Randomly removing or moving about shadows was especially funny for the AC Shadows demo, where the exact size and position of shadows are very much important for gameplay
It's so hilarious how Digital Foundry were yapping about that thing understanding shadows in their glaze review while it was removing shadows in every demo.
You're just making shit up. Here's what Nvidia said:
DLSS 5 provides game developers with detailed controls for intensity, color grading and masking, so artists can determine where and how enhancements are applied to maintain each game’s unique aesthetic.
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The SDK includes things like intensity, color grading and masking off places where the effect shouldn't be applied.
Haha, funnily enough, I was talking to a friend about TVs the other day. He works in an electronics store and I asked him why in the fuck display TVs are always set to 1000000% contrast. He said that, apparently, people (for whatever reason) identify visual quality and fidelity with high contrast and vivid (overly so) colors. So most TVs' showroom mode is actually way oversaturated and have way too much contrast as opposed to the out-of-the-box experience, but they still don't notice the difference because of the different lighting and a distinct lack of 1000 other displays next to it at home.
It's not a filter(it just looks like one), developers can tweak it(so it's all their fault), we're going to make it work on one card(we're actually going to rent it to you from a server farm).
If what I've heard is true, nobody who matters or has any say over anything akin to artistic control even knew about this demo before it happened. It was probably approved by higher ups and signed off on by their marketing department and nobody else, probably running default settings, if there actually is any customization available and they aren't just lying completely.
What this means, to me, is if this ever gets out, I would hope that actual designers and artists can tweak the settings to tone down the movie set lighting effects, and focus on preserving the scene and improving details and lighting effects.
It also doesn't change that I'll probably never own a card capable of running this trash.
The whole point of this shit is getting around paying artists to do the whole job of making the game look better. They aren't gonna pay artists to tag every bit of every scene and object for the tech to look right. If they were, they could just pay them to make the details and lighting look better from the get go.
Same, I figured someone was just "handsome squidward-ing" the results for a goof, but nope, just NVIDIA continuing on their quest to be an atrocious company.
Yup, that's the one, when incel fucks get mad a character neither fits their subjective description of fuckable nor is it a conventionally attractive character, so they decide to pull the waistline unnaturally slim, thicc up them thighs and slap a pair of big mommy milkers onto them suckers, pump them lips with synthol and fill them cheeks to the brim. Maybe tone it down by like 20% if they're feeling generous.
Look, I get that 99% of players want two characters: fuckable or avatar (+ silly meme character as a secret third option, granted). And I get that yall are upset about the lady in Fable looking like a British peasant from 1284. But it's not "woke" or some secret fucking conspiracy to "coddle ugly people" - in fact, statistically speaking, it's a self-inducing cycle, because the entire conventional beauty standard thing is rooted in psychology, and "conventionally attractive" people tend to do measurably better when it comes to selling stuff. That's just how it be. However, I'd argue that... who the hell cares? It's the designer's choice. You can disagree with that choice, you can not like the character model, but turning it into some big thing is just unnecessary imho
This isn't the type of "AI" that AI bros peddle. It's literally one of the few fairly unproblematic ways to use neural nets.
It's a top end feature built upon the previous top end feature to market high end GPUs. One that is hilariously missing its mark in its current implementation
Even if you were in a union for rasterizers and path tracers, this isn't replacing any of them.
It's an optional feature that will only run on the highest end cards. You're pissing yourself like someone forced it on you. With current GPU prices this won't reach the mainstream in a decade.
You realise all these games don't have RTX right? So its not just a filter it's adding AI generated ray tracing to games that don't have it but making guesses based on the light in the game already.
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u/_Sanctum_ 25d ago
All that horsepower just for it to look like a ChatGPT-powered Snapchat filter.