Landscape system, related features and issues

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@Maximum-Dev

I’d like to draw a red line between feature requests that noticeably affect the business and other feature requests that don’t.
For example you can be cool with not having dynamic GI. (Despite dynamic GI being there in almost every other engine) you can be cool with not having it because they might not be in a situation to do it and it’s understandable because it’s a lot of work.

Then there are other tiny little features such as decal displacement, or spline decals for making -roads- and I don’t think there’s any justifiable reason in the universe for not having it. Hmmmm I believe working on these tiny little -usable- features would have even made people a lot happier than seeing an RTX feature which would probably cost like $6000 worth of GPUs to run on a single machine. A feature that even if you manage to run, your customers can’t which renders it useless for “gaming” because no one wants to spend 6000 dollars for running some fancy feature of a 60 dollars game.

Yeah I agree, GDC announcements were basically targeting film and media projects (RTX), I think they want to diversify which is good but not the best for game development focus… (spline decals and displacement decals yes please)

I doubt RTX will be viable for games as quickly as everyone wants to think, remember VXGI has been around for a long time and is still not widely regarded as product ready. On that note VXGI 2.0 was announced with improvements that were very exciting, but with the focus on RTX and epic doing unreal studio etc it seemed like it got less excitement than it should.

even without GI and other lighting features it would be nice to have the existing lighting for outdoors cleaned up a bit, it seems needlessly complicated to create a realistic lighting scenario!