Polygons, voxels, SDFs... what will our geometry be made of in the future?

Ok than tell me these games? I thinks it’s more the opposite. If you think about Fortnite and world of Warcraft have now Raytracing and the game looks ugly at all because of missing geometry

 

Interview with Atomontage from April 2019 that mentions a game using the technology being in prototyping phase. News to me.



I've recently become quite obsessed about true voxel-based games

 

There seems no term, people always need to describe that difference with saying things like 'global grid' vs. 'many, transformable volume objects', or whatever.
'True voxels' would be an idea, but it degrades the second option to be somewhat worse or half assed, which is not justified. (Why should we constantly re-voxelize our dynamic objects to a global grid just to display them? / Why should we accept the resulting temporal aliasing?)
I would only agree to your preference of global voxels if we talk about content creation but not game runtimes.

Well, after using voxels myself since some time i understand Siles volumetric vision a bit better. He's right with some things, and long before i was following his work with great interest.
But then they lost me with bold claims about a volumetric future, a paradigm shift, a revolution that makes it all better.
Maybe i would believe this if they would show some nice tools about volumetric content creation. But all i see is scanned content, and you can poke some spheres out of that. That does not really make content creation easier or possible at all.

Non the less, a demo game would be great. I would not mind if characters or vehicles use traditional triangles.

 

If you look the minecraft video you see that it is not a simple mindgraft sceen there are many corner and edges, so a lot of geometry. Without this it will look ugly. Also i think you don't need expensive RT effects i think you can reach the same level of detail with normal shader lightning. Thats is my point. Of cause if you use cheep lightning it will looks ugly to, but if you have mdium lightning and good geometry it will looks much better than good lightnind and medium geometry.

 

Derive it:
AABB -> OBB
Axis Aligned Voxel [Hierarchy] -> Oriented Voxel [Hierarchy]
AAV[H] -> OV[H]


The AAVH is also known as ... Octree

 

Sweet baby Jesus.

 

Yup and it is certainly already possible. But a complete nightmare when it comes to youtube compression.

 

hmmm... with the derivation i would know. But if you only say 'octree', i would still assume you might store oriented stuff in your nodes, you cheater!

Sorry for accusing you axis aligned fetishism, then.

 

more of this cool stuff here: https://www.grantkot.com/

 

Hehe, me too (in a good way). Super relaxing.

 

MediaMolecule's Alex is now at NVIDIA. I hope this means that NVIDIA is working on tech to bring us hardware-accelerated voxels. Mmm... "voxelerator"... well, I really hope so!

 

Continuing on the voxel theme, an update on voxel fluids:

 

Nice. Do you use procedural turbulence, or is this all native simulation?

 

It's computed at full resolution without adding procedural detail.
The vorticity is boosted a bit to compensate for simulation loss.

 

Has anybody mentioned Clayxels plug-in fo Unity? It allows SDF modeling and rendering very similar to Dreams.





There are tons of experiments recorded and shared on youtube.

 

Fantastic technical presentation from teardown folks. It's understandable without too much technical knowledge. Presenter does good job from going high level details into lower level details like octree implementation.