THE MAGICIAN & THE HIEROPHANT
⇱Cyberpunk 2077 Tarot⇲
Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077
Two curses befall rendering engineers. First, we lose the ability to look at reality without being constantly reminded of how fascinatingly hard it is to solve light transport and model materials.
Second, when you start playing any game, you cannot refrain from trying to reverse its rendering technology (which is particularly infuriating for multiplayer titles - stop shooting at me, I’m just here to look how rocks cast shadows!).
So when I bought Cyberpunk 2077 I had to look at how it renders a frame. It’s very simple to take RenderDoc captures of it, so I had really no excuse.