Real-time rendering is getting pretty crazy
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I wouldn't mind in game cinematics that look like that.
mental ray/vray almost seem slow and dated now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4No43o7zkDQ[/ame]I wouldn't mind in game cinematics that look like that.
mental ray/vray almost seem slow and dated now.
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I have to point it out though, your mental ray render has no lens effects or post work, so there's no comparison there at all :poly121:
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I'd scan it, but my antivirus just expired, I put up a warning, if someone could confirm or disprove it, that would be great.
I concur.
GPU accelerated Rasterizer Vs. Mentalrays + super expensive DOF.
Its awesome but the comparison is pretty faulty
Still there's a lot of things that could really used speeding up in mental ray, FG takes a while, I saw a gpu version that did it 10-40 times quicker, race tracing anything is slow, glossy reflections and/or transparentcy are horrible, fog and other various effects are bad too.
That should have compared it to PRMan.
Turn off the DOF in that scene, add raytraced reflections, put SSS on the skin and the results would be very different.
But yeah raytracing is way to cpu restricted right now.
You should take a look at Vray RT
http://www.google.ie/search?q=vray+RT&hl=en&safe=off&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=JDzHS7T0H6L40wTEmIXVDA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCAQqwQwAw
Its GPU accelerated and crazy fast (some vids says it isnt but they are old)
I dont know, i think the importance of high end individual assets can be overstated. I would take a game full of average assets, with a great lighting system, well done posts and consistent art direction over a game with super high quality assets, but shitty lighting system etc. I think its easy to underestimate or take for granted how much proper light bakes, or even realtime AO, radiosity, nice shadows, dynamic lights, a proper cubemap imagebased lighting/specularity system, effects like well done depth of field and basic hue, contrast, saturation, etc post effects will add to the end results of a game.
There is mountains of tech that go into creating a really stunning game these days, and it really isnt anything like it used to be where it really was 80-90% just the quality of the art assets.
Ideally you have a competent team of both artists and graphics programmers, as well as good tools to have great art assets, and great lighting and post work. But honestly i would rather have the average art assets with great everything else, because there is only so much to be added by realistically sculpting in every pore on every character, or designing the coolest most stylized stuff ever if the presentation sucks, its going to look like dick with poor presentation.
Yeah.. thats not really true nowadays. Awesome lighting saves even the ugliest props. Look at Bad Company 2. They have awesome lighting in most places and the game looks GREAT, but when you step inside a building and see a flat-lit prop. Then it just looks..horrible, in fact. Just some..tiling textures on a simple shape. Put it outside in the sunlight and cue the angel choirs.
Or the fact that boxes in cryengine2 look better than many games props ^^
if it is only alpha normal spec and diffuse they can be really close.
if your scene enables refraction reflections etc etc things are different
but indeed we are close to getting mR quality in real time. Just a few more years around the corner i would guess.
for that quality that is shown above in that character render 3dsmax can achieve in the viewport in much faster time.
even photometric lights work great and you can render a sequence with any camera based multi-pass fx you want.
EQ i'm very much agreeing with what you say. But it is what gamers expect today. I agree that sweating over the pores in zbrush is an overkill.. when i say that to some of my friends they look at me as if i'm an alien especially since every big studio highlights how much amazing the pores or stubble look and as if their work would look sub-par if it didn't have pores
Lighting and animation is what makes or breaks the mood, and even mediocre assets with expert lighting and proper colour grading can look awesome!
Even the best assets are ruined if lighting and camera work fails to establish the mood.