Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

So I was thinking about something. Since it is possible to add celshade with the toon setting with the post processing effect, would ray tracing be possible to add aswell? Of course, in the future when computers are ten times more powerful. Or does it have to be something that the actual hardware had support for? Wich in this case, it didnt...

Dolphin can't do much beyond what the game its emulating tells it to, and no Wii or Gamecube game tells it to raytrace. Additionally, even if it were possible in Dolphin, real-time raytracing isn't going to look as good as more traditional rendering methods for a very long time, as it requires hundreds or even thousands of times more computation.