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@DamirH

I honestly do not get the obsession with these BEYOND CUTTING EDGE graphic features, especially dynamic GI. 99.9999% of people will just play around with it a bit, maybe do one render and that’s it. The VAST majority of best-selling and most successful titles in the past decade weren’t on the cutting edge of graphics, so in general it’s a useless feature and the (probably) hundreds of thousands of dollars that would have to be invested in it are better spent anywhere else.

I disagree. With GI everything looks better, nearly instantly. Lighting is softer and more natural. That’s why there is static GI in the form of Lightmass.

Some types of games simply cannot afford to use static GI.

SVOGI is hardly beyond cutting edge, as the latest iterations of CryEngine shows it possible to optimize it to run even on consoles and it adds a lot even in open levels. Especially with a lot of foliage, which looks far better with GI.

It’s really not about the fact that the feature is to much strain on hardware, because it is not. It’s only matter of fact that Epic does not need it for Fortnite.