Comment by TeMPOraL
17 hours ago
> Here's a clip from Cyberpunk 2077.[2]
This looks nothing like actual Cyberpunk 2077. It looks actually realistic - unlike the base game itself where, just like in about every other game since "Physically Based Rendering" became a thing, everything looks like it's made of painted plastic.
Per the video description, this version of C2077 is modded up to its eyeballs. I'm very interested in those mods now, because it's the first time I ever saw someone managed to get materials in a game look somewhat realistic.
I'm amazed how much was accomplished by "modding".
Auto paint looks great. They probably have a clearcoat layer. Skin still looks bad, though. I suspect that Cyberpunk 2077 lacks a subsurface scattering layer in the content. Is that correct? If there's no info there, rendering mods can't improve on it. It's worth thinking about using some Midjourney type system to generate subsurface scattering layers for existing models and make skin look better.
I've used something called "Deep Bump", which uses machine learning to generate normals for flat images. It's great for brick and stone, OK for bark, poor for plants. That probably reflects the training set, and could be improved.