Have you made a game before?
Baked lighting is the big problem here. Every single developer understands this and is why things aren't static. You can only go so far with baked lighting especially when you are targeting open-world environments with dynamic TOD.
Yes, you can do that and I don't think this thread is about how to make a game look better than an RT equipped game. The RT equipped game can also have correct geometry and high resolution textures, so that's a moot point. The fact is that the game with out RT will be lacking the capabilities of the game with RT. We are talking about lighting and shading here. I'm sorry but RT will always be superior to baked and will also allow a "real" result compared to a crude approximation that requires a lot of artists tweaking it.
Typical PS fanboy comment. Exclusives don't drive milestones in tech and visuals as most people of the console warrior calibur want to believe. And as far as "squeeze" out performance? How about looking at the past gen and seeing how come the devs couldn't achieve native 4k in their games without resorting to either low res textures, sticking to 4X anisotropic filtering, limiting FPS to 30, dynamic resolution or some sort of upscaling.
Aww, Im done actually ever politely discussing anything with you - you've called me a PS fan twice for instance and I've never owned the console.
Have you? I bet you have.
Me on the other hand, I am masterfully proficient at a lot more than I care to list here... and nothing you've said has done anything to deflect what I've cited. That being - that I highly prefer the demo's in my previous reply.. and those demo's do one thing and one thing only - they focus on photorealism/high res textures and older techniques now overlooked due to the buzzword "RTX" - but the focus on delivering photorealism - by simply sourcing from high res texture assets - that one change in art style would transform the game industry - and again I much prefer that to weak implementation's of RTX.
RTX result's in the case of lighting that can in fact be rendered traditionally through sampling a 1024bit render of said scene at varying intervals and then painting custom maps that match these nuanced light structures shown off by RTX. Fake RTX. A technique never done in gaming but all artist's up to snuff know is possible.
Im an Xbox fan, by the way.
Also, let's not forget the Recent UE5 demo showing character's *GASP* running around in environment's utilizing textures that match/exceed what were listed in the demo's cited in my previous post.
And surely boasting a far larger polygon count.
So again, I guess consoles in fact "Magically" do in fact have the performance to handle at least what I personally have listed.
Particularly if you consider they were produced on lesser hardware.
And probably even while boasting a few RayTracing features.
