Some initial stuff on that went into 5.1 I believe...
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Yeah indeed, I find that's true with a large variety of things. Ex. when I update to a new OS my initial impressions are always "ehh it's fine but a bit worse and buggier than the last one", but when I then have to go back and use - ex. Win7 again years later it's very obvious how much worse it is. Obviously both are moving targets in this case, but it's definitely a pattern I've noticed in general.
This shows HW-Reflections, it's has more resolution and reflects more off screen and dynamic (characters) stuff, SW-Reflections only have SSR to work with.
This shows HW-GI, it has more distance range to work with than SW-GI, it also applies to dynamic objects (the underside of the cars), SW-GI don't apply.
HwGi is obviously going to tend to be superior purely for the resolution increase, but aside form just precision something a little unique to sdfs vs proxy meshes is both sides are wrong, but they have different artifacts. I doubt there are any cases where you could obviously see this In Fortnite, but you can easily imagine cases — maybe like, a complicated realistic tree branch — where an aggressively decimated low res polygonal lod might result in big triangles thst completely distort the shape, vs the sdf providing a very low precision version of the original form. Just thinking out loud here though, probably not relevant at the resolution that sw nanite is running?
Haha yes, absolutely. We could make all sorts of parallels. Lumen is such a big improvement it's not even funny. I can't wait to see future games utilizing it and doing tons of creative stuff with it. And yea it will be the same thing with Nanite and pop-in.. and as you say the lack of geometric depth in materials will really separate the new from the old. Regardless of how many polys the geometry consists of, the ability to have little to no visible pop-in between LODs is going to make a huge difference games, it's what really tricks you into believing something is pre-rendered and not rendered in real-time. All those little telltale signs are disappearing, and we're now getting incredibly stable visuals. The lines have been blurred.
Well we underestimated how much epic had optimized their technology to work for consoles after the demos they put out (their assumption probably being that getting their engine to run well on console as the baseline of the next generation essentially solves the problem across the board for the future hardware.
Art>realism anyway
With that, I can 100% confirm the consoles are using software Raytracing.Fortnite actually has mirror self-reflections for the character on the PS4 version! There is really no way to add a blob barely looking like a human on PS5? For me it's such an eyesore and mirror aside we are often in front of reflecting surfaces when hiding in Fortnite.
EDIT: The 120hz mode on PS5 also lacks the character reflection. So it's not only about lumen or nanite preventing it.
That's quite a difference. I wonder how that person from ResetEra achieved this. It's the exact same spot and TOD. But how...!? HW-RT requires a restart.
He recorded his latest match as "gameplay demo". He can playback "replay" that demo with any settings and any camera angle.
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