@melviso There is an old-school plugin for Max called Flatiron. It hasn't really been updated in years but the devs still recompile and sell it. It's a complete ray-traced scene baking tool that is aimed at porting the baked lighting to real-time. Thought you might be interested. Edit: just found this vid from the devs…
If Otoy delivers on their promise, I think we could see ray tracing tech hitting PC this year. They promised to get their Brigade engine down from using 8 GPU's to just 2 (at perfect 30fps) by September of this year. That's a huge increase in efficiency while looking identical to their Octane software. It's also not just…