Comment on Anon turns on raytracing

• AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For the resolution of the texture to need to be doubled along each axis, you could either have a monitor with twice the resolution, or you could be half the distance away. Most of the time games will let you get closer to objects than their texture resolution looks good for. So 4k textures still give an improvement even on a 1080p monitor.

  Texture resolution is chosen on a case by case basis, objects that the player will usually be very close to have higher resolution textures, and ones that are impossible to approach can use lower resolution.

  The only costs to including higher resolution textures are artist time and (usually) disk space. Artist time is outsourced to countries with cheap labor (Philippines, Indonesia, etc) and apparently no-one cares about disk space.

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  • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is such a minor improvement, though. Especially, as you’ve mentioned, on a 1080p screen. And, sorry to say, but having to waste 150+ Gigs of space for a 20-30 hour game is a complete waste with, as I’me said several times, immensely diminished returns.

    Let’s take UE5, for instance. Texture streaming has become necessary because we can’t afford to have a cogherent texture map loaded in all at once, precisely because those textures are stupidly large. This causes so, so many performance issues, that I’d argue it’s been a downgrade even coming off UE3.

    I’d rather have a smooth and OK-looking game which doesn’t require me to get a second SSD just to fit it all, than to face significant stutters every time I do a 180° turn because the engine is struggling to load Gigs of uncached textures, which, again, barely look any better.

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