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Absolutely ZERO raytracing was used in Terminator 2. The metal man was created (for his CGI versions) with basically the same technology as 3DSr2's cubic environment maps. There's an issue of Cinefex magazine that goes into excrutiating detail about how this was done. The secret to production animation is finding ways to get very accurate and aesthetic effects WITHOUT resorting to computationally-expensive techniques such as raytracing. This is what the core of 3DSr2 is all about. The new renderer. It makes the entire package click. – G