Week 3

During class 5 I was unable to make it to our pitch but my team seemed to get constructive feedback which was given to me that afternoon. Class 6 was held virtually due to a snow storm. We were able to talk as a group about changes/simplifications to the environmental transition as I've been having issues optimizing the effect. We also got the chance to review our project with Yong Duk Jhun an industry professional with experience on many animated feature films. 

My focus this week has been on eliminating the crashes I've struggled with when opening, making large edits to, or rendering the transitional environment. The effect I visualized last week was relatively mid Polly (250k poly ~600 Draws) while the scene I've worked with this week is much less so (30k Poly ~300Draws) while the crashing has been mostly fixed with this simpler environment, I wasn't very satisfied with the result and wanted to understand better where the technical debt was most prominent.

I need to test the performance of instanced Nanite meshes for more detailed models and experiment with Ray-tracing and MegaLights as we develop the scene lighting to see if the current observed performance (which i assume with a higher end CPU would be drastically improved) is possible with additional dynamic light sources. But first I'm going to test some pbr materials, especially a transition between 2 as may be a large cost here.