativity to the next level. Talented players can recreate game assets in advanced game engines such as Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Unreal Engine will be recognized at the Annie Awards<\/a> in April for the advancements in computer animation it has made possible, and game development teams aren’t the only people to put that to good use. One\u00a0World of Warcraft<\/em><\/strong> fan has used Unreal Engine 4 to recreate in-game areas and show off one of the most talked about graphics rendering techniques: ray-tracing.<\/p>\n

Ray-tracing receives a lot of hype for what it brings to games, and not all of this hype is unfounded. Ray-tracing allows for more realistic game environments because it essentially renders images by tracing paths of light to simulate how that pixelated path might interact with other game assets. Horror games can benefit from ray-tracing<\/a> quite a lot, as they often rely on a complex relationship between light and shadow to scare viewers with the seen and unseen. However other games can reap benefits as well, including the long-standing MMORPG,\u00a0World of Warcraft<\/em>.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Resident Evil Village Supports AMD Ray-Tracing on PC<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

One World of Warcraft<\/em><\/a> fan has a YouTube channel called Daniel L that lets gamers see what iconic\u00a0World of Warcraft<\/em> locations look like in Unreal Engine 4. The channel is five years old, and features several different locations from the game, including Westfall, the Elwynn Forest, and the Grizzly Hills. The latest video uploaded to the channel is the first to show off a few of these locations with Nvidia RTX ray-tracing.<\/p>\n