[Finishing Touches]

11 hours ago, Dreikblack said:

So it will be NVIDIA RTX that games using nowadays?

Starfield just released without RTX because they realize it's just a scam by nvidia to sell you useless expensive hardware.

[Editor Development Continues]

Well, I have 3GB of VRAM so 4 or 9 GB can only fit if RAM is used alongside. I'm pretty sure that system works for both. They call it "GPU memory" and to my layman understanding it's not only VRAM. Either way, the total size of textures in memory profiler becomes exactly what I type in the system. That project only runs due to that system.

[Editor Development Continues]

Saving up RAM. It clears 5GB for me in Unity. I have 9 GB of textures in a scene and with a checkbox tick I get just 4 GB, no visual impact.

[Editor Development Continues]

Unrelated, but do you plan to add mip maps streaming from disk depending on distance?

[AI-Generated Game Textures and Concept Art]

This is all extremely entertaining and all but I've not yet seen a single image actually useful for any production of anything to be hones.

[Ultra Engine Client App]

I hope you don't ask for credit card inside the client. I don't trust any software besides Firefox.

[Finalizing Terrain]

Since you have large shaders, do you have multi compiled shader variants like Unity does it?

[Smart Tessellation]

Can tessellation actually replace regular high poly geometry? Because I remember trying and realizing that basic displacement in Blender gives far better results than a tessellation shader with the same displacement map.

Tessellated stone has lighting like it's a flat plane even though there's crazy amount of geometry. And displacement in Blender with exactly the same height map and distance actually looks good. Both are based on the same flat mesh. That shader even had recalculation of displaced Normals and Tangents.

[Finalizing Shaders and Real-time Global Illumination Progress]

So the problem is not just moving objects affecting GI but even moving objects receiving GI from static objects?

[Ultra Engine Benchmarks Revealed - 10x Faster than Unity, Leadwerks]

I'm not surprised. Their demos run at 24 FPS on PS5 🙃

[Ultra Engine Benchmarks Revealed - 10x Faster than Unity, Leadwerks]

Well, Unity or Leadwerks don't even have realtime GI systems so it's hard to compare.

[GPU Voxel Downsampling with Compute Shaders]

Ah, get it now, thanks!

[GPU Voxel Downsampling with Compute Shaders]

Do I understand that correctly? Reflected visuals are geometry that got voxelized and then polygonized back?

[Common Bottlenecks]

21 hours ago, Yue said:

 This is the same scene, only I have removed the character collider from all these elements and the performance goes up a bit more.

If character controller boosted your FPS 2 times, then you probably have a CPU, not GPU bottleneck. Check your task manager.

Also, GTX 1050 is weak, but it is the second most popular GPU on Steam, so you should definitely optimize for it.

[GPU Voxelization]

Do you mean you voxelize every frame? I thought it's something that gets baked once and them voxel models follow regular models.

[Cyclone Is Coming Soon to Steam!]

There are no viable options other than Steam

[Sparse Voxel Octree Raycasting]

Realistic hall of mirrors would need around 10 bounces, so definitely not a good idea?

[Sparse Voxel Octrees]

Have you tested shadows with fast moving objects like cars or thin walls?

[Ultra Engine Benchmarks Revealed - 10x Faster than Unity, Leadwerks]

7 hours ago, Marcousik said:

Is there a little workaround for LE 4.6 ^^ ?

Less objects, less materials, less shaders is generally how you solve this. Just merge everything into one mesh.

[Ultra Engine Benchmarks Revealed - 10x Faster than Unity, Leadwerks]

I actually always had 100% GPU with Leadwerks.

[Ultra Engine Benchmarks Revealed - 10x Faster than Unity, Leadwerks]

You probably have low FPS because of Leadwerk's poor GPU performance which these tests honestly don't tell us much about.

[Ultra Engine Benchmarks Revealed - 10x Faster than Unity, Leadwerks]

That's crazy numbers Josh! Amazing job. Is this lighting test with realtime shadows also?

I also wonder about fragment shaders performance with high overdraw or just high number of PBR models.

[Skybox Reflections]

I wonder, is it basically image based lighting or is it a separate thing?

[Final Thoughts on Ultra App Kit]

8 hours ago, Josh said:

You can't use it to make an application creation library or design program

Can you make Photoshop?

[Last Call for API Modifications]

I love when everything is named like GetValue / SetValue. Clean and logical.