mind=blown

[FFR4EVA_00]

Re: mind=blown

I'm pretty sure they don't have 170,000 hard drives linked together to run this, even if each "block" is instanced and taking up far less space. In the video, when they converted that elephant statue to a pointcloud, there are DEFINITELY NOT MILLIONS OF POINTS IN THAT MODEL, sure I'm sure it has the capability to render those at that sort of definition, but it's pretty god damn pointless to model anything at a 1 billion polygon level, so each model placed in this engine isn't going to actually take up all that much space.

* I was trying to show that there was no way there was that much UNIQUE data in the world, and that everything had to be made up of repeated chunks.

welp

[darkshark]

Re: mind=blown

That's what I said?

The point I'm trying to get at is that there are obviously going to have to be optimizations taking place with this new engine, or any other engine for that matter.

It would be nice to have a hybrid engine that could work with polygons for animated characters and such, and voxel rendering for environments.

[fido123]

Re: mind=blown

If it the particles would be generated with a smaller amount of data wouldn't that just make this all insanely CPU intensive?

[ninjaKIWI]

Re: mind=blown

You wouldn't need to have exabyte drives sheesh. There would obviously be tweaking and optimization to each game just like the current process. Things like those clumps of dirt could be procedurally generated, which would only take up maybe 1mb worth of space instead of including each clump as a piece of geometry. Same with pretty much every other type of fine detail, procedural is the way to go.

haha, I was just trying to be ridiculous. I mean it's not like they're going to have exabyte drives to demo it. I guess it's kind of hard to relay intent through text.

It would be nice to have a hybrid engine that could work with polygons for animated characters and such, and voxel rendering for environments.

The id Tech 6 engine is doing exactly this, actually.

[Izzy]

Re: mind=blown

I was just thinking about something today that sort of reminded me of this concept. Say I am running 4 games at the same time all one on top of eachother. You would only be able to see the top one, yet your computer is doing all the work rendering every single game. Now I know windows is smart enough to not render explorer windows that aren't visible, but it doesn't know how to do that for games. Microsoft needs to make it so that only the visible parts are rendered so that minimizing games doesn't take any system resources.

[Reincarnate]

Re: mind=blown

What the ****, how is this not just voxel tech. I smell snake oil. And lol "unlimited," way to appeal to the ignorant. And lol there's not a single animated entity in that video (as predicted) -- this is a scam, scam, scammy scam scam.

I'm more excited about John Carmack's upcoming ID Tech 5 engine.

[stargroup100]

Re: mind=blown

For a while now I wanted to say SOMETHING pertaining to this topic but any discussion related to this just feels awkward for some reason.

[Reach]

Re: mind=blown

What the ****, how is this not just voxel tech. I smell snake oil. And lol "unlimited," way to appeal to the ignorant. And lol there's not a single animated entity in that video (as predicted) -- this is a scam, scam, scammy scam scam.

I'm more excited about John Carmack's upcoming ID Tech 5 engine.

It is voxel tech.

Scam.