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Sheesh. How many engineer-hours have gone into Unreal?
A hell of a lot, the engine itself was in development for around three years IIRC
Also why commercial game developers usually don't whine about 3D APIs like FOSS indie devs do.
Adding support for yet another graphics backend is a trivial task, compared to the overall feature set of a game engine.
So all of this processing happens for one frame? And this is going on at 60 Hz?
Yes, and more. You’ve also got a rigid body (physics) simulation, ai/pathfinding, animation, networking, audio and gameplay logic all to run. If you’re making an open world game, you also need to have streaming code to load and unload parts of the game on the fly. It doesn’t always happen at 60hz (which is 16ms total processing time for all the above plus what’s in the post). Some games run at 30hz(33ms), some run un…
So all of this processing happens for one frame? And this is going on at 60 Hz?
It's genuinely hard to do this kind of code so you'd think they take care not to scare away the few people who can do it.
I recall at one point Goldmans was bragging to my team about how they'd hired a game dev to do their click-to-trade currency UI. Seemed like the guy found an easier job for more pay.
So all of this processing happens for one frame? And this is going on at 60 Hz?
I'm completely fascinated that games can perform massive amounts of math and render 120 frames per second, while some business applications fail to do completely basic data manipulation in an reasonable time frame.
Business apps have it a lot easier - the users are more forgiving, I guess either because they don't have a choice in the matter or any better options.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, and more. You’ve also got a rigid body (physics) simulation, ai/pathfinding, animation, networking, audio and gameplay logic all to run. If you’re making an open world game, you also need to have streaming code to load and unload parts of the game on the fly. It doesn’t always happen at 60hz (which is 16ms total processing time for all the above plus what’s in the post). Some games run at 30hz(33ms), some run un…
The situation has changed a little bit recently with the introduction of adaptive synchronization monitor standards(GSync and Freesync). On PC this means that framerates above some minimum target can drift without experiencing tearing or missed deadlines.
So all of this processing happens for one frame? And this is going on at 60 Hz?
Edit: replaced 'driven' with 'oriented' - thanks Narishma
This is why I don't get why the game industry has such a bad rep for overworking people. It's genuinely hard to do this kind of code so you'd think they take care not to scare away the few people who can do it. I recall at one point Goldmans was bragging to my team about how they'd hired a game dev to do their click-to-trade currency UI. Seemed like the guy found an easier job for more pay.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, and more. You’ve also got a rigid body (physics) simulation, ai/pathfinding, animation, networking, audio and gameplay logic all to run. If you’re making an open world game, you also need to have streaming code to load and unload parts of the game on the fly. It doesn’t always happen at 60hz (which is 16ms total processing time for all the above plus what’s in the post). Some games run at 30hz(33ms), some run un…
The situation has changed a little bit recently with the introduction of adaptive synchronization monitor standards(GSync and Freesync). On PC this means that framerates above some minimum target can drift without experiencing tearing or missed deadlines.
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So all of this processing happens for one frame? And this is going on at 60 Hz?
A GTX 1060 has 4.4 TFLOPs of processing power. 1920 * 1080 = 2073600 pixels per frame, or 125 million pixels per second. Divide that into 4.4T and you get a budget of max 35,000 operations per pixel. That's quite a lot. In practice you will often spend time waiting for textures to arrive from RAM.
The techniques themselves have also been built up over decades. There's a lot of giants to stand on.