Anyone else excited with 4.5 Update?

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is just simply not true. With the right assets, and good attention to material usage, and lighting, the game will look fine in outdoor scenes. Sure there are some issues with foliage density and such, but I believe these issues can be worked around. I have some fairly dense areas in my game with a lot of ground foliage, still with good frame rates. I built my own light weight instanced mesh that i use to render my foliage. Right now my biggest over anything else is translucent object sorting. But I have some ideas on how to resolve .

Just to give some figures. In the outdoor areas, I have on average about 2 million tri’s being rendered at any given time, at worst case I have 11 million (over 7000 draw calls). On average it runs above 60fps. Obviously when it hits 11 million things slow down.

I wouldn’t worry about so much, I’m working on a game that currently is about 10km x 10km in size. As I said above, with the right assets, lighting and materials, and maybe a little bit of C++ coding, you can make things look good and function well.

I agree in some respects the standard dynamic lighting w / skylights and shadows looks great, we have a 32KM Squared terrain. Thing is it’ll never look as good as a scene with Lightmass or a dynamic GI solution. But as UE4 is at the moment anyway, I’m unsure whether or not the dynamic GI is worth the performance trade off… Things are being cut fine as is.

It seems Epic are taking steps to make our lives easier, especially with the sheer amount of complaints regarding lightmaps. It just needs some performance tweaks, it would actually be better if you could switch lightmass off on a per “scene” basis as opposed to per project.