Ah this just makes me realise that someone needs to come up with a cheap-processing way of dynamically adding some displacement noise to the edge of polygons where there's a 90 degree angle or smaller - realtime Shading and Lighting in game engines is now downright incredible, but those perfectly straight edges along building edges becomes really noticable...
Ah this just makes me realise that someone needs to come up with a cheap-processing way of dynamically adding some displacement noise to the edge of polygons where there's a 90 degree angle or smaller - realtime Shading and Lighting in game engines is now downright incredible, but those perfectly straight edges along building edges becomes really noticable...
Not until we have real-time ray tracing - that's the biggest factor for realistic graphics in my opinion. Until then all these games will look just like that - games.
Not until we have real-time ray tracing - that's the biggest factor for realistic graphics in my opinion. Until then all these games will look just like that - games.
That's still a while off though, although some of the new path tracing engines are looking very promising.
In the meantime, stuff like UE4's pre-generated lightmaps get some very natural looking lighting without needing a rack of tesla cards.
Rockstar releases another batch of GTA V PC screens
30th March 2015, 3:30 pm
