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Saying that "video games cause violence" is like blaming Hotwheels for car crashes.

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The only youtuber i'm watching currently. Don't matter if it's a 20 minutes video or if it's 3 hours long. Love your content. Keep up 👍

We put way too much effort into pushing the envelope for better graphics when we should be pushing the limits of innovative game mechanics and making sure our games are fun.

That document on GTA V's graphics rendering is a freaking godsend to understand modern 3D graphics, everyone interested in graphics, game development, modding and whatnot, should absolutelly read it.

YES 4/6 LET'S GO, BEEN HERE SINCE 1/6

I searched online but couldnt find the answer about why Global Illumination was removed from Grand Theft Auto V . Realtime GI was clearly evident in the trailers .

I remember thinking “games will never look more realistic than this” at MGS4.

sweet a new hour long video. thanks man

If you got to grow up in the 90's, It really did feel like the future of gaming was going to be awesome. It wasn't about graphics. It was physics effects, art styles, a range of gameplay modes, gameplay mechanics, damage effects, environmental interaction, engaging AI to play against in single player mode, CPU bots in offline modes, just good AI in games campaigns. Current video games focus too much on graphical nitpicking. It seems they forgot how much players enjoyed physics effects & other aspects that make games fun. Quirky graphics can work, if a creative art style is used. Add engaging CPU AI, gameplay modes, the list goes on.. idk what happened? Also: {We have seen that even if companies delay games, it isn't improving the quality of games being released. Which is a sign there is a MUCH DEEPER issue going on with modern games. No excuses, devs used to make great games with much less and they would have given anything to have certain capabilities to utilize that are available today. It just takes actual passion, focus & talent to make great games. Sidenote: It's so crazy how many people are still supporting super mega rich companies putting out unacceptable products.. i don't understand certain people. I don't understand how certain companies can be messing up so badly. It's frustrating that other passionate people are not allowed to make a version of a type of game that we used to have but no longer get anymore.. Yet these huge companies get full control over if an unused game IP gets made & they do everything they can so no other versions of a game idea will ever come out. Even if there's a huge fan base around certain ideas and there's a ton of passionate devs out there dying to make a version of a certain video game idea.. that frustrates me beyond belief}

Even the most realistic looking game looks realistic because of the added camera effect, not because of advenced graphics. Get any photo realistic video, turn down the resoultion to 240p and suddenly it looks more real than in 8K.

I think the political arguments of videogames causing violence is starting to die down now. The 50 year old politician of today was probably playing videogames when he was young and knows there is no link.

The ad transition was filthy 💀

Can't believe my man didn't bring up the water puddles in Arma Reforger when he was talking about the weather stuff, that stuff legitimately blew my mind. especially when it takes longer for the water to dry up if it's not being exposed directly to the sun.

The comment at 24:50 summarizes the internet's dark side quite accurately hahaha

That Valdez interrogation never gets old.

This series is a gem. I’ve been waiting eagerly for the next video, and here it is! 😆

Don’t stop with these videos, Ocean because I’m really enjoying them.

A new age of gaming. I am SO fucking ready!

Developers should now focus on deliver high definition graphics along with descent performance. Thanks for the amazing video.

Top lets gooooo!!! Been waiting what feels ages for this video thought you ended the series

