checkthegate opened this issue on Jun 24, 2008 · 13 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Wed, 25 June 2008 at 2:48 AM
Vue rendering and game rendering are two different things.
Vue renders its look of a real world as best as it can by simulating the behaviour of photons via really fast CPU's.
Game engines render their look of a real world as best as they can by simulating Vue renders via graphics chips with lots of video RAM.
I'm sure at some point game engine renders will surpass photon/pixel renders. It's all about the video RAM. 32GB video RAM will be cheap one day.
Programs like Vue will go down in price since they'll render slower (especially on the HD screens everyone will have).
Game engines will be HD friendly. The trouble spot comes when a typical user wants to add their own content to the game engine. It has to be modeled first and then converted into game format. A texture has to made for it too or painted on while in the game engine with a texture already available. Each game engine will have its own file formats and scripts. Otherwise, people will get bored of the content included that can't be edited or added to.
Programs like Vue will still be limited only by the artist. While game engines will limit the artist who can't program.