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Microsoft’s upcoming DirectX 12 to be able to render CGI level grahpics
- andywood 12y agoSeems there's nothing specific in the article about which which changes to DX are supposed to enable CGI quality, or how. Is it more polys/sec for smoother models and more geometry? Maybe a more efficient shared memory architecture for GI (I'm speculating. Maybe dreaming)? We're always being promised cinema quality in games, and while we're really not all that far off from it already, we're still quite a bit behind in lighting/rendering.
- ekianjo 12y agoAnd not just rendering. Animation is the biggest issue. You don't get Hollywood quality animation out of nothing. DX12 is going to provide some new features but calling it "as good as CGI" (i.e. movie-quality CGI) is just dreaming.
- melling 12y agoPerhaps it's just the increase in performance because DirectX is going to support multicore CPUs? The article only mentioned a doubling in performance. Isn't most of the work done on the GPU anyway?
- fsloth 12y agoCGI = Computer-generated Imagery Now that's what I call a tautology :) "Feature film quality" is probably what the author was after.
- Mithaldu 12y agoPlease change the link to the original article, or simply flag it to hell: http://www.littletinyfrogs.com/article/459838/DirectX_12_vs_DirectX_11 http://www.littletinyfrogs.com/article/459838/DirectX_12_vs_... Edit: Mind, even the original article is nonsensical as hell.