I'm studying computer graphics and noticed a few inaccuracies, most are nitpicks but some are completely incorrect: - 13:30 Global Illumination is not a technique, it's a phenomenon, basically just the fact that light bounces = does not terminate after the first hit like direct lighting. Lumen or RTXGI are techniques for calculating GI for example. - 15:52 Lumen does not generate "inverted cubemaps". I'm not sure what that would even mean. It uses cards placed on the surfaces of meshes to cache lighting, aside from all the other stuff. - 16:16 Lumen does not simulate the type of soft shadows you show. Those are most likely done using Virtual Shadow Maps, another system in UE5. - 17:20 Raytracing does not have to shoot rays for each pixel. A more general description of raytracing is shooting rays into a scene that can be used for shadows, reflections, global illumination and more. - 17:32 We can already have cars or other objects reflect the scene realtime, just look at any modern racing game or Half Life 2 water. It's moreso that the old techniques (planar reflections, realtime cubemaps) are very limited and raytracing is a more universal solution. - 17:55 I'm not sure what you were trying to say here. Screenspace reflections reflect dynamic objects, cubemaps can as well if rendered realtime, and both can be combined, so that cubemaps are only used in places where screenspace reflections fail. - 19:00 It's pronounced _id_ (short), not ID. - 19:31 Virtual texturing does not blend textures automatically. That is done with a special rendertexture and material setup inside UE5. But I get the confusion, as this usecase is mostly what pops up when googling for virtual textures. - 19:52 As you correctly said, megatextures have problems and are no longer used. Even id tech moved away from them. - 32:25 The red when damaged is not a particle effect but a simple image overlay. - 32:52 The smoke in Teardown is not voxel based. It is still a regular particle system, and if I remember correctly it indeed still is 2D images. Iit is driven by a simulation instead of just spawning for effect, which leads it to acting realistically. - 33:45 There is nothing preventing 2D particles from being simulated and reacting to the wind as you describe. Simulation and rendering of particles are 2 entirely different things. - 34:40 I believe the hall of mirrors is the result of the game not rendering anything in that spot, leading to the last image that was rendered there staying. So Halo 3 showing the other person's weapon is the same phenomena. - 42:02 He's turning displacement maps into voxels, not the other way around. It's also not made at all for destruction, it's a way to visually enhance flat surfaces with displacement textures. Teardown is a much better example of a true voxel environment. - 44:10 Cubemaps are not blind to dynamic objects. Cubemaps are just a way of storing a 360° from a point in the world. They can show anything including dynamic objects as many racing games do. The choice to include or exclude dynamic objects is entirely up to the developer. - 44:52 The G buffer contains attributes of *fragments*, not vertices, as it stores pixels and not vertex data. For example vertices don't have Albedo, that is retrieved for each fragment by reading from a texture. - 45:36 The normal buffer stores the direction a surface points, the inclusion of surface details like scratches is a side effect of using _normal maps_ on the objects in the scene. It determines the fraction of light that will hit a surface from each light. Normal maps do not cause any parallax, only affect the shading. - 46:50 The velocity buffer does not only store how fast something moves, but also in which direction, using a vector. - 47:18 The G buffer only contains information for shading of individual surfaces. Things like shadows have to be done separately and are not in the same pass. - 47:45 Forward rendering does not have to iterate through each light, techniques like Tiled Forward rendering improve this. - 48:26 The guns are not "user interface", they are just rendered in a separate pass and ignore the depth values from the rest of the scene. - 48:45 Deferred rendering generally is the technique that does many more passes than forward rendering. The main advantage is in the fact that shading is done only on the actual pixels that will be visible, minimizing wasted work. - 50:53 The albedo texture does not have to look flat and exclude bright or dark spots. It is just a texture representing the actual color of a surface without any lighting applied. - 51:50 Displacement or height maps are texture representing the height of each point on the surface. They can be used for Parallax Occlusion Mapping or displacement mapping, both of which attempt to simulate the 3D shape of a surface. POM does it by smartly offseting the UV coordinates, displacement mapping actually changes the geometry. - 52:25 Roughness literally describes how sharp or matte the reflection should be.

Great video man, thanks! Very interesting. Must have been quite some work!!

An absolute blast of a video... loved it 🔥🔥

insanely good video, cant beleive it doesnt have more views. Great work

Let’s goooo my suggestion about mirrors edge made it in the video. Looks sick, I’m definitely gonna watch the whole thing later. Love your videos man!

My favourite channel for video essay content ❤

First ~4mins hooked me. Subbed.

Hmm, interesting detail I didn't know about, if Nanite is capable of depicting infinite polygons, that means those 3D models are not tipically modeled objects, but maybe something like 3D vectorized objects, more similar to how it's made in CAD software than in more artistic oriented 3D modeling tools.

The ending is mad banger 🔥

Great video bro

1h let's go, worth more than some movies

Finally this vid has came!

I had a horrible day, but this High Quality video should at least make it better thx Dark Space

This video was brilliant. Are you going to release a definitive edition of it?

0:37 the Nostalgia that hit me from sly raccoon is insane.

you made my evening 👌

the final bit from 1:05:00 on is really nutty, loved every minute of this video

Fun fact 44:48 programs used for montage in games like CSGO and COD used these g-buffer layers in order to freely edit stuff separately, like creating their own depht of field or adding authentic 3D text

Ohhhh, your videos are my favorite 😁

Bashing of defenetive edition will never tire me.

Driveclub was basically the Unrecord of racing games but with the tech from 2014, running on a console with the power of a PC even older.

Dang, this vid was great.

Was surprised to not see a single wrestling game. For a while, graphical updates were all we had. Faces, hair, entrances, crowds: worthy of a deep dive review like this.

13:02 it looks like quake, i loved playing it

11:12 The best water I've seen is still AC Black Flag, even on the 360 version.

A literal documentary

Dark space probably most interesting guy on yt! 🎉

43 Seconds Ago!! Let's Gooo!

1:05:00 that moment I heard the Monstercat song gave me chills!!! So cool!! (And awesome video essay/reflection!) Edit: Rogue - This is it

These videos are so addictive! Hoping you blow up soon because these deserve way more views!

Im surprised not seeing footage of Dbz kakarot especially in the water section

I genuinely surprised you didn't mention the new Captain America game, Ocean. That game has already gotten so much praise despite still being in development because Steve and Azzuri look so real. One of the leads is a former Naughty Dog worker.

holy shit. underrated

A question for Dark Space: I did not watch the whole video, but I have subscribed 😊. Maybe can You review a game called Far Cry 6?

Great video and great explanations!

Ma man has some stuff with the definitive edition 😂

Absurdly detailed insight, you're great!! ❤

Issue with realistic graphics is that there is a limit Soon games will be so realistic you cant go up And all games will end the same This is why style is important

That NBA voice acting cannot be real!

