primeuser opened this issue on Feb 05, 2020 ยท 66 posts
Retrowave posted Thu, 06 February 2020 at 12:40 AM
@Moogal - Thanks for the heads-up, and actually, I think it was you who mentioned about Cycles having a different licence that got me curious about EEVEE's licence. Bummer to hear that, although good to hear of other possible engines to use, and I really hope the Poser team are looking into such things!
@Wolf - To be honest I'm a bit confused about the whole raytracing discussion that is going on. Pretty damn sure my EEVEE is raytracing, refracting, and even blurred-reflecting and blurred-refracting in realtime on my AMD RX580. I heard that even older AMD cards support realtime raytracing, never mind the new ones.
Like you, I feel really spoiled using EEVEE
@Pengie - Hey, don't you worry mate, us AMD users are doing just fine. The cores in AMD hardware are designed to excel in the usage of open source technologies such as OpenCL and Vulcan, and my lovely new RX 580 with thousands of processing cores and 8GB of RAM cost less than one hundred and fifty quid, and is making full use of 'em!
AMD actually announced about a month back that backwards compatible GPU-accelerated raytracing is coming to AMD cards this year, designed to harness the power of AMD cores, but also work with nVidia. This is cool to hear cause it means that while it will work on both brands of cards, it will work better on AMD cards due to the design of their cores.
To be honest, I should have a big cheesy grin in my face because of that, but I thought I was already getting realtime raytracing in EEVEE anyway, so I'm completely bloody baffled by what peeps are talking about. If I'm getting reflection and refraction in EEVEE and it is not through realtime raytracing, then what is it called?
And like I said, it's not just reflection and refraction, it's even doing blurred reflection and refraction, and hell, even light bounces, and it's definitely doing it all in realtime! So not only am I puzzled by what peeps on the forum are talking about, I'm puzzled by what AMD are talking about. I know AMD users already have a full-on GPU-accelerated raytracer by installing AMD's own ProRender software, but that's meant for accuracy. So as far as I can see, AMD already have their users covered. We have ProRender for the accurate stuff, and we have EEVEE for the realtime stuff, and I'm tellin' ya mate, EEVEE is blowing my mind on this card!