DOOM only does reflections, and Metro only uses it for indirect lighting
DOOM only does reflections, and Metro only uses it for indirect lighting
AMetro Exodus Enhanced Edition uses RT for everything as far as I know
Knope, just global illumination
Kit's the same rasterized game
ABut yea DOOM Eternal does only use it for reflections
AWell I heard that if you were able to use a non RT card on the enhanced edition it would be unplayable due to not being able to see anything
Knope, just no GI
Klooks basically the same as the original
Klittle worse in some areas
AAnd reflections
Khybrid there too, still uses SSR
Kwhoops, leaves gone
Ktoo expensive to ray trace that
K(and they aren't in view to SSR)
Kthis is what I mean about RT being too early
Kit's endless cut corners to pretend we're actually at a point that realtime ray tracing is realistic
AIn the enhanced edition there's a setting for hybrid and Ray traced reflections
Pit's an easy sell to devs either way
Pthe promise of having a completely new, easier pipeline for lighting isn't lost on them and the hope is that by the time it's ready we will have a generation of people ready to save time on their work by using it
Kyep, one day
AWell what do you think of UE5 Lumen which can be done in software or hardware accelerated
Pdid u not live to see physx come full circle
KI still have the stain of physx upon my steam library
Ktons of games that will never have all their effects visible or functional
Kdespite the passage of time
Pmodern physx is so good you don't even notice it so
Pthe benefits outweigh
Pthe thing is, devs are going to have to do lighting both ways for a while and eat the extra workload to train themselves on using RT whether or not it makes it into games
AI think metro Exodus Enhanced Edition actually uses physx
Plikely
AI just don't know how people can't tell when Ray Tracing is on or off to be honest like I can tell when it's on
Kbecause games have gotten really good at faking it
Pbecause if it's used correctly the only way to tell is by having extremely good pattern recognition built up from decades worth of playing traditional games
K
Kindirect lighting volumes can get you 80% the way there
Kwithout the massive performance loss
Pthe idea is that ten years from now when all the hardware still in use for gaming has RT by default (it will, they are just a big cluster of SIMD instructions)
Asome people play game for the gameplay not the graphic lol
Pit'll be cheaper and easier than indirect lighting
Praytracing being "physically accurate" is just a bonus
AI don't play games for the graphics either
Aalso having shitty monitor dont help
Pman
Pmy boyfriend didn't believe me when i said his TV was ghosting for about 4 years
Pgame designers spend 1000s of hours making it immersive so you don't notice these things
Pobviously some people aren't going to see the difference
AI will say tho that even something as simple as HDR has a much more obvious difference on vs off than RT on vs off
Pwait til you see light fields
AWhat is that?
Pdisplays that can actually simulate depth
AThat would be crazy