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Graphic Fidelity I Expect Next Gen.
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Yup it's quite nice little trick.Next Gen is here, just look at how this rock asset blends into the terrain in AC Valhalla. So sexy!
The environments in Valhalla look so amazing, such a beautiful game. I am not sure if Ubisoft gets enough credit for the amazing job they did with the open world in Valhalla.
Basic idea is to take texture of ground and project it to object depending distance from ground and object normal.
Really hope we will see some form of additional trick for the ground around the stone in new generation.
Erosion or soil movement depending on the effect of stone/trees blocking the movement of soil.
Might be possible with object distance field, ground tilt/direction affecting height/normal of ground and texture.. (Stone/tree on tilted surface could gather soil above it and cause void under it..)
No sir. They did not utilize mesh blending for terrain assets in the previous Assassin Creed games. I actually made a few posts about it earlier in this thread and used Odyssey as an example.
Lol. Nobody is going to remember, but last year in this thread I made a point about mesh blending of terrain assets and use the previous Assassin Creed games as an example. The next gen graphical feature I expect is mesh blending and Valhalla delivered on that! (for the most part). Seriously though, I agree, it's not a next-gen visually experience even though it is a very beautiful open world game (top 3 in my opinion). The characters, the animations, physics, etc., they are all very much last gen.
Mesh blending has been used already in games prior to Valhalla, not something id consider next gen.
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Yeah Unreal 5 games won't emerge for a good while yet but they look to absolutely change the game with what we see on screen giving it a far more CGI look. That's the real next gen there if the demo was anything to go by.
There are other next gen engines other than Unreal 5, the new Battlefield will look just as incredible in my opinion.
Yeah, but rarely. It needs to be standard for next-gen. It makes such a huge visual difference. In fact, I will go as far as saying that it is one of the main reasons why the environments in RDR2, Ghost of Tsushima, and Valhalla look so amazing.
Yeah… God of War (2018) with the PS5 patch looks incredible.I can't believe this is now last gen. (Second one is Uncharted 4).
I can't even imagine what Ragnarok is going to look like.
If Sony released an update for UC4 that would jump to the top of the current best looking games
It certainly goes a long way i agree with that.
It always will. We just go through this cycle every generation where people think that having to support a lower common denominator suddenly wont hold back visuals.
I have to say the most impressed I've been so far purely visually is the short clips of the in development EA games. Battlefield 6 will be one of the first jaw dropping visual feasts of this generation imo with large numbers of incredibly detailed characters and vehicles on screen all with destructible physics systems which interact with one another in massive photo realistic maps.
I don't know what it is but I was rather unimpressed with the UE5 tech demo in terms of it's visuals. It looked very much on par with what we've seen from ND, CD, R* etc this generation although obviously the very last scene was impressive for the speed in which the World was traveled while also being destroyed.
I'm just hesitant to believe that sort of thing until I see it in a game though after the PS4 Capcom dragon and the early Ubisoft bullshit last gen aswell as the bullshit we're fed when it comes to visuals at the start of every generation in the form of tech demos and vertical slices.
I don't know what it is but I was rather unimpressed with the UE5 tech demo in terms of it's visuals. It looked very much on par with what we've seen from ND, CD, R* etc this generation although obviously the very last scene was impressive for the speed in which the World was traveled while also being destroyed.
I'm just hesitant to believe that sort of thing until I see it in a game though after the PS4 Capcom dragon and the early Ubisoft bullshit last gen aswell as the bullshit we're fed when it comes to visuals at the start of every generation in the form of tech demos and vertical slices.
Is BF6 cross-gen? If so, how will that impact the visuals. I'm sure it will be stunning as you said.
I hope it isn't but even if it is I still expect it to limit last gen to half the players at half the framerate while also removing a lot of the destruction with additional downgrades to lighting and textures.
Hopefully CP77 showed publishers not to try and ram a square peg into a circle hole when it comes to trying to squeeze next gen projects onto last gen hardware.
The last rumor I saw was that it's primarily next-gen with a stripped-back external last-gen port, old school style.
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Supposedly a separate team working on the last gen port and it'll be missing the more advanced features from the next gen version.
Not confirmed though, just leaked info that we don't know if it's true or not.
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I can't fucking wait until we get our first glimpse at UE5 games from big studios. I am fascinated to see what it will be like in practice.
It should allow to make bigger worlds more easily with 64bit coordinate system.
UE4 just got support for quite bit larger textures in runtime virtual texturing, so it's now usable for large areas. (Use additional indirection in virtual texture.)
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I'm happy with what we have right now and I'm still on a ps4. Concerning this new generation, I can't say I've been blown away by anything at all, though I'm sure future titles will look amazing all round. Right now I'm just thinking how Last Of Us 2 would look like with 60fps, pretty damn great I assume.
Nanite can be used for dynamic assets as well. But it cannot be used on deformable objects.
Not going into details about the technology but rather just looking at a single frame of it's cave environment vs something like a Sony first party game like God of War or Shadow of the Tomb Raider on a high end PC I personally don't think it looks like a generational leap.
Zoom in on it's textures then yes, the real time GI of course and as I said the final part with the fast moving traversal and destruction mean it's certainly next gen. My point was compare a frame of it vs a frame of the best of this gen (purely visual) and it doesn't blow me away personally. Then there's the fact it's a tech demo so it's not running the multitudes of code that's usually required in the background.
its about the whole thing in action not comparing textures...
Speaking of woods and forests, Cold War has some pretty damn good looking ones for an early next gen game (since, you know, this thread should be focusing on that )!
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I think some people confused deformable with dynamic. I did a double take when I read that as well.
Another year, maybe 2 and things should really get going.
Hoping we'll see some insanity visually by the end of this year.
I'm ready for the older consoles to drop from the development cycle.
Hoping we'll see some insanity visually by the end of this year.
I'm ready for the older consoles to drop from the development cycle.
Are you sure if it is just that or (that and) seeing far too many baby diapers?
I do hope parenthood is treating you kindly.
We are just waiting patiently for you all to show it to us again at this point 😁 (but also take your time)
Nggh, can't wait to play it and see it on a big 4K screen.
I really hope for a State Of Play next month!
Ratchet & Clank are so dear to me... and just by seeing Rift Apart trailers, I know you've put so much love into this episode, so I'm really hyped!
