Horizon: Zero Dawn - Graphics de-Gushing

[London Geezer]

I know most of you will cringe at the thought, but my partner has been playing this via remote play on my MacBook (while I work my way through Nioh on the big TV). And even then, at half res and super compressed, or whatever remote play does, it looks brilliant. Who says we need 4K!!!

 

[Deleted member 11852]

The game is really getting Jurassic Park like, had some intense battle with a trio of Belloback which reminded me of the Suchomimus. It showed me what it feels like to be hunted by those giant theropod dinosaurs for the first time and boy I haven't even met Thunderjaw yet. Really love the design of those machines it's right up in my ally.

Snapmaws are also mean bastards. You'll see those and Thunderjaw's before you leave the sacred lands - well you will if you explore. I've just got to Meridian and this game is insanely, insanely big. And they keep cranking the visuals up!

 

[ultragpu]

Snapmaws are also mean bastards. You'll see those and Thunderjaw's before you leave the sacred lands - well you will if you explore. I've just got to Meridian and this game is insanely, insanely big. And they keep cranking the visuals up!

Oh hell yeah I'm a explorer junky, literally taking my sweet time checking out every corner no expenses spared. Can't believe the visuals would keep ramping up, oh my poor share button.

 

[Clukos]

Some 4k shots

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/664/32424126074_767304982f_o.png
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3727/33225844356_5a6527e634_o.png
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2815/33267228605_ba8109216d_o.png

 

[Karamazov]

http://i.imgur.com/5lbaGMd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/usy7fkd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/v2uAlOU.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/sc4lSG9.jpg

 

[Clukos]

Self-quote from the accurate human rendering thread

Alright, this is probably post worthy. The iris of the eyes appears to have translucent properties (like it should), the skin also has some nice specular highlights to it, cubemap reflection of the surrounding environment as well

the full 4k .png files in links
https://abload.de/img/1g6kmd.png
https://abload.de/img/29fk91.png
https://abload.de/img/3yrjmr.png
https://abload.de/img/4pqkaf.png

 

[Kyyla]

I think what you mean is that her eyes have an actual cornea with some nice specular reflections, and an anterior chamber with some depth. The pupils don't seem to react to light though and the iris plane seems a bit concave which is weird.

 

[Arwin]

Indeed, the pupils don't seem to dilate unfortunately, which is just adding to giving the characters a very plastic look still.

 

[ultragpu]

Unforgivably realistic lighting and everything
You know it strikes me as if someone was doing a cosplay in the real world.
http://i.imgur.com/IP28y6R.gif
http://i.imgur.com/jfrBjlw.gif

 

[Clukos]

I think what you mean is that her eyes have an actual cornea with some nice specular reflections, and an anterior chamber with some depth. The pupils don't seem to react to light though and the iris plane seems a bit concave which is weird.

Got these at a weird angle, this is how it looks from the front:

And I think you are correct about the pupils, def one aspect they can improve upon.

Edit: Two more

 

[chris1515]

http://i.imgur.com/ru4EzJg.gif

Great gif

 

[Silencerx98]

So, I've been lurking Beyond3D for a while and just made an account a few days ago. Much of it has to do with my permaban on GAF.

Anyway, back on topic, I've seen people mentioning many times that Horizon uses ray marched volumetric fog. I've seen some pretty impressive looking fog myself after playing the game for almost 20 hours. But my question is, are we sure that it's ray marched volumetric fog? What are the telltale signs of the technique?

 

[chris1515]

the guy upload image at Amazon, direct 4k framebuffer from Ps4 Pro size

 

[chris1515]

great volumetric cloud

 

[Clukos]

What are the telltale signs of the technique?

Volumetrics that take the environment (lighting, shadows etc.) into account, some obvious examples:

They also used ray marched volumetrics on Killzone Shadowfall afaik. Two code examples with images:
https://github.com/SlightlyMad/VolumetricLights
http://www.alexandre-pestana.com/volumetric-lights/

 

[Karamazov]

don't know if it's ray marched or Ray Charles or any other technique, but it looks beautiful at any time of the day.

 

[Karamazov]

the guy upload image at Amazon, direct 4k framebuffer from Ps4 Pro size

I Wonder how their cloud tech works, because i took almost the same picture, and clouds are almost in the same patern

http://i.imgur.com/YTLrBUc.jpg

They must be predefined or "baked", unlike driveclub where they are randomly generated.

 

[Silencerx98]

...

Ah, okay, thanks for the clarification.

 

[chris1515]

I Wonder how their cloud tech works, because i took almost the same picture, and clouds are almost in the same patern

http://i.imgur.com/YTLrBUc.jpg

They must be predefined or "baked", unlike driveclub where they are randomly generated.

Don't think so but

http://advances.realtimerendering.c...Cloudscapes of Horizon - Zero Dawn - ARTR.pdf

 

[Shifty Geezer]

I Wonder how their cloud tech works, because i took almost the same picture, and clouds are almost in the same patern

http://i.imgur.com/YTLrBUc.jpg

They must be predefined or "baked", unlike driveclub where they are randomly generated.

Computed from the same random seed would result in the same patterns of any procedural content.