Svogi

[DamirH]

@Maximum-Dev

You can’t really say dynamic GI isn’t of much importance. People are using static GI because they don’t have access to a fast/good looking dynamic GI. Who would like to wait half day for baking a scene if they could just use dynamic GI? (that could also be tweaked for viz quality renders like in cryengine). And lightmass is really not a solution for outdoor/open world games as it takes 65 million years to bake/iterate/bake. Dynamic GI makes it all look better, let’s you iterate and see the results instantly, tremendously cuts down production time and doesn’t have the limits of static GI. It’s only drawback is, Fortnite and Paragon didn’t need it and that’s why Epic is letting LPVs die as they did with Heightfield GI and DFGI. GDC showfloor was all they cared about, sadly.

I can say that it’s not of much importance because no game ever will have its make-or-break point on dynamic GI. Breath of the Wild has for all intents and purposes just a skylight and a directional light, which anyone can use for open-world games and it sold millions. Would it have sold more if it had SVOGI instead of its barebone setup (Assuming hypothetically that Switch could pull it off in terms of performance)? I honestly doubt it. As far as any real-life game production is concerned, dynamic GI is a nice thing to have that can be used as a boasting asset but to say that any game suffers greatly for the lack of it is I believe ignorant at best.