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How about this function ?
I guy has done this for Minecraft. Look a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ocHnD_LsEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVmtZITs3Ss

This would belong into the Irrlicht engine. We don't care about the rendering techniques it uses.

Thank you for reply. Now I understand.

Those are beautiful, to be honest. Minecraft actually has something we can be envious of. :-)

Something like that should be doable with a shader as well, and indeed RealBadAngel is working on one that looks similar (using normalmapping).

PilzaAdam, we absolutely should care what rendering technique is used, whether it's part of Irrlicht or not, and whether it's raytracing or something else, as it can directly affect how the user perceives Minetest.

I think Ambient Occlusion ( ray traced 3d with Global Illumination) it will be a game changer for Minetest.

IMO SSAO would be a huge change, as would screen-space water reflections.

Neat, RealBadAngel is working on a similar implementation and when he asks to review it in IRC he will get a royal beatdown for "excluding old hardware" or "not aligning with the goals of Minetest".

I would be willing to test that and report bugs, even make a video as to my argument for the new implementation.

I found a topic about implementation for ambient occlusion into a game like this:
http://0fps.net/2013/07/03/ambient-occl ... ke-worlds/

I realy want to see minetest look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlUEafC24dg

AFAIK, that's how MT does ambient occlusion already...