Realtime Dynamic GI + Reflections + AO + Emissive plugin - AHR

[RyanTorant]

hey is this dead now? it looked really good so far? I was liking where it was going...

It's on indefinite hold. I may pick it up later, but I'm working in another project, that I need to keep under wraps for a while longer. I'm still here to answer questions, but I'm not working on ahr. It's been like this for a while. dragonCASTjosh was working on it, but we haven't talked in a while, don't know if he kept it up.

[RyanTorant]

Well, some big and final news here.
I got a totally unexpected offer from an archviz company to finish AHR for them, commercially, and I took it. I wasn't expecting to work again on AHR, but well, life happens
That means that I won't be updating my AHR repo again.

I hope to be able to post some screens eventually, but it probably won't be on this post.

It's truly been a ride. It seems like I've been here forever, that first post seems so far away. Thanks to everyone that took interest on this over the years.
Until the next one people.

Ryan over and out.

[Themanwithideas]

So do we get access to it when you're done? Or are they going to sell it? I can't wait to see what you do!

[RyanTorant]

So do we get access to it when you're done? Or are they going to sell it? I can't wait to see what you do!

I'm sorry, but no. I'll be developing it exclusively for them to use on a commercial software they are developing.
I hope you people understand.

[Themanwithideas]

Okay yeah I get it. Just remember I want to see some screens.

[RyanTorant]

Okay yeah I get it. Just remember I want to see some screens.

Oh, that I sure will

[Meatl0ckr]

Well, some big and final news here.
I got a totally unexpected offer from an archviz company to finish AHR for them, commercially, and I took it. I wasn't expecting to work again on AHR, but well, life happens
That means that I won't be updating my AHR repo again.

I hope to be able to post some screens eventually, but it probably won't be on this post.

It's truly been a ride. It seems like I've been here forever, that first post seems so far away. Thanks to everyone that took interest on this over the years.
Until the next one people.

Ryan over and out.

Will we be able to create a fork of the current, public AHR solution?
Or a pull request to integrate it into the base engine?

[RyanTorant]

Will we be able to create a fork of the current, public AHR solution?
Or a pull request to integrate it into the base engine?

Forking the public repo should be ok, but it won't go into the main engine code.
Besides, it never was quite ready for that.

[Blue man]

Forking the public repo should be ok, but it won't go into the main engine code.
Besides, it never was quite ready for that.

Hey, [MENTION=9166]RyanTorant[/MENTION] can someone still take your code and improve it. Been following this thread since it had maybe 20 replies, I'm glad you found use for AHR

[RyanTorant]

Hey, [MENTION=9166]RyanTorant[/MENTION] can someone still take your code and improve it. Been following this thread since it had maybe 20 replies, I'm glad you found use for AHR

Hey blue man, sorry for the delay. The old repo it's gonna stay there so I guess that's ok. Don't think anyone will pick it up though, it's kinda of a mess, but you never know . Anyway, yeah, if someone does pick it up, he/she should just send me an email to let me know. Will update the repo to explain that.

[6r0m]

somebody can give solution for dynamic light (good look indoor and outdoor) from the box?

[NeWincpp]

somebody can give solution for dynamic light (good look indoor and outdoor) from the box?

I had a lot of hope in this solution too... but from what I've tried LPV are the way to go if you want fully dynamic GI but they tend to crash in packaged game and it doesn't work with opengl/metal/vulkan (only gnm and dx11). https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest...mes/index.html .
I hope Epic will not stay on lightmass stuff, this semi static solution this is very slow in term of production (the building take too much time and have too much failure cases) and bring to much limitation in term of interactivity IMO. =/

[prateekstp]

Thats something i don't understand, UE4 is really a great engine but it seems that it is almost the last engine on this planet without fully dynamic lighting, thats really sad.
www.guideadda.com

[SilentAndAsleep]

Thats something i don't understand, UE4 is really a great engine but it seems that it is almost the last engine on this planet without fully dynamic lighting, thats really sad.
www.guideadda.com

4.23 has real time GI now: SSGI. It's still an experimental feature though (performance hog, noisy) but it should be fully ready in 4.24 if I'm not mistaken. Try it, it's pretty good! It's main drawback is that light propagation disappears when the camera isn't framing the area (same thing with SSAO. Because well, it's called Screen Space for a reason hehe). In most cases it's not a deal breaker, but let's say that you're facing an emissive object and you rotate the camera to see the light propagate on your character's SSS skin, well expect to be disappointed because it won't happen. Since you're not facing the emissive object the light propagation will disappear.

Still, SSGI is a thousand times better than nothing, and looks great on outdoors. I'll still use it along the light probes plugin, it's a great combo. No need for baking scenes anymore, yay!