Dude, that was a truly amazing and well made video. Bravo.

optimization, depth, object density, and personally most importantly, more physics based simulations for as many things as possible. I don't believe there is anything at this point more impactful for a game's realism or just level of interactivity than well executed, expansive physics simulations for destructible environments, gory wounds, teardown level particle simulation, clothes that feel like clothes and not just paint on a character's body. we have the technology and the software and hardware to pull off well optimized physics simulations, there have been examples of it for decades, and it's only becoming more and more true as time goes on.

54:49 I think there's a mistake left in there, I thought it was another video that suddenly played

I still remember seeing one of your first videos about GTA online. Glad to see how far you’ve come! Keep it up!

I can't believe it took an hour for a video about graphics in games to show footage of Detroit: Become Human and Uncharted 4

Wow, I can not imagine how much effort is going into these videos. This one is especially informative!

Lifelike graphics in gaming mean lifetime upgrades to my pc

the jokes in this video had me dying XD

20:06 Best Joke ever made

6 mins ago is crazy

I was never that early

21:55 pain

Where are the others parts?

This guy is so professional until suddenly he says something like this XD 37:02

Tomb Raider references

i loved this video it felt weird since im playing a video game while watching this while hearing how a game makes its PFS super meta

3:02 Very normal

This was a great episode! Anything from Unreal Engine's Lumens and Nanite to Metahuman and Megatextures is impressive stuff, and the Bodycam simulation effects. It's also funny that you keep raking on the GTA Definitive Edition trilogy lmao. Though personally, I also find that visuals often blend together these days. Everything trying to be realistic, also means everything is going to eventually look the same. That's why I am so fond of the coming indie games simulating the old Nintendo64 and PlayStation 1 graphics. Like Samurai Unicorn, Deepstate, Old School Rally and Nightmare Operator, etc.

I can't stand people who hate on graphics and say braindead things like they don't matter and that gameplay and story matters instead. It's like saying the steering wheel doesn't matter on a car, but tires do, they aren't opposite things, they go together. There are games like Uncharted 4 and RDR2 that have both great stories and amazing graphics, so one doesn't exclude the other and while there are games where graphics don't matter like stylized or retro games, there are also games where graphics are crucial for immersion like with driving and flight simulators. There are of course games where graphics are great, but story or gameplay is bad, but there are also a lot of games that do have a good gameplay, but where graphics are bad and no one calls out those games.

Honey new Dark Space video essay dropped

Honesty, if a very very realistic game allows you to mutilate a body and it has very realistic gore, that'd be on the same level as getting people into gore as being exposed to it on the internet. That you can definitely make a case for making people wanna mutilate people in real life

Bro mamaged to make a sponsor awesome with these textures. Ive gotten this ad 8,000 times and this time i didnt skip. May purchase

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The part where you mentioned no man's sky day/night cycle if the planet was rotating then wouldn't the other planets be moving in the sky as well? 🤔

uhhh baby gonna watch this 2nite

Over an hour of Dark Space?? Couldn't have felt more blessed today. Sign me up!

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Just some corrections: Not sure where you got the 500k poly count value for Gran Turismo 7. If anything that's a minimum value, because since Gran Turismo Sport almost all car models have exterior tessellation models (of which this video also gets wrong) and reuses regular PS3 interiors if the model was previously in GT6. With tessellation meshes can basically get multiplied as one square polygon is smoothed to become 4 (smoothing a triangle is a huge no no) and continuously more until the game engine deems is enough while maintaining its performance target. For reference, I believe the devs claimed the Jaguar VGT model was about 7 million polygons. For any other game, that'd be insanely too many polygons to render, but if we are talking about GT7's photo mode or just in the garage screen with 1 single car then the game isn't demanding much from the hardware and can smooth the meshes more. This tech wasn't even new to GT Sport because it was introduced in Gran turismo 6. So a small amount of new cars in that game on the PS3 were also way over the 500k value you mentioned (non tessellated premium cars were usually around 300k). There's also a lot of reused PS3 assets in Sport and 7 nobody seems to mention and is falsely advertised as being 'PS4/5 super premium quality' when a lot of car interiors and even some low resolution textures are straight from the PS3 games. Honestly, Gran Turismo assets after GT6 are a nightmare to explain because there’s more technology behind them that’s too much for some random comment. What you actually described was parallax textures because that is the technology that gets 3D data from textures and renders polygons at certain angles to not break the illusion that the meshes are more detailed than they actually are.

11:17 knight. Not city

Make a GTA 6 Map update!! With the new panhandle!

Software is advancing so much faster than hardware that now software is diverging to advancing its effectiveness to ease the load so hardware can run it

Great Video. I enjoyed the 1 hour watch. Thank you for your effort. This is high quality content.

Based

Dark Space do you want to know something?

Only when real life graphics will be achieved will classic, ,,bad" or old graphics come back, along with goos story ,lore or mechanics

11:15 *Arkham Knight

Bro I never registered that there’s no kid npcs in grand auto theft

I allways wanted a pc for battfield, but im too poor

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