Ray-trace rendering

Raytracing lets you include reflections, refractions, and ray-trace shadows into your scenes. Only objects that have their ray-trace options turned on will use this renderer. Raytracing is slower than the A-buffer algorithm and should only be used when necessary.

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Ray-trace rendering

Note: Objects have raytracing turned On by default, but the renderer's raytracing is turned Off by default.

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