Re:Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing
by bhouston on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @03:04AM
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The cost of games is not the render engine, remember that most use ue4 or unity. The cost of games 90% is asset and gameplay and UI/UX development.
Re:Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing
by hyperpallium on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:00AM
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By "larger worlds at higher res" I meant higher cost of asset development.
For a long time, games pushed the graphics envelope, but that doesn't seem the case any more. So perhaps that's less important today, and GPUs have overshot gamer needs.
OTOH, development costs of AAA games are incredibly high. with larger worlds at higher res. Even worse at 4K.
So the question of the magnitudes remains.
2018: the year of raytracing in games, finally?
A data-point is that Imagination has had hardware raytracing for several years now: https://www.imgtec.com/legacy-gpu-cores/ray-tracing/ But without publicised success.