• steeznson@lemmy.world
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    1 天前

    Raytracing is being pushed so hard by the industry because it makes things easier for devs as opposed to making the games look better for the customer.

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      24 小时前

      There is absolutely nothing about raytracing which makes it “easier” for devs compared to a traditional render pipeline.

      The extra performance rquirements alone mean you’re going to be doing more work elsewhere to make up for it, and that’s ignoring the current bugs/quirks with RT in whatever engine you’re using.

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        19 小时前

        The extra performance rquirements alone mean you’re going to be doing more work elsewhere to make up for it, and that’s ignoring the current bugs/quirks with RT in whatever engine you’re using.

        No worries, we got upscaling and frame generation now!

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        19 小时前

        Yes, you can skip simulating GI with many small lights. Not a game dev, I work in animation. Up until fifteen years ago this was still a regularly taken approach to lighting scenes, before the advent of pathtracers

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        19 小时前

        I thought the ultimate goal was to encapsulate the lighting system entirely inside the engine to stop programmers/artists needing to micro manage light sources. Presumably if a game only supported ray tracing then they could interact with an environment at the object level and trust the lighting would work in a life-like manner without having to be confected as part of development.

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          17 小时前

          trust the lighting would work in a life-like manner

          Ah we’ve had raytracing for a long time already, and you can download something like Blender and play around with it yourself. You’ll quickly discover that just because it conforms to some real-world principles (and works in a reliable manner) doesn’t mean it’s a magic tool that Just Works and immediately makes anything look good.

          You still have to setup your world lighting (point/sun lights, skyboxes, emissive materials, whatever), adjust it to get the look you want, and your hardware requirement for testing this are now increased.

          Raytracing is nice because it can make things look even better, not because it replaces parts of the workflow.

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            16 小时前

            you still need to setup your world lighting

            That was the locus of my misunderstanding. Thanks for explaining!