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Excited to see RTX in such a performant engine as Source!
Speaking of HL: Alyx, has there been a VR game with RTX support yet? Ray tracing is one thing, I'm mostly curious as to how DLSS 2.0 does on it.
Speaking of HL: Alyx, has there been a VR game with RTX support yet? Ray tracing is one thing, I'm mostly curious as to how DLSS 2.0 does on it.
As of right now I don't recall any VR game officially supporting RT, I think it's mostly because it's so resource intensive even for pancake version counting dlss as help.
I get that for sure. I'm thinking mainly about how DLSS would do sans RT (the implementation a number of games were announced to have at Nvidia's recent keynote). VR performance and image quality being what it is, I wonder how much better you could make the image look for the same performance cost. The quality of DLSS implementation can vary, I know, but if motion artefacts were at a minimum and fine details resolved much more solidly, I feel like that could really elevate immersion.
DLSS 2.1 added VR support, so I wouldn't be shocked if Alyx got features
Vindictus with RTX!!!
Nah, fuck that. Vindictus is still regular old Source Engine and poorly optimized. The game would be a slideshow with RTX. Not that Devcat would add that anyway.
Nah, fuck that. Vindictus is still regular old Source Engine and poorly optimized. The game would be a slideshow with RTX. Not that Devcat would add that anyway.
Yes but that's also true of most iterations of most engines. idTech 7 is actually a heavily modified idTech 6. Unreal Engine 5 is a heavily modified Unreal Engine 4, which was a heavily modified Unreal Engine 3, etc.
I think nvidia added a similar technique to VR last year, it's more tied to AA than it is to reconstruction, i forgot what's it called but basically the center of your image would have the highest possible resolution while the rest is kept low in order to preserve performance since you as a user wouldn't notice in the first place. Real dlss would be fire though.
..and Source 1 is a heavily updated GoldSrc engine? And GoldSrc is a heavily updated Quake engine?
Half Life 2 is Source 1.
Apparently the next Half Life isn't going to be a VR game, according to that Keyleigh documentary. So I guess this could be used for HL3, cause RTX in VR sounds a bit much right now (I can barely tell the difference between current presets on my quest 2 for Alyx)
Apparently the next Half Life isn't going to be a VR game, according to that Keyleigh documentary. So I guess this could be used for HL3, cause RTX in VR sounds a bit much right now (I can barely tell the difference between current presets on my quest 2 for Alyx)
S&Box (spiritual successor to Garry's Mod by Facepunch Studios)
s&box
Our spiritual successor to Garry's Mod, this is a game creation platform built on the Source 2 engine.
Artifact sounds like a really good game to test this, being less graphically intensive and all that. Interesting.
Oh wow, I didn't know this was on dev. And I see Garry Newman is on board, sweet.S&Box (spiritual successor to Garry's Mod by Facepunch Studios)
s&box
Our spiritual successor to Garry's Mod, this is a game creation platform built on the Source 2 engine.sbox.facepunch.com
Facepunch Studios is owned by Garry Newman iirc. He started it for the retail version of Garry's Mod.
Another thing I didn't know lol I honestly think it was an offspring of the old forums and that's it.
They gave it to Gary (from Gary's Mod) to try on not that far ago. I guess the whole Covid and HLA delayed them a bit.
Oh damn, exciting! (Although I only own PSVR so it's not like I can play it hahaha)
Haven't read up on it but that sounds like Fixed Foveated Rendering. So instead of adjusting the high res center dynamically with eye tracking (like foveated rendering) it just counts on you spending most of your time staring down the central zone of the image. That's a great technique and, yeah, I would love to see it with DLSS.
I'm still hoping PSVR 2 features actual eye-tracked Foveated Rendering. There were patents and rumors to suggest they'd actually be doing it (if they can pull it off).That's the holy grail, man. I'd love to see it.
Cool, I was wondering if/when this was gonna happen. It'd be pretty great if they ported all their old Source 1 games over, but it's been so long with no sign of an update for CS:GO that I'm betting they would rather just reboot the whole game.
They could do RT shadows and potentially replace baked lighting with real time GI.
I don't think it said that. In fact I think it's more likely HL3 (or whatever they call the next Gordon game) is going to be a VR game. It *could* be both, but on the VR side of it they would not be able to do something with the scope of Half-Life Alyx.
Perhaps they could go very heavy with the focus on raytracing for the next half life to be their big tech showcase? I recall them mentioning that when it came to half life games, they wanted them to do something new and unique for each of them, like the physics in HL2.
they can always remaster the textures to accommodate a new realtime lighting pipeline, like Quake and Minecraft
Realtime lighting is not a useful exercise unless you are planning to have a substantial number of dynamic lights - dynamic time of day, muzzleflashes, etc... I can't think of a single Valve game which would benefit from this, although I've never touched DOTA2 in any capacity.
Source's prebaked lighting already includes precalculated light bounces, GI, etc. There are also some limited forms of dynamic light within the engine but I understand their usage is limited by only allowing a certain amount in any one scene.
