ChorizoPicozo
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Yep, it doesn't look as good as the weird faces trailer. Next-Gen still hasn't arrived
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[Digital Foundry] Hellblade 2 Preview Reaction: The New State of the Art for Unreal Engine 5?
- Thread starter ChiefDada
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Projects — 3Lateral
3Lateral - Empowering digital characters accross AAA productionswww.3lateral.com
Their website is not working well right now but I found someone who had shared their article about the work they did on Horizon.
Weird, that page isn't even on archive.org.
While Microsoft doesn't care too much if a Xbox game runs on PC,I don't think that makes sense because the game was shown with Series X.
So fucking unbelievably stupid.
Negotiator101
Member
It’ll look better than console quality and 60fps on that $1300 PC.
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
No doubt, but if you want the best, you'll have to shell out the big bucks.
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TxKnight7
Member
that's like buying ps5+ps5 pro + xbox+ paying to play online ,i'll stick to PC and Steam ftw!Nonsense, as usual
Let’s not even go into the sub $1000 PCs with 3070 Ti/4060 GPUs.
Negotiator101
Member
As much as the PS5 needs a graphical showcase I don't think HB2 will be ported over. Its not a GaaS game or a big AAA release.
Mr Moose
Member
Horizon forbidden West - 3Lateral
3Lateral Studio is built around passion for creating characters and creatures.
cloudfront-epicgames.3lateral.com
Negotiator101
Member
A fool and his money.....
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Horizon forbidden West - 3Lateral
3Lateral Studio is built around passion for creating characters and creatures.
Gracias.
Bojji
Member
What they are doing or my post?
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
What about on the $4000 rig?
Projects - 3Lateral
3Lateral Studio is built around passion for creating characters and creatures.
web.archive.org
Sometime after January of this year they started to revamp their entire website.
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
Negotiator101
Member
Looks phenomenal, finally we have a game that looks like what we imagined next-gen would look like.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Projects — 3Lateral
3Lateral - Empowering digital characters accross AAA productions
Their website is not working well right now but I found someone who had shared their article about the work they did on Horizon.
Guerrilla has outdone itself yet again with the last “Horizon Forbidden West,” released in February 2022. This second game in the series is considered a triumphant combination of enthralling combat with the top-tier creature and character designs that together form a captivating open world populated with astonishing tribes. The 3Lateral team, alongside our friends from Cubic Motion, were thrilled to be a part of this masterpiece by helping bring the characters to life.
The attention to detail on each of the game's characters, on top of the incredibly rich world design, provides a level of immersion that envelops players in the story. Each tribe is distinct from one another and the costume design on display throughout the game is breathtaking. To accomplish such quality and consistency, the project required a vast pool of game characters of different descent, age and demography.
Guerrilla was an early adopter of the technology that contributed to the creation of MetaHuman Creator, and for this sequel, they generated 168 unique characters utilizing MetaHuman core tech. 20 people were scanned in order to create the “hero” characters, while additional talent was scanned to produce a “data gene pool” that was used as a statistical back-end to generate another 67 characters via MetaHuman core tech. Each of these characters uses the same LOD design, which is supported by the MetaHuman assets, enabling them to be used to deliver content for marketing materials, cinematics and within the gameplay set in the open world of “Horizon Forbidden West.” There is more to come with the Horizon franchise, and we're happy to share that our teams continued their collaboration throughout the production of "Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores," creating additional characters for the DLC.
Guerrilla knows that a cutting-edge asset creation pipeline needs an animation process of equal fidelity. Our animation team was commissioned to capture facial animation data across the full range of “Horizon Forbidden West’s” cast of characters, and in the end, we delivered more than seven hours of footage to be used across their characters. The optimal approach to performance analysis and solving allows for flexibility and scalability via pixel-accurate machine vision tracking of an actor’s face and then combining that with a complex mapping of the actor’s performance data to a facial asset.
Guerrilla completed the casting of a large number of actors, who were captured in various locations across the globe. For instances where a single actor could play multiple roles, but the actor needed to be captured in different locations using a variety of cameras, our team delivered a solver solution capable of securing consistency across performances. Streamlined by our experienced service team, this pipeline enabled Guerrilla to maintain a high-quality bar across such a massive game.
The DNA file format paired with Rig Logic from MetaHumans was also used in the “Horizon Forbidden West” project. This DNA file structure is becoming recognized as a data standard for the representation of digital humans in AAA projects and interactive entertainment in general. RigLogic secured run-time performance for facial rigs and enabled optimization of both the rig evaluation speed and memory footprint for the character asset. In terms of memory optimization, RigLogic does not require baking the rig elements per frame (e.g. joints, blend shapes, or wrinkle maps), and instead only requires baking the head rig control animation, which is memory light.
This is incredible!
Rocco Schiavone
Member
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Has this $3000 rig already the best gaming CPU + RAM combo?
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
At $3000 it had better.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I am lovable. Everyone should feel the need to defend me.
JerryinSoCal
Member
When they don't give you the option to disable that crap it pisses me off, Naughty Dog goes way over the top with chromatic aberration and never lets us turn it off.
Lethal01
Member
Lumen reflections are a mixed technique by definition, did they forget?
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I think they meant in reference to SSR, planar and RT being used in some combination for reflections.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
No, that was it
solidus12
Member
You realize that the first Hellblade came to PS4 before Xbox right?
Sooner or later, it will release on PS5, given that the audience of this type of game is predominately on PlayStation.
Negotiator101
Member
Yeah maybe.
My yardstick would be more in the comparison with Hellblade 1 on PS4/XBO. As seen in the video, the leap is clearly generational and for that reason alone I believe that the Studio has delivered on the technical side.
And its visual level is magnificent, but I am clear that we will see more games that will reach this level but also be broader in ambition and complexity.
NinjaTheory is a Studio with 80 developers and running 2 projects at the same time. It is clear that there is room to do bigger things in UE5 with bigger Studios and more resources. Of course, don't expect miracles in the visual aspect with UE5 on these consoles if the game is done at 60fps.
What they are doing lol
ChorizoPicozo
Member
wait a minute, all of these clips were provided by xbox, no direct capture from DF?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
B roll from a preview event.
fred420170
Member
haha, sure buddy.. I just finished Horizon FW last weekend on PC it's beautiful but is nowhere near the level that HB2 is.
FIREKNIGHT2029
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HeWhoWalks
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ChiefDada
Gold Member
??
You have a gameplay scene where there are a dozen characters on a shore in the sea under a storm full of detail and geometry while you fight with a deformed giant.....
Clearly the game is going to have mostly moments of loneliness for the character but, unlike the first Hellblade, I think this one is going to have at least several moments where a lot of things are going to happen on screen. In fact, during the 1v1 fights seen you can see things happening around.
iamvin22
Industry Verified
What? This is a Xbox game with pc as an after thought. They need to sell this to all the series s/x users that picked up a box.
Showing the pc build would do more harm than good. Sure they could add the pc build to the video but I believe focusing on the Xbox version was the right move.
Buggy Loop
Member
I can't stand that guy's voice, putting me to sleep.
twilo99
Member
Starfield is not using UE5 so they worked around the horrible zen2 CPU in there... won't be the case with this game, no amount of motion blur will save the situation.