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A comment on Cyberpunk 2077’s Path Tracing Update. Parent comment
Try to picture you flying a plane in a game. You're over a lake and your plane is occluding a mountain in the distance.
With SSR, those bits of the mountain your plane is blocking won't be rendered in the reflection.
Same with a fishing rod. They're tall and block a lot of things in the distance, thus breaking SSR.
Pay attention to the reflection in the water here when Sonic casts the rod (time-stamped): https://youtube.com/watch?v=IaPMkpDOFng&t=42s
Since it doesn't make sense to have a hole in a reflection when there's not actually a hole in the object, the reflection just stops when something occludes the object being reflected.
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Try to picture you flying a plane in a game. You're over a lake and your plane is occluding a mountain in the distance.
With SSR, those bits of the mountain your plane is blocking won't be rendered in the reflection.
Same with a fishing rod. They're tall and block a lot of things in the distance, thus breaking SSR.
Pay attention to the reflection in the water here when Sonic casts the rod (time-stamped): https://youtube.com/watch?v=IaPMkpDOFng&t=42s
Since it doesn't make sense to have a hole in a reflection when there's not actually a hole in the object, the reflection just stops when something occludes the object being reflected.