Recent content by VFX_Veteran

I think a more interesting question is what will the hardware be like for PS6, etc.. In the past, I've found a lot of console zealots making outright silly claims of 4090 level GPUs for $500. The evolution of GPUs coming from Nvidia are on another level compared to the same evolution on AMD...

This has been my major complaint in games for years. Path-tracing will obviously solve this but I don't think it's the game engines not supporting it but the GPUs not having enough bandwidth. Even if you do a single cast for a shadow ray, you'd only be making sharp shadows. Blurred shadows...

I don't disagree with that but you'd need a lot of samples in order to get a good approximation. Also don't know what the scene looks like geometrically when rays are fired to see what surrounding color contribution is computed for the pixel.

Hmm.. Yea, having only single-cast RT GI isn't enough for good contrast varying quality illumination. That can only be achieved with importance sampling the environment. Importance sampling would bring out the brighter higher contrast sources into the indirect lighting part of the equation...

This is the result of having to only sample a sphere of possibly low detailed environment sky (possibly spherical harmonics?). Since the objects are in shadow, you can't possibly shade them anything else other than environment sky. With no other bounced light being importance sampling the...

Can you show the screenshots of this inconsistency? The game looks damn near perfect in the jungle.

I don't think it's because they sold enough PRO consoles as to why they will automatically repeat their previous upgrade. Remember that the PRO console last-gen was the first ever in the history of consoles. It came about because of an explosion of the 4k TV and massive complaints from...

PC space isn't the same as the console markets. PC upgrades are continuous and refresh GPUs are every 2yrs. The consoles are fixed hardware and don't need to change that frequently as the consumer won't buy them.

I always thought that the scene data was too light to be bandwidth limited such that you require an SSD w/DS in order to move data from the drive into usable VRAM. It all just doesn't make sense to me tbh.

Very interesting especially since you can't tell the difference in these image comparisons.

Now. I was wrong. The PS5 IO system is superior to any PC subsystem at the moment from the looks of things running R&C. Even if having much more RAM for caching. However, this lack of 1:1 performance does not in any way make it the preferred way to play. Faster FPS, higher resolution and...

I'm sure he saw this thread. So it can be closed. Just won't worry about it anymore. If he dislikes me for whatever reason, I will never know.

I'm confused how many people are impressed with this trailer when 99% of it is in-game cinematics and won't look nearly as good. Just go back to the initial reveal and compare those gameplay footage over this footage. They aren't even close to the same.

I would normally agree with you here.. but Alex and I were pretty casual for many years. We've talked together at length on Discord and when his career started, he took a lot of my advice. It's really strange that he hasn't replied to me in either Discord or PMs here (which we all see he...

I don't think anyone was ever putting the onus on the developer about dimension hopping in the presentation they gave. It's the fact that they went too far into noman's land by specifying 'not possible without the PS5 SSD pipeline' that got people on the defensive when they found out the game...