Robin van Ee

@AidenMux @digitalfoundry @oliemack Hot take but games should be optimized for hardware people have. It shouldn't be necessary to buy a €900 console to avoid resolutions that were appropriate in 2004.

@digitalfoundry @oliemack It runs at 720p and sometimes drops to 500p in the performance mode on PS5 & XSX, and people say the PS5 Pro isn't needed... I mean lol

Highly impressive on PC, Dragon Age: The Veilguard scales across well to each of the current generation consoles. @oliemack has the DF tech review for you: youtu.be/LZ6ePY7CapA

@FalconeerDev @gordlittle @willgoldstone Aren’t they all? I started on 2023.1 beta to avoid this kinda thing. It’s been a ride.

@FalconeerDev @hybridherbst The editor has switched to UITK by default but the old IMGUI inspector is still (automatically) used when needed. Not sure what issue you encountered because it’s not gone.

@Cyber_Bleed @Dachsjaeger @astaranx PS5 and Series X versions are usually near-identical anyway. If you’re comparing against PC you don’t need to compare both. DF usually does a console review separately.

My Dragon Age: The Veilguard review for PC will be out tomorrow. You can expect a comparison between PC and PS5, Optimised Settings, an examination of the extra RT options on PC, and a general appraisal of the PC version's quality. I think DA fans will be pleased.

@timsoret @TheRealEricHu That said I think Unity should set themselves more ambitious performance targets. They released that HDRP landscape demo a few years back which could absolutely *murder* a mid-range GPU. I imagine this would run at 20FPS on a PS5 given the relative performance. Who is this for?

@timsoret @TheRealEricHu I wonder what the results are in a build. Running the game in-editor always about halves my performance.

Playing with unity6 and STP(Spatial-temporal post-processing). The fantasy kingdom demo scene runs really well in my cheapest mac mini(m2). STP looks very sharp (compare to FSR) and has much less flickering. By render the scene to 0.75 scale the fps is around 60 to 110.

My Tweets barely get impressions anymore. Not even a quarter of what it was just months ago. Even my timeline only seems to be a handful of accounts. Guess I’ll just follow the crowd.

@LooperVFX @sebify @xoofx @gamefromscratch Yep. That’s the gist of it. It’ll become faster overall too.

@robin_van_ee @sebify it seems they are spending the time/effort on moving to .NET Core lang runtime (CLR) for Unity 7 / next gen for the expressed benefit of things like this? (C# version updates becoming virtually effortless?) @xoofx @gamefromscratch any insights on this? :) discussions.unity.com/t/coreclr-and-…

I wonder why Unity 6 didn't update to c# 10...or it did and I didn't realise it?

@guycalledfrank @noio_games And if a solution for that arrives that I can buy, I'll be sure to evaluate it. Until then I'll use the engine I have with the options it provides. Plus some manually placed sky occluders because that was an easy feature to add.

@robin_van_ee @noio_games It's a questionable excuse. Every large world can be divided into manageable chunks. Modern GPUs are also orders of magnitude faster for baking than what CPUs could do 15 years ago.

bake lighting (i'm joining the discourse)

@guycalledfrank @noio_games CD Projekt, Bethesda, Nintendo, etc. use no light baking for their open world games. CDPR has optional ray tracing just like me. Bethesda and Nintendo use a cubemapping method I've evaluated but don't really like.

@guycalledfrank @noio_games Yes, but these are major companies with big in-house engine teams, and presumably render farms to perform these massive bakes in reasonable timeframes. I'm a solo developer.

@guycalledfrank @noio_games In a 27km² game world with dynamic time of day and weather? Yeah, a lightmapper wouldn't work here. The only baked solutions I evaluated were Enlighten and Adaptive Probe Volumes. I settled on two options, no GI, or ray tracing.

@robin_van_ee @noio_games Any problems with Bakery? 🤔

@_kzr Is that VFX graph?

Enjoying #unity6 ? I had the pleasure of creating its key art visual — using Unity 6, of course!

@Rezuaq @Shaialabeef Yes, without ray tracing it's always going to be inaccurate. But it offers a bit of depth in scenes that would otherwise look flat. Most games do offer a way to turn it off though, which also saves a good chunk of performance. Especially at high resolutions it's quite expensive

@robin_van_ee @Shaialabeef there's been improvements but I still very often see really bad AO (of any implementation), here's SH2 remake with some AO that's too big and dark for the small floor props, and where the contrast compared to the surrounding scene is off, still creating the "outline" effect

nobody: screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO):

We should not worship technologies, and try to push it with no regards to their limitations. Instead recognize the diversity of tech to serve different game designs. It's always chosen for a reason.

Been seeing some worship of baked lighting in here. It often ignores the fact that it's limited to certain genres. Here are some games that do not use any form of baked lighting. Sometimes rolling with no form of indirect lighting at all. Sometimes opting for different options.

@guycalledfrank @noio_games Yeah let me just call Ubisoft and ask if they'll let me borrow their open world engine + render farm. There's no baked lighting solution that would work for me.

@robin_van_ee @noio_games Use better tools.

@robcupisz Ending sentences with "at 30fps on a 4090" is not reassuring. If you ship without a competent 60FPS mode on consoles these days you're not selling.

Oh, people seem to be liking the hair! It’s simulated and rendered as individual strands. LODed as fewer, wider strands in the distance. Fast enough to be part of a large scene (like the grassy fields above) at 30fps on a 4090. Best try it out yourself :)

First Time Ghost scenes released! ✨ We’ve just published two projects: showcasing the character and the grassy environment scene. Have a look at the hair simulation…