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Canada’s new law allows descendants of Canadians (including grandparents and earlier ancestors) to claim citizenship, potentially enabling millions of Americans to qualify; the new rule has led to a surge of applications and overwhelmed lawyers, with a 75 CAD certificate fee and additional costs for records and services, and processing times around 10 months.
Game design students from Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands have released a free mod that adds path tracing to the classic 1995 first-person shooter Descent. The mod, called DXX Raytracer, adds path-traced global illumination, updated textures, soft shadows, bloom, temporal anti-aliasing, motion blur, a 3D cockpit, and multiple post-processing features to the game. Adding ray tracing to retro games like Descent allows users to try path tracing while seeing older games in a new light, and Nvidia's upcoming RTX Remix suite will further modders' efforts to bring path tracing to even more classic titles.
The classic shooter game Descent has received an impressive Ray Tracing mod that enhances its lighting system. The DXX Raytracer mod features physically-based rendering, soft shadows, path-traced global illumination, bloom and motion blur effects, and support for TAA. While it doesn't support upscaling techniques like DLSS or FSR, players can download Descent RTX and enjoy the updated graphics.