And you one of those that are not? Look at Unreal Engine 5. Do you know how old UE? 23 years old. Core is the same from 1998, just updated parts like rendering engine, physics, lighting, shaders, etc. Also Cobra is highly modular engine.
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"Cobra is highly modular engine" source?
Oh yeah, just slap "shader.exe" and bam, you're next gen. That's what you do right ?
Also, we are speaking of an engine who is apparently unable to show more than one sun in a planet sky.
Dont remember, seen in some dev stream, Braben stream I think. He said how easy is to change some parts there wtihout rewriting everything. And that this engine is ready for everything that planned - procgen cities, legs, earth-like planets, etc.
Awesome. Cant wait for them to implement it.
It's probably on that other build they talked about during alpha. You know, the one without bugs, fully optimised, and without the missing 75% of content ?
I'd politely ask you to stop considering someone else's opinion "sillyness" and respect a different point of view, thanks
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I know right, I was surprised to. Learned that today. I'm speaking suns, not stars. So if you are in a binary system, apparently, only one sun will show up in the sky. Then I remembered I never saw more than one sun in the sky when landed. Not that I remember.
Someone posted about how the game pick the "primary" star, can't find it anymore.
Man, you should go and work for Epic, they'd really love your insight, it's so easy for you. Here they are spending years making a new engine, and you're like "just rewrite some stuff and you're done".
It effects meshes quality, not just textures.
Maybe the number of bugs mislead you, that's understandable, but we're not talking about Cyberpunk now.
And Cobra still does not support it. Talk about next gen, lol.
Ray tracing was a way for NVidia to sell RTX cards for no good reason. So far, there's very few games out there that are better with ray tracing - according to the articles I have seen. In fact - some games implemented it, then cut it out of the final game because of poor performance other than in screen shots. (Yes, Watch Dogs, I am talking about you.)
Ive seen screenshots with three "suns" (system stars) on planets with atmosphere. Dunno what youre talking about.
Its easier than you think. Even Bethesda can do it with their engine. And Epic dont make a new engine, they just upgrading some of its parts. UE5 is backward compatible with UE4.
Yeah they missed with RTX, but they made DLSS based on it.
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I know I shouldn't reply because you do like to just stir things up, but you really do talk some rubbish. If all you're going to do is go around and pick holes in things and say how terrible things like the game engine are, you can at least make sure your information is correct.
Have 3 suns seen from a planet's surface.
That was a post I read today. I was surprised myself. Apparently it was wrong. Can't find the post, someone asking how the primary star is picked. Or something.I know I shouldn't reply because you do like to just stir things up, but you really do talk some rubbish. If all you're going to do is go around and pick holes in things and say how terrible things like the game engine are, you can at least make sure your information is correct.
Have 3 suns seen from a planet's surface.
You mean the gamebryo modified engine, which had poor optimisation for Fallout 4 because they added new stuff ? The one that is super dated ?
That's funny, I wanted to use that one as an example of dated engine with new lipstick, but didn't. Eventually you did yourself. I guess that's a self burn.
That last point is mainly because neither the engines nor the programming methods used on graphics programing fit the RT model.
Have a look at Metro Exodus Enhanced, they removed all non RT light sources and enabled RT for everything else. Result: It looks really good and needs even less performance than a mixed lightning system they had before.
So RT is cool but at the moment useless because you alienate half the player base (AMD GPUs).
He may be confusing two things, star numbers and lighting.
There may be 3 stars in the sky, but you only have one shadow
There may be 3 stars in the sky, but you only have one shadow
Idk, Cyberpunk looked pretty awesome with it. It's true though that a 2080 is barely powerful enough for ray tracing, so all I could get was a stable 60 fps (pun intended).