GoKawiilAround The World developer builds custom ray tracer to fix cloud lighting
Thomas ten Cate, developer of the sailing exploration game Around The World, found that POV-Ray was not simulating multiple light scattering inside clouds, leaving a lookup table that made cloud undersides too dark. He wrote his own multithreaded Monte Carlo ray tracer in Rust to generate a more accurate scattering table, producing a lighter, more realistic cloud appearance.