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Sorry, but what a silly argument, why don't you ask b3d members to invent a solution for shader stuttering if it irks them that much...

They did it because it was the simplest way to accomplish the task, given the tools they already had at their disposal. The voxel...

What is exactly magic about it? This is how it's done in multiple engines I know, there is no separate BHV for SW triangles RT in the...

Yes, SDF is a poor high poly mesh approximation. My point is that geometry merged into HLOD is even more limited than runtime merged SDFs.

They obviously link triangles to the voxel octree for the triangle RT reflections that are used in the Crysis Remastered on consoles and...

These ears are absolutely necessary for shadows, self-occlusion (specular, AO), mirror reflections, and so on. However, the ears are not...

Triangles do just fine for the cost in Crysis, WoT and the Neon city demo even with SW RT. The problem is that SW triangle RT is very...

Gosh, have you tried UE at all? Are you sure there is nothing missing in the Lumen scene with SDFs - https://imgsli.com/MTc0ODM2 ? And...

There's some simplification that can be done without changing the result in terms of eliminating stuff that is not ever going to be...

I would not consider these to be significant advantages (if at all - they are all solved for triangles at this point), given the task...

Honestly, I don't think that even with all these conversions, it would be worse than a low-res merged distance field. I mean, even with...

It can be automated, but all existing robust solutions involve converting geometry to a volumetric format for merging, and then back to...

Epic did just that. They’re merging SDFs to accelerate software tracing and they’re also merging triangle geometry as a sort of coarse...

Thanks. Good to know. Maybe the far-field merging can be reused for the near-field objects as well, this would have eliminated the...

The funny part is that there are tools in the UE5 editor that allow to merge geometry instances, though, I wasn't able to utilize them...