Originally posted by Migz - DH:

Eh..... I suspect that Unity would allow rendering to further away from the camera. One just needs to adjust the settings in the engine.

How far out from the camera would cripple your PC?

I read up on the engine, apparently it is a bit of an issue, even in games like Assassin's creed Valhala.

Maybe I'll call the flame now, but IMHO I don't think Unity is a good system (like everything from MIcrosoft). About a year ago, I tried to write a graphics-intensive application in full-screen mode and compared the speed of code in #C and Java. Unfortunately, Java outperformed #C by a few horsepower in terms of graphics performance and acceleration. If Unity is written in a similar way like #C, I'm not surprised by the current problems with graphics, speed, rendering distance, etc ... The best way is to write an application (game) directly in C ++ code and use direct access to DirectX, any intermediate layer (like Unity) only steals computing power at the expense of multiplatformity and other nonsense ...

Performance reasons

unity is aids

some big engines that can do OK on draw distance are

RAGE - for red dead, GTA

cryengine 2 - crysis, far cry

UE5 was ok with witcher 3

try subnautica (unity) you can't see giant islands until you are right on top of them, shamefu dispray

dark souls 3 was surprisingly good. elden ring is decent

icarus was garbage so I'd stay away from Unreal

There is a trick in graphics where you can render a relatively low quality 2d image from the 3-d data really fast for distant stuff that is too far to fool with a real rendering, but I am not sure V uses that technique. So you can render huge distances; its not a pure technical limitation, but there is rarely any point. Most games also have a tiny bit of 'atmosphere' cloud effect that as distance increases, so does the density of this junk you are looking through, making far away stuff just an outline and eventually obscured. V does have that but you can turn it off I think.

I feel like I can see plenty far, but i wish it uncovered the map out to what I can see. Different topic there.

Originally posted by Zarn:

yes

really... hmm, I do know they lied about a recent movie that was made with Unity...

...this would not exactly surprise me.

Eh..... I suspect that Unity would allow rendering to further away from the camera. One just needs to adjust the settings in the engine.

How far out from the camera would cripple your PC?

yes

I'd say it was pretty much a limitation imposed due to optimization.

They simply can't afford to render too far or performance would tank badly.

I suggested a sort of mode that you could basically cut part of the world out and have it fully rendered for photos and such. Would be nice.