Is Voxel Cone Tracing gone?

anonymous_user_2e70cb911 · March 26, 2014, 2:08pm

I read in an article this:

“First, for all of us who originally fell in love with Unreal 4 because of the real-time Global Illumination…its gone! I.e, the current version of Unreal 4 has scrapped real-time GI.”

So is it true?! I think it is not true, the article is lying.
But I want to be sure, that UE4 has SVOGI.

Here is the article again:
http://raedentertainment.com/unity-unreal-cryengine/

maikklein · March 26, 2014, 2:54pm

As far as I know UE4 now uses Enlighten which doesn’t use voxel cone tracing. I think that there is no real-time GI at the moment, at least I couldn’t find a setting for it.

But I think that there was screen space “global” illumination as a post processing effect.

anonymous_user_2e70cb911 · March 26, 2014, 3:14pm

Maybe directional occlusion.

Marcos_Tinen · April 2, 2014, 4:28pm

But, If we have full code access. I think we can develop the voxel cone tracing again.

anonymous_user_1d769e01 · April 2, 2014, 4:42pm

UE4 doesn’t use Enlighten.

TheAgent · April 2, 2014, 5:02pm

UE4 has lightpropagation volumes as seen somewhere in the forums. They are still Work in Progress and are prone to severe leaking issues.

If i remember right they use Beast for LightMass.

anonymous_user_b9532c9a · November 14, 2014, 8:44pm

I am marking this as answered for tracking purposes.

MiKom · February 3, 2017, 2:06pm

No, they don’t. Lightmass is a fully in-house solution.