Tai chi [太極拳/Тайцзицюань] (demo-scene)

Nice, I'll give it a go when I free up some time.

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Tomcat RAM 256 Gb

I have 8 gb and 3 are used by the integrated gpu. This sounds insane to me.

time will come, just keep swimming

Tomcat It's the kind of message that makes me frustrated. Especially from someone who is obviously quite highly qualified. I thought that work should bring enough income to buy professional tools for it.

8gb is not that bad, the computers that are sold in stores here come with 4-8gb and everyone I know have similar specs.
I can model whatever I need in blender (compared with how it was before) and open many windows at the same time. All that memory would be wasted since I'm not hitting a ceiling.

Tomcat I have a 5 year old development computer! If I bought something like that, it might justifiably cause emotion.

I don't understand what you are trying to say here.
The reasoning behind my comment is that, you are developing a tech demo and the requirements sound way too high (If those are requirements).
If we look at a game like baldur's gate 3, which came out very recently, it asks for 8gb and recommends 16gb. starfield also asks for 16bg, and it's a AAA game by bethesda. skull and bones, the AAAA game also asks for 8gb.

sure, for sculpting the fingerprints on a character you would want 256bg of RAM, but that's for making AAA quality assets, and that is actually a trap, because those games are made by teams of thousands of people, which ultimately limits the scope of your game.
look at senua's sacrifice, you control a single character, fight some dudes and explore a very small world, it didn't get praise for its graphics, everyone instead talks about its themes of mental health issues.

we indie devs have to try and reduce our scope, you either make a very detailed small game, or a medium sized stylized game.
I'm sure this is a very nice looking demo, I don't and can't know what would be using hundreds of gb of RAM, but I'm not going to risk trying to run it.

Tomcat Looks like we're all doing the wrong thing here, folks. Apparently, game development is more of a hobby that requires investment than it is an income that brings it in.

well you are the one with 256gb of RAM. Think of it this way: If your game can only run in your computer, that limits the number of potential buyers of said game.
I work with limitations, that doesn't make me worse at dev, It makes me better, because I have to find creative solutions to problems instead of brute-forcing them, that's how I learned so much.
Look at history: silent hill added the atmospheric mist in order to hide the world being generated. the mechanics in diablo were built around the isometric view. the invisible wall in battlefield was added to stop players from going out of the map and it was kept because it forces them to stay were the action is.

Tomcat Two buddies:
– I've got a new game released!
– How much did you sell?
– Not much: an apartment, a car.

Dev for me is a hobbie, yes, I am a welder. I hope one day I finish a game and release it and its successful, but you can't just jump head first into something without a plan if things go bad, and you can't guarantee that your first game is going to be an instant success, that is just not realistic. From what I heard, a good game can be on store for years and get picked up suddenly, or remain a "hidden gem" forever, or instead go to the bottom of worst of steam. or just be mid and never stand out.
Some things are just out of our control, we need to be able to adapt quickly to the changes.

Tomcat These are not requirements for running the demo. Those specifications come after “Programs used”. It's just a matter of good manners that we have adopted here, and that I was taught — it is recommended to specify what hardware the game is developed on.

it would be a good idea to get the actual requirements for the game.
you can check roughly how much memory and video memory is used by the game. testing CPU and GPU performance would be more difficult though.
Godot recommends 4 gb of RAM for developing games, but since it supports mobile, I imagine that the final game's memory usage can much lower and depends on the number of assets.
the lower end of requirements is much more important than the "recommended setting".

Tomcat I was also taught that a game should be developed on hardware classed higher than the target platform.

yes, but how much higher?
this sounds like something that would be said of unity and its ridiculously heavy editor, or unreal and its stupidly heavy editor. godot is kinda special, it even has a phone version.
If I'm making pacman, I shouldn't need a NASA supercomputer to develop it. of course this isn't pacman, it is a high quality project, but must also have its limits. otherwise we fall into the trap of telling people "just get a better pc", and most can't or wont do that.

Tomcat Optimization is the very last stage of development.

if you are a good programmer, you can tell before hand when something is going to cause problems. this isn't so much optimization as it is software engineering. designing the systems and how they interact with each other.
optimizations can be made on algorithms and individual parts of a program, but if the whole thing is done wrong, you have to realize early or will end up having to rewrite a lot of code. and sometimes having to remake assets.
Maybe I'm just old school, back in the day we had to calculate how much memory we were going to use before writing the code, while we don't have to worry about arrays overflowing anymore, this is still a concern with texture sizes.

Tomcat My goal is a large number of characters and open space and I don't want development to be slowed down by technical limitations.

My limitations are yet to come.

fair enough.

Tomcat I have an old comp (15 years old, by the way, it has 12 GB RAM) to test performance and it is the “target platform”.

that's good to hear.

Tomcat Nope, your computer will not burn up from this demo — it was run on a laptop with integrated graphics and nothing terrible happened.

I might give it a try.

Tomcat removed specification and added requirements.

lol

Jesusemora Tomcat removed specification and added requirements.

thats a dick move. dont conform to what bullies are bullying you into.

As for mins
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/about/system_requirements.html#exported-godot-project

But idk, im kinda curious how to determine the min req. for the game you develop in godot.

All them gigs of vram yet you're using monotonously repeating textures without any visual variation like it's freaking 1996.

xyz All them gigs of vram yet you're using monotonously repeating textures without any visual variation like it's freaking 1996.

It is indeed a bit 'boring' but even if they made it more variable it would involve more shader throughput than gpu memory, realistically. But certainly be more demanding of both.

xyz All them gigs of vram yet you're using monotonously repeating textures without any visual variation like it's freaking 1996.

it does look like a 2003 VR game that they play in doctor house or the x-files. it's the flat high quality assets.

but this is an early version and he could add some PBR textures later, or better models.

I haven't tried the demo, but here are some hints:
if your target platform can handle it, add SSS (subsurface scattering) to the model (for organic materials), it look so much better with it.
the makehuman hair is low quality, try to replace it with one of your own. one with different strands and a normal map.
makehuman assets waste a lot of geometry and have very tiny parts, removing them in blender is a good idea, or baking the textures into a lower poly model. this however will add more work.

combining dithering with upscaling is an alternative to alpha transparency.

use bigger, higher quality textures. textures that cover a bigger area instead of a single tiny repeating texture. you can find free CC0 PBR materials in ambientCG. polyhaven also has some good ones but are smaller.

add an HDR sky, or any sky at all. it will improve the ambient lighting.

reduce sky contribution and add some form of GI, like voxelGI or enabling hdfgi.

add volumetric fog, even if faint. it will add atmosphere to the scene.

set a physical camera, this will give you a dynamic form of DOF.

use linear or ACES color.

look for the physical values of the materials and set the roughness to something other than 1, or use PBR materials.

enable SSAO.