Sony E3 Prediction Thread:Come check your results!

[darkknightkryta]

nnodley said:

darkknightkryta said:

The ram won't actually help with that, drawing triangles is processing dependant.  I was just curious cause they mentioned a lot of effects.  i mean using ray tracing for reflections.  The overall quality of the normal maps is better.  The lighting is amazing.  I was just hoping to see "Next gen" tesselation since tesselation in current games isn't too noticeable.

Oh I know the ram won't help with polygons.  Would it help with tesselation because doesn't tesselation just help smooth out the polygons?  I'm not too familiar with what exactly it does. 

No.  Tesselation is just sub dividing a polygon.  It "smoothes" out rough edges essentially.  But you can take it further.  Set up control points and automatically fill in the polygons.  It essentially gives you automatic LODs.  You just have to set the control points for where you want the polygons to be filled in.  It also can be used to repurpose polygons.  So if you have a cutscene, you're mostly zoomed in on characters.  You can take control points for the background and draw less polygons there and use control points to draw more polygons on the model.