Lumberyard Engine

[katoun9]

@Ben85;474901

Untrue. I’m sounding like a broken record at this point, but where is Unreal Engine’s real time global illumination solution (once again, excluding Nvidia VXGI)? CryEngine has had this for a long time (in the form of LPV and now SVOGI/SVOTI). From my understanding, Epic basically abandoned the implementation due to performance considerations. Fair enough. However, within the next 6 months, 14nm video cards (after being stuck on the 28nm manufacturing process for over 4 years) are going to hit the market, and it’s going to result in massive performance increases which will make real time global illumination solutions viable. However, it’s not even on Epic’s roadmap (other than being filed as a “R&D” task). The light-map creation process for baked lighting is so tedious (with the choice between a slow workflow with good results, or a fast workflow with average results), that if nothing else, a real time global illumination solution would be welcomed to speed up the content creation pipeline.

Well it’s nice and dandy that the CryTek guys are very good graphics programmers. Maybe the Epic guys are not that much, or maybe they are, but hey sure did prove us with UE4 they are very good Game Engine programmers (including Tools and Pipeline). In terms of complexity, very roughly both of them have the same complexity in their source code. I would argue that UE4 has the visual material editor and that add extra.
In the end which one offers you the best pipeline and user friendly workflow, stability, the features you need and maybe some you need later, modern graphics for Consoles/Desktop or super speed on mobile if you target that ?