Development Update posted by johno on December 12, 2019, 22:34:18 in sbtf
Rest assured that I'm committed to making this transition as smooth as possible. I do not at this time plan to implement any fallback renderers (as my VPBR implementation is a bit of an all-or-nothing concept), but I will be watching the forums in case anyone has any problems with this change in the rendering code. This shouldn't be a problem, as the PS3.0 is at least 15 years old at this point, and all current hardware will have no problem running this shader model. If we find that there are any glaring examples in the old styles that would much benefit from VPBR we will update them on a case-by-case basis.Īs mentioned, system requirements will be raised minutely by this change, as the VPBR renderer requires Pixel Shader 3.0 (whereas the game previously only required Pixel Shader 2.0). What you will see however in the new styles is both metals and plastics that read much clearer as what they are intended to be. Happily the legacy materials work fine side by side the new materials, so there isn't any technical need to go through everything (which wouldn't have been practical in any case). We have been tackling the new materials on a per-level style basis, and the plan is to roll out these new level styles piecemeal as soon as they are done. I've been working with the eminent artist Stan Brown on new level styles (and implicitly) integrating what I call Vaguely Physically Based Rendering (VPBR) into the game, and I'm happy to announce that the first new level style featuring said VPBR materials is imminent.
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