PS5 Specs to Be Revealed by Mark Cerny Tomorrow 9AM PST

the-pi-guy · Apr 02, 2020, 03:13 PM

PlayStation 5 uncovered: the Mark Cerny tech deep dive • Eurogamer.net

the-pi-guy · Apr 03, 2020, 04:37 PM

Dr. Pezus · Apr 03, 2020, 09:38 PM

Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Apr 03, 2020, 04:37 PM

Haha this is so fitting for Cerny

the-pi-guy · Apr 04, 2020, 11:05 PM

And that's what it's going to boil down to this generation: Production. You are not going to see the photoreal games for a while not because the hardware can't handle it, but because we don't know how to produce it at scale without charging you 200$ per box.
— Andrew Maximov (@_ArtIsAVerb) April 4, 2020

Legend · Apr 05, 2020, 02:03 AM

What does that person mean?

PBR is standard.

the-pi-guy · Apr 05, 2020, 02:12 AM

Appreciate the insightful questions. Very generally - yes. In game production - raw assets are the first step. But then anywhere form 5% to 95% of a team's time could be spent optimizing both individual content pieces and and all of them fitting together in memory at once.
— Andrew Maximov (@_ArtIsAVerb) April 4, 2020

Quote from: Legend on Apr 05, 2020, 02:03 AMWhat does that person mean?

PBR is standard.

Some of it sounds less like a rendering challenge and more about optimizing stuff.

Legend · Apr 05, 2020, 02:29 AM

Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Apr 05, 2020, 02:12 AM
Appreciate the insightful questions. Very generally - yes. In game production - raw assets are the first step. But then anywhere form 5% to 95% of a team's time could be spent optimizing both individual content pieces and and all of them fitting together in memory at once.
— Andrew Maximov (@_ArtIsAVerb) April 4, 2020
Some of it sounds less like a rendering challenge and more about optimizing stuff.

Yeah it's all about making a workflow. For example in Horizon they modeled low lod plants first and then designed the higher res models off that.

PS5 speeds up the workflow for the memory side of things a huge amount, but I'm not sure how that affects photorealism and lighting.

the-pi-guy · Apr 05, 2020, 03:56 AM

I don't know enough about it. Just sounded interesting.
The guy was supposedly a former technical art lead at Naughty Dog.

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On another note, to me it feels like Sony's focus with PS5 was:
1.) Make it BC.
2.) Ensure there's no overheating
3.) Make it powerful.

Pretty much in that order.