New Renderer

With experimental AMD Support (degraded visual and performance but it's playable)

Our fully ray-traced renderer has been completely redone. The structure has also been tweaked to take into account AMD's limitations and a driver bug, in a way that we can run in a degraded mode while still fully playable. The performance of this new renderer is better overall, but we've taken advantage of that to slightly increase the rendering fidelity. Underwater performance and quality should be significantly better. The new structure also allow the renderer itself to be moddable. What's changed in the renderer:

Refactored to be modular, adding ability for new modules to add their own hit shaders or to change the default renderer without changing all hit shaders
New algorithm using a single recursion so as to support AMD driver on Windows and allow for simpler hit shaders
Removed old unused buffers and images to improve performance and VRAM usage
Greatly improved underwater visual realism with ray-marched volumetric fog instead of a simple falloff curve
Added a new graphics option for Underwater Volumetric Fog, enabled by default with preset Low+ but disabled for AMD
Added a new graphics option for Underwater Light Rays (extending Underwater Volumetric Fog), enabled with the High and Ultra Quality presets
Tweaked glass refraction so it's a little bit less cumbersome and less prone to visual artifacts
Fixed underwater screens (was not taking the water's tint)
Fixed plasma was not visible underwater

What's degraded on AMD?

Ray-tracing Performance is lower than on NVIDIA (we recommed a RX 7800 or 7900 XT)
FSR2 is less powerfull than DLSS, causing more ghosting and blurryness (will update to FSR3 soon)
Graphics options "Underwater Volumetric Fog" and "Atmospheric Shadows" disabled due to a driver issue

Full Changelog

New renderer that is faster, looks better, and runs on AMD
Made crosshair scale along with the Ui Scaling option
Bugfix XenonCode max() was not working with negative numbers

[ 2024-07-09 23:36:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Archean is a realistic and immersive engineering sandbox / space sim.
In this game you start on Earth but 3 billion years in the past, in the Archean eon.

This game (and its custom engine) is being developed by a single programmer in a small team of two.

What kind of game is it (currently)?

* Engineering Sandbox
* Solo or Multiplayer
* Open World
* First person
* Space Sim
* Full size Earth and Moon
* In-game coding
* Creative mode
* Fully ray-traced graphics

What we will add in future versions:

* Survival mode
* Full scale solar system
* A focus on exploration
* LOTS more content
* Vehicle Destruction and PVP
* SDK for modders

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 22.04 or Manjaro
Processor: quad coreMemory: 8 GB RAM
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 20 series (GTX not supported)Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 2 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: AMD not supported yet
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Ubuntu 22.04 or Manjaro
Processor: 8 coreMemory: 16 GB RAM
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 30 or 40 seriesNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 2 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: AMD not supported yet

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