I think it is important to understand the modeling process Naughty Dog uses to craft their game. Naughty Dog always begins with a hi resolution sculpt built in Zbrush. I think on ps4, I heard these are million polygon plus models. They extract the normal map from this model. Later this information is applied to the low res model to transfer some of the details of the hi res model to the low res model. This hi res model is scaled down for the in game cut scenes.
Uncharted 3 used around 30,000 -50000 models for both cutscenes and realtime models. Naughty Dog uses the same model for the cut scenes and for the real time model so the transition is more seamless.
However, the lighting, texture resolution, and shadowing are dulled down for the in game model. What this means that while the real time model looks great when viewed from a certain distance away from the camera, the model loses detail as you get closer. They also LODs for entities other than Drake. These means as the camera is further away from the entity, it can be constructed with less detail to save resources.
While the modeling and assets look to be on the same level, it is pretty obvious the lighting and texture resolution is dialed down from the e3 teaser. It's great that most people won't notice as Naughty Dog has always hoped for this even with their previous games.
The original teaser's lighting and shadowing rivaled what you could achieve using Maya with Vray or MentalRay. Still in comparison to other games, it looks great especially with Naughty Dog's amazing facial animation.
Here is how each model looks like in each stage using Laz and Drake models for the previous Uncharted games.
You don't need a 980 to present Unity at NOT console quality IQ. I've already made it clear it looks fantastic as is, a simple render res of 1080p and solid 30fps solves a lot of problems introduced by the PS4 and Bone version.
Again. Its perfectly valid to say Xbox One version or PS4 version of Unity looks better to someone than say this current pre-alpha version of UC4 does.
This doesn't look like a mediocre game to me (Xbox One version):
Yeah, it ain't great...
You've managed to absolutely miss my point in defense of the guy being quoted. Read above man. Second time you've done this :-( Don't just quote me, press the arrow next to the quote and gain context.
What in the holy fuck are you talking about? WHO'S surprised? Not me! I said as much; it looks great considering how early it is. People are simply expressing subjective opinions with regards to visuals - you're the one acting ridiculous because this guy thinks Unity looks better.
You're being obtuse, maybe even on purpose so shame on me for falling for it. I won't any longer so consider this the last time we interact on this topic.
I just noticed something. During fighting, Nathan and that guy get wet
His shirt blows in the wind in the very first shot of the video, that's gameplay. The cloth physics would of course be more apparent if he was wearing a cape while playing but he isn't wearing anything that extravagant. What you can see however is that all the equipment that he carries uses accurate physics modelling as it's bouncing around and interacting with the undergrowth as he moves. That and the fact that his hair and clothing interacts with individual drops of water are really all that you can see as he's fighting because of the scale and lack of extravagant clothing.
UC4 will have some new and fresh gameplay mechanics. I want some TLOU in it, please.
It's not gameplay, it's an in-game cutscene. Loofy is saying the effect went away when the player actually takes control. I'm not sure whether that's true (it's hard to tell at a typical gameplay camera distance whether his shirt material still waves about), but certainly the gun holster thing does a weird jerk on his back soon after this initial cutscene - could be a sign of a switch to a less-complex gameplay model. It is pretty clear that there is still more detail in certain things during cutscenes like the previous games, even though everything is apparently realtime this time. This is not a complaint, just standard LOD stuff that is expected. Uncharted is not immune to such techniques.
Here is how each model looks like in each stage using Laz and Drake models for the previous Uncharted games.
In the ending cutscene, which is the only point of comparison? IMO, it did.
yeah it looks like they really found a good way to integrate traversal with combat. I really liked what they showed from a gameplay perspective
Small gif from my own
Is there a crouch button or does it rely on tall grass like AC3 and Black Flag? Has it been stated?
Those PC screens? God, this game looks amazing. Real shame the framerate is so bad.This. I want to see the same amount of attention to detail to his clothing as his face.
Like this:
Or this:
Cutscenes in the previous Uncharted games were recorded in engine put not in real time and although we don't know there's nothing about this game that suggests they've changed that process, there is no sign of the cut that you signifies the change in previous games. In all honesty, the comment about the shirt blowing isn't really of any relevance for exactly the reasons that I mentioned, it may well or may not be moving but it's of no importance because it's not usually going to be visible when playing the game in the same way as when he's swimming in the cave I doubt that the trees outside are still being physically modelled as blowing in the wind because there is no benefit at all in doing that.
