Generations Raytracing - Unleashed Project with Alternative Lighting

Skyth
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2023-12-28に共有
Upcoming mod that adds real-time GPU raytracing to Sonic Generations. Global illumination, shadows & reflections are completely real-time and raytraced. In this video, I'm showcasing the feature where you can immediately switch to another level's lighting. I have upscaled the video to 2K and reuploaded it to have better bitrate.

Timestamps:
00:00 Windmill Isle Act 1 (Day)
01:19 Windmill Isle Act 2 (Morning)
05:08 Savannah Citadel (Sunset)
08:19 Rooftop Run (Sunset)
13:29 Dragon Road (Night)
17:53 Cool Edge (Morning)
22:06 Arid Sands (Night)
26:03 Skyscraper Scamper (Morning)
30:06 Jungle Joyride (Morning)

Performance is looking very promising. This video is using DLSS Quality Mode at 1080p on a 3070 Ti Laptop GPU, which means the internal resolution is 720p. FPS drops mostly happen in areas with a lot of transparent meshes. There are other sudden frame drops in this video, but that's because of the video recorder eating system resources.

Unless I can find more ways to optimize this further, this is how the performance is going to be on release. However, I'd like to note that I am currently doing dithered transparency. If I wanted to implement alpha blending, it might come with a huge performance cost. Only time will tell.

Some LODs are visible in Rooftop Run because I am not handling instance visibility yet. Grass & plant instancers are not implemented either, causing them to not appear in Windmill Isle & Savannah Citadel. Also, pitch black areas require point lights to be placed manually, which is yet to be done.

This mod does NOT utilize RTX Remix in any way or form!

Highlights:
04:45 Goal ring shining on the ground in Windmill Isle Act 2
09:29 Unimplemented error shader contributing to global illumination in Rooftop Run
19:52 Cool water reflections in Cool Edge
24:02 Rings illuminating the environment in Arid Sands
24:43 Dash rings illuminating the environment in Arid Sands
25:35 Goal ring shining on the ground in Arid Sands
29:36 Goal ring shining on the ground in Skyscraper Scamper
30:31 Cool water reflections in Jungle Joyride
33:12 Switch illuminating the object in Jungle Joyride

Unleashed Project by Team Unleashed: www.moddb.com/mods/sonic-generations-unleashed-pro…
コメント (21)
  • @kurgan1
    an amazing addition to the Sonic Generations modding community! We appreciate your work Skyth!
  • @GravityLoL
    Any game uses Ray Tracing: i sleep Gens gets Ray Tracing as a mod : I NEED NEW GPU
  • @xan1242
    Skyth, you've come a long way. From simple shader mods back in the day to actual HH renderer mods like this is a massive achievement. Great work! I'd love to come back to Gens modding someday! I keep saying this and never go through with it, but someday it'll happen.
  • @sonictrain1
    This is how I remember the game looking as a kid, holy cow this is gorgeous
  • @Plastino2
    THIS LOOKS BEAUTIFUL, can't imagine playing the FPS destroyer stage with a Intel ARC xd, You are doing a great Job with this.
  • @MrDannyloco
    This is honestly how I thought unleashed looked like when I was a kid
  • @VirtuaMaster
    So clearly it's got some things I need to be fixed. I'm looking at you, rooftop run. Overall, it looks very beautiful. Good work!
  • @AKablalik
    Who would’ve thought a game from over a decade ago could look at this good now.
  • @jovani6044
    I swear dragon road night hits different, so beautiful
  • @NamelessCrusad3r
    This footage gets me hyped up on levels comparable to me when TheRussianBadger drops a new vid
  • @R4NK4Z
    Dayum, looks pretty nice Looking forward!
  • @dustarma
    The funniest thing is that it doesn't look all that different to the original, but more detailed. That's only testament to how good the baked lighting in Unleashed and Generations was
  • @neonXG
    OH MY GOD THIS GOES ABSOLUTELY CRAZY doing god's work here Skyth!!