{"id":314770,"date":"2025-10-16T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2162448"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:04:47","slug":"this-breath-of-the-wild-mod-adds-ray-tracing-and-looks-glorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/this-breath-of-the-wild-mod-adds-ray-tracing-and-looks-glorious\/","title":{"rendered":"This Breath of the Wild mod adds ray-tracing and looks glorious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/this-breath-of-the-wild-mod-adds-ray-tracing-and-looks-glorious.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ever since Nintendo Switch emulation became viable on PC a few years ago, modders have been tinkering away, improving many visual aspects of Switch games.<\/p>\n<p>Now, German modder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/DigitalDreams\">Digital Dreams<\/a> (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/you-ve-never-seen-breath-of-the-wild-look-this-good-bef-1847449056\">Kotaku<\/a>) has released a showcase of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild running at 8K resolution with ray-tracing, and it looks absolutely stunning.<\/p>\n<p>Using post-processing injector Reshade, Digital Dreams was able to create a ray-tracing preset for the game and manipulate the colour hue to give it an added sparkle. Depth of field has also been retouched and greater draw distances have been added. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-10-this-breath-of-the-wild-mod-adds-ray-tracing-and-looks-glorious\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-10-this-breath-of-the-wild-mod-adds-ray-tracing-and-looks-glorious\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Nintendo Switch emulation became viable on PC a few years ago, modders have been tinkering away, improving many visual aspects of Switch games. Now, German modder Digital Dreams (thanks, Kotaku) has released a showcase of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild running at 8K resolution with ray-tracing, and it looks absolutely stunning. Using post-processing injector Reshade, Digital Dreams was able to create a ray-tracing preset for the game and manipulate the colour hue to give it an added sparkle. Depth of field has also been retouched and greater draw distances have been added. 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