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Hopefully our GPU's have plenty of life in them now and less need to upgrade.
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Unreal Engine 4 - Photo realistic graphics ready now?
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Didn't Bethesda say they were going to be using photogrammetry for the next Elder Scrolls? Another step forward for visuals, while physics, audio and gameplay stagnate.
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Not all games take that length of time to put together, and a significant portion is dealing with building the game. If this makes that more simple then the time will go down.
I disagree. Most established game engines are efficient in what they do. AAA games are still taking 3+ years to push out the door, so the time is being spent elsewhere.
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Gibbo will be selling these saying: Only £9999!
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There are many parts to making a game, if they can make one easier and faster then the dev time will go down.
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“Rebirth”: Quixel creates a real-time photoreal 4K cinematic | Project Spotlight | Unreal Engine
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Just Cause 4 makes Crysis look like mush. And JC 4 has crappy graphics by AAA standards.
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I think its because gameplay requires a developer to code outside the parameters of the core game engine, what we see atm is a trend of utilising game engines but not expanding on them.
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You would be surprised at how much higher quality materials give to the overall IQ. Much more so than increasing geometry count or lighting improvements.
This is the project that me and a friend demonstrated at siggraph last year. It was running on a Vega FE at around 4k 30fps while using over 100GB of Vram at times. Some of the materials were 200MB for a single layer. There was also no ray tracing in this, it all pure and bog standard UE4. Some people who came to our booth believed we had ray traced and pre-rendered it in arnold, but this was all running in real time when recorded.
Many of the models on this scene were quite low quality compared to how things appear.
This is the project that me and a friend demonstrated at siggraph last year. It was running on a Vega FE at around 4k 30fps while using over 100GB of Vram at times. Some of the materials were 200MB for a single layer. There was also no ray tracing in this, it all pure and bog standard UE4. Some people who came to our booth believed we had ray traced and pre-rendered it in arnold, but this was all running in real time when recorded.
Many of the models on this scene were quite low quality compared to how things appear.
One reason I play games is to escape real life. While this looks stunning, I don't want to bring real life into games.
Spend the time developing all the little things like face expressions, eyes nose, teeth, hair etc fluid movements, outside scenery, touches like grass, dirt, weather effects etc. I know some of this is in games already but make this kind of thing much much better and games will take on a whole new life.
Spend the time developing all the little things like face expressions, eyes nose, teeth, hair etc fluid movements, outside scenery, touches like grass, dirt, weather effects etc. I know some of this is in games already but make this kind of thing much much better and games will take on a whole new life.