Unreal Engine 4.5 - Ray Traced Distance Field Shadows Showcased

Epic Games has also released two new videos, showcasing the newly supported real-time ray traced soft shadows.

[Saithraphim]

Got to give the team at Epic credit for bringing these amazing tools to the public

[DoomeDx]

And I have yet to see something that blows me away.

[AndrewLB]

And that's because these "next-gen" consoles don't have the power to blow you away.

People don't understand what kind of power it takes to run real-time ray tracing, and i'm not talking about that half-a$$ed pre-baked kind used in Ryse.

Because if you watched Nvidia's GTC keynote a couple of months ago they demonstrated real-time raytracing on 19 Iray VCAs. Each VCA has 8 GK110 GPUs (2880 cores), probably at around 900MHz. A bit over 23k GPU cores per VCA puts it at about 41.5Tflops per VCA, that's almost 800Tflops and look at the framerate:

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Not exactly smooth FPS is it? Single digit FPS, super fun. Oh, and I underestimated the power. In the video he says it's 1 petaflop. 1000 Tflops.

[denawayne]

I'm 40 and back in the old days graphics were one of the main reasons I bought a game. For me, going from Atari 2600 to the NES was awesome. Then NES to Genesis and SNES was even better. Then Playstation came out and while the graphics weren't great, being in 3D worlds was a new and cool experience. Then PS2 and Xbox not only wowed with graphics but new ways to play were introduced. Then PS3 and Xbox 360 came along and while the graphics were better, I found that fresh, new "ways" to play a game were kinda lacking. Too many sequels. So now with this new gen I've moved away from looking for graphics first in a game. I want games that play well and introduce new styles. Better AI. Co-op games where you think together (Portal) and not just shoot together. Some of these companies need stop wasting millions on making their games look pretty and concentrate on making them fun.

[Saithraphim]

Games take a while to develop and I'm sure a lot of the games coming out now got started before UE4 really made its debut. We are going to start seeing them a lot more next year I'm sure

[ATi_Elite]

I can't wait until Pc games start using Ray Traced Engines.

The power is getting closer and devs currently working on the tech are finding ways to optimize the engines to run on less power.

Good times and a huge graphical leap is a coming

[Hello_World]

Hopefully we start seeing some decent games using UE4 soon