Fallout 4 being licensed to Obsidian (I suppose that's what you meant?)? Well, they just bought the rights to Fallout 3, not like they can work on 4 already.
urban legend crysis(everything on high) runs actually faster on my workmashine than cod 4(everything on high) ... 6 compared to 4 fps, or something like that ;)
Yeah, in an ideal world you would have a two layer setup for laqured wood, however its pretty easy to get by with only representing the outer layer in the normal map and gloss, as the roughness of the base wood would give the specular highlight a dim appearance. Its harder to do that when the layer below is significantly…
Looks like they might have used a mixture of different effects to achieve the final result. 1) There is a special transparency on the mesh using the buffer so you don't see into the backfaces of the geo. It's a bit like taking a screengrab every frame and turning down the opacity in photoshop for that element instead of…