A recent question about raytracing recieved a comment that it had nothing to do with game development. While that may be true, is there another place where the question would be more appropriate?
I feel that of all the disciplines covered by StackExchange, game development is the one most closely related to graphics programming, and that general graphics programming knowledge, whether real-time or not, is most useful to the game development community.
Stack Overflow. There's no reason they can't answer graphics questions. Indeed, their OpenGL tag gets much more volume than ours.
that general graphics programming knowledge, whether real-time or not, is most useful to the game development community.
If I want information about raytracing, I wouldn't go to a game developer. Yes, they might know, but there are a lot of graphics programmers who don't touch game development. And most game developers, even those who specialize in graphics, don't know much about raytracing beyond the basics.
