Chapter 3!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d3IkrnIHbU

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Evolving backwards

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Some updates on RenderMan 27 from Pixar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsVQJDsdLsU
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And here's the hint on WHY ray tracing has been delayed: the game has a more dynamic sky system, stuck in-between Dying Light 1 (fully dynamic) and Dying Light 2 (several pre-baked spots):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye1Cc8mfNxs
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And since oddly enough, many of you have no idea what RAGE used to be in the first place: it's ID Tech pioneering on texture streaming:

Before it became a thing in all modern engines and APIs, John had to invent the wheel with MegaTextures project.

And the video is from... 2012

The technology failed due to disk drive requirements and stability on driver and hardware levels.

The uncompressed RAGE levels were over 300GB in size. And so the desired clarity was unreachable for the final game. But lessons were learned and soon all modern engines embraced texture streaming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiQCz2NjPR8
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Yes, these things are great!
(in The Witcher 3 as well)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebixv1k9beo
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Godot 4.6 is finally packed with SSR, that WORKS. To explain the issue: before that, Screen Space Reflections (SSR, a crucial tech for non-RT games) were broken completely.

They were not correctly working with roughness, they were not working well with metals, they were as bad as possible. And were obstructed by any screen-shader.

Now it's fixed and they are almost perfect!

https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-6-dev-3/
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It's possible that AMD is "winning" in certain games by secretly blocking heavy effects, like shadows from translucent objects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynb4raivIpM
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