Aielyn said:
It's not the grunt itself that causes a need for more work. It's competition. With a system that has more grunt, developers are capable of making games with more detail and more complex visuals, which means more time required to develop code and to develop models, etc. It costs more do to these things, but some developers will be quite happy to spend the sort of money necessary (for instance, Call of Duty developers). And as a result, other developers will effectively be forced to also spend more, in order to avoid significantly losing out on comparisons. Development of new tools to reduce the difficulty of developing code and models will happen, of course, and these will put some downward pressure on costs... but such development is slower than the increase in power, and thus net cost still increases. Anyway, enhancements in lighting and tessellation don't require massive boosts of power. The next generation of game engines, you're right about... but the next generation of hardware is the problem, not the engines. |
You're right, I'm just wondering what extra work is now involved - I would assume that the basic 'asset creation' work-flow would remain the same. Everything is Zbrushed and re-topologised at the moment, it's just that they'll have more poly's to play with. I guess the extra work will be the little details in the environmental assets that currently are breezed past as super low poly simply because the power isn't there.
