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Star Wars Battlefront 8K ray tracing mod: looks better than movie CGI
- Thread starter IbizaPocholo
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Visuals look good (image quality). But once the movement starts, it's janky. It looks better than usual too since all the HUD is gone which is always a mood killer for atmosphere. UBI games are the worst for that.
Bo_Hazem
Banned
It's using Quixel Megascans there anyway.
Tomofdahook17
Member
Tomofdahook17
Member
You're going to see quality close to this. Especially from Naughty Dog or Insomniac. It's obviously not going to be on this level but I think you'll get ray traced reflections and lighting in some linear single player games.
Deerock71
Member
And you talk about hyperbole?!Always gotta abuse hyperbole. It does look very good, but no. It doesn't look "better than movie CGI" The environments are closer, but the character models aren't even in the same galaxy (far, far away).
Fbh
Member
Looks pretty good IMO.
It doesn't look better than movie CGI but it can look more consistent since all is rendered in game. Movies still suffer from a distracting fake look when too much CGI is in use as the contrast between real actors and set elements with CGI is still not 100% there.
It doesn't look better than movie CGI but it can look more consistent since all is rendered in game. Movies still suffer from a distracting fake look when too much CGI is in use as the contrast between real actors and set elements with CGI is still not 100% there.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
It absolutely does not. The wide shots look nice, but the close-ups of rocks look very low-poly and obviously gamey.
niilokin
Member
most movie CGI has very soft look and usually are being obscured with weird lighting, IMO those OPs images look really good and sharp. The ASC (The Eye:Calanthek) short film that Epic Games released is also very impressive since it's real time, I played around with the Teuthisan creature project on UE5 and I hope that kind of fidelity (not pure look) will become standard for games with realistic art directions.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Ya.
Hollywood CGI looks awesome for static objects and weird shit like lasers and explosions.
Biggest problem is the way they move. The whole physics thing where everything from giant spaceships to dragons to a super hero jumping and swinging around looks so bad. Good example is Legolas when they'd make him do CGI moves. Looks dreadful.
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ozz ex machina
Member
When will people stop giving a shit about graphics? I feel like we are 100% at a point now where it's way more about art style and frame-rate now. I don't want ultra realism.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Um no, it looks and plays better.
The_Observer
Member
It’s sad that so many people fall for “omg rtx looks so nextgen” while it just looks like it received a ton of bloom. My favorite is when they go nuts thinking screen space reflections and other types of “fake reflections” are rtx then they realize that it’s not. Fucking waste of performance...
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
Lethal01
Member
They are right, Raytraced lighting is the most important thing when it comes to looking next gen, nothing screen space comes anywhere close.
The_Observer
Member
Yes it is, and let me know when we can see clear improvements that worth the performance cost. I haven’t seen any real game yet. Metro comes closest but even that did not strike me as a huge upgrade. Until then it’s just a marketing point for which the mass falls.
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Lethal01
Member
It's been worth the performance/resolution sacrifices in the majority of games it's been used in, the improvements are always clear unless you are comparing using a rough wall in a game that only uses ray tracing for reflections.
Metro Exodus is a world apart when using raytracing, so is Control, Ratchet and Clank etc.
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
It looks solid but I was disappointed that the blaster fire isn't really casting any light, and refflecting on anything (or at least it's incredibly understated and inaccurate).
Knightime_X
Member
That framerate is rough, though.
The_Observer
Member
I guess “world apart” means a pretty different thing to you and me.
ShirAhava
Plays with kids toys, in the adult gaming world
Plays better is an opinion, one that I and many others disagree with
but BF2 2017 being a graphical downgrade from BF 2015 is a fact
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 - Downgraded Graphics?! | Battlefront 1 Comparison | 4K Ultra HD - YouTube
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
01011001
Banned
that attack animation on the bottom is awful...That’s impressive 5 years ago. Its all about animations and enemy AI..
Rock photoscans arent impressive to me. I hope games focus on this more during “next-gen”.
weak windeup, weak impact, no easing at the end. it's literally just some guy in a mocap suit swining a knife back and forth... there is nothing great about that
DMC1 on PS2 has better attack animations...
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HellforLeather
Member
The first game looks better.
As far as being better than CGI...sure, but which movie?
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
JackMcGunns
Member
Your hyperbole is weak!
Next time say: Better than real life!
You're welcome.
Next time say: Better than real life!
You're welcome.
Lethal01
Member
It means the difference between GTA3 and GTA 5. The difference between witcher 3 on switch vs pc or the difference between metreo Exodus with vs without ray tracing.
The_Observer
Member
Are you trolling me now or are you serious? The difference between Metro Exodus with and without raytracing is in the same category as the difference between GTA3 and GTA5? I understand that technically it might be but I’m talking strictly about looks, what your eyes see when you play.
cinnamonandgravy
Member
but im still using a 980ti.
(refuse to pay current GPU prices)
(refuse to pay current GPU prices)
Lethal01
Member
I'll take one step back, it's the difference between GTA4 on ps3 and GTA5 at max setting with mod on PC.
ResetEraVetVIP
Member
That’s impressive 5 years ago. Its all about animations and enemy AI..
Rock photoscans arent impressive to me. I hope games focus on this more during “next-gen”.
TLOU II uses motion matching technology...
ResetEraVetVIP
Member
This is next gen.
Lethal01
Member
Yeah, next gen as in PS6
ResetEraVetVIP
Member
We can get close in 3 to 5 years this generation…
Lethal01
Member
You know what, being hopeful I'll say maybe. This is a very small and simple environment with just 2 skinned character on screen, very little reflections or emissive, no foliage and only lit by only 1 or 2 lights. Very suited to being a game and rendering quickly.
Maintaining this level of quality through various environments light a city or a forest village though? I wouldn't get my hopes up when this is a video that took minutes to render each frame the fractions of a second games would have to do it in.
ZehDon
Member
... correct? I said this in my post:
This is motion matching. If you're not familiar with what motion matching means, I'd recommend starting with the motion matching intro Ubisoft Montreal put together. If you've got lots and lots and lots of man power, like Naughty Dog, you can stuff your system full of really nice animations and motion matching blends between them to make it look really nice. But, it's still all canned. This is why the two gifs of the two arrow removals are identical - there's probably just one animation in the system for that scenario.
Contrast this against Euphoria, which hands off between pre-canned animations and dynamically created ones based on in-game forces. This allows for extremely realistic and dynamic animations for everything. That's more impressive, and I find the results to be more realistic, than just lots and lots of pre-canned animations.