But CDPR stated that the current renderer cannot produce image based lighting, the dynamic lighting with the soft shadows, as the other renderer did.
i dont know, maybe this week, maybe not, am finding new stuff while trying to fix other stuff
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The patience is killing me, I've been reloading all nexus,youtube,this and reddit for hopes of your work/mod. Will there be a way to donate?
This is like the night before Christmas, but ten thousand times worse waiting for dat one present.
Guys, have some patience, this is no simple task. Hundreds and thousands lines need to be closely examined without proper tools. I did not think it can be done.
Yes, the 35 minute gameplay is on the old but actually newer renderer than the one we have now. So is the entirety of the SOD trailer. You haven't noticed ?
i dont think that they used IBL in the 35mn demo ( maybe the older trailers ), its the same rendering engine just set up in a different way, with very different colorgrading and more detailed assets, but thats just my opinion , i might be completely wrong
yes, you're correct. it's the same rendering version set in a different way, nothing more, and your experiments since the launch of TW3 prooves it.
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It's not a matter of opinion, Marcin Iwinski admitted it in the recent eurogamer article. But even if he hadn't, the differences in the lighting are obvious. The lighting in the 35min gameplay is the same as in the VGX(0:56) and SOD(1:18) trailer when the camera passes over Novigrad.
The rendering engine was changed after E3 and this because, as they stated, it couldn't handle the united pieces of the open world. No need to guess who couldn't handle it.. *cough* *cough*
Anyways you can always ask them to find that I speak the truth.
I believe the rendering engine was changed after VGX, haven't read anything about it being changed after the 35 minute demo/Sword of Destiny trailer.
If you go by that quote then it's clear they have completely evaded the issue of why the game looks worse than the 2014 gameplay video which as I take it was captured on that "rendering system that looked nicer across the board".
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You know, all that speculations could be put to rest if only CDPR unlocked those other environmental variables. Then we'd see what could really be done with the current renderer. I mean look at the work essenthy is doing. He's just one guy and already he's managing to bring back the 2014 look of the game even with all this limitations in place. Imagine what he (And potentially other modders) could do if those other files were unlocked.
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Agree 100% with you there.
But will play a bit of a Devil's advocate on this one - Mad Max is not a great comparison about the lack of a graphical downgrade because there's nothing to downgrade really, there are no beautiful or different looking vistas, no foliage etc. When I first saw the 4 minute trailer it didn't wow me like the Witcher did.
Basically the game looks like a last gen game with Batman dumb clickfest combat thrown in (the players controller has been uber noisy when he was fighting). I've watched a one hour gameplay video of it and it did nothing to make me want to buy it.
P.S. Folks, don't hurry @essenthy, he's already doing everything he can with the limited modkit but I don't think particle effects and some detailed textures (like tiled roofs in Novigrad) can be restored with it - I hope I'm wrong though.
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