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Next-Gen 3D Rendering Technology: Voxel Ray Casting

After TomsHardware's coverage of ray tracing a little while back, they continue their overview of the rendering techniques that could replace, or at the very least, complement triangle rasterization as we know it today.

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Nihilism5316d ago (Edited 5316d ago )

John Carmack is a sexy beast........now hurry up and make doom 4 you silly rabbit, crysis needs some competition, dx11 doom 4 *drools*

TheIneffableBob5316d ago

id is all about OpenGL, not D3D. :)

Nihilism5316d ago (Edited 5316d ago )

correction: ID WAS all about OpenGL, unfortunately/fortunately, d3d has taken over and more emphasis is being put on it, but it's technology, may the best tech win, and d3d has surpassed openGL by alot, i'll take whatever works and whatever looks best.

@meetajhu

rage looks average, john himself said that doom4 would be much more advanced, rage will look good but it won't blow everyone away graphically like crysis did

aGameDeveloper5316d ago

Right. Xbox 360 does not support OpenGL, while PS3 (and Linux and Mac OS) do not support DirectX. So multi-platform developers must use both and decide which of the two to use for PC.

meetajhu5316d ago

No need Doom 4 to compete. Rage is enought. Crysis is all about the awesome textures and Rage Mega Texture will crush Crysis.

Halflife 1(goldsource engine, heavly modified Quake 1 engine)
Halflife 2(again modified Goldsrc engine and some copy from Unreal engines)
Cryengine(Another Heavy modification of Quake 3 engine)
Cryengine2("")
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Infinity Ward engine(Quake 3 engine modified adding HDR lighting effects and dynamic shadows)

So all company should kneel before John Carmack for his awesome work! Rage will demolish!

chak_5316d ago

yup, I'm so waiting for rage. It looks really neat.
Just hope there won't be too much racing, don't like that much

TheIneffableBob5316d ago

Are you sure CryENGINE is a Quake 3 derivative?

I don't see it on here.
http://upload.wikimedia.org...

FantasyStar5316d ago (Edited 5316d ago )

From what I'm understanding, Voxels literally represents the x,y,z axis in full volumetric space. However the drawback was storage space because something as simple as a single 1024 texture can take up to 4GB of RAM. They solved this by introducing "voxel octee", which by the artist can mesh and simplify incoming blocks on the 2D plane by distance and overall allow full control over the pixels drawn, which means that stuff like aliasing is a thing of the past with voxels.

However the problem is that even though voxel octee (or Voxel Ray Casting, (not tracing)) is expensive because that's alot of crunching power and man power needed to create an algorithm that can suit the artist's vision. (regardless of help from DX11's Tessellation) That and the ability to stream that many voxels while creating effective data structures that won't clog up the memory access. (again, the manpower thing).

The future is uncertain. Someone correct me if I miss something, or ****ed up somewhere.

meetajhu5316d ago

This is going to come in Rage and you will watch it. No need of AA anymore!

kaveti66165316d ago

WHERE IS KAKKOI to EXPLAIN ALL of THIS to ME!!!

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V Rising Won't Have PC-PS5 Crossplay; 'Never Say Never' to Other Consoles

Stunlock confirmed to Wccftech PC-PS5 crossplay for V Rising is 'pretty unlikely'. They also commented on potential ports to other consoles.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows Cover Art Leak Confirms Dual Protagonists

The cover art for Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Shadows has been leaked online, and it confirms that the game will feature dual protagonists.

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banger884h ago

The samurai dude is black....because of course he is. Because that makes total f***ing sense. I honestly wouldn't expect anything less from Ubisoft.

RaidenBlack4h ago

Supposedly inspired by the real life black samurai, Yasuke.

NovusTerminus2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

Yasuke, he was a samurai who served under Nobunaga and was in fact black. However that is where his foot note in history begins and ends as he seemingly did nothing of note throughout his service.

There are far better general's they could have focused on who had major moments in history... But nope.

EDIT: I do want to add though, that since there is nothing of note from him in history, it does open up what you can do from a fictional writing stand point.

SimpleSlave10m ago

You are such a dumb ass racist, I honestly wouldn't expect anything less from you either.

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Greatest DLCs In Gaming That Walk The Hall Of Fame

Gaming has given birth to some of the best DLCs ever made that enhance the base game significantly. Here are a few top recommendations.