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First "Larrabee" Project Offset screenshot according to Intel
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Liabe Brave
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Plus the left front leg, according to the shadow, is bent so far under the body that the elbow is completely on the midline of the belly. And the right wing evidently has an extra joint to allow it to flex 90 degrees away from the body wall.bcn-ron said:
But the most telling thing is the "comparison shot". If the first one was actually a screenshot, it would be trivially easy to remove the models, smoke, and lighting in the engine to render a downgraded version ("what can be done now"). But in fact they just photoshopped that stuff away--as is abundantly clear if you look at the shadow of the farther flag tower on the arena floor, which is broken into segments by cloning sand texture over the missing people.
This is concept art.
Labombadog
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Flying_Phoenix said:Just in time for my next PC upgrade!
Same here!
Also, I hope those graphics are not bull (guessing it is). It just seems so unreal.
Mr. Durden
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What's with all the people who don't seem to know a thing about this game?! There are some gameplay vids on Youtube, and eventhough they're old, they still look absolutely sick.
Ether_Snake
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Remember that THIS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkoi6WCCJHY was two years ago. Before the whole Intel/Larrabee thing. A lot of this stuff dates back from when they were no more than five guys working on this.
maniac-kun
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this is a video of project offset running on larrabee hardware: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47368.html dosnt look as blured as the screenshots.
gameplay trailer from 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYJIhdszyA
gameplay trailer from 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYJIhdszyA
Ether_Snake
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maniac-kun said:
That is actually not from the game, it is just something they made quickly for the GDC presentation to show how easy it was to do.
maniac-kun
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at least its inengine and running on larrabee <:Ether_Snake said:
Minsc
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Liabe Brave said:
Actually if you compare the lower-left bottom section of the pillar to the other one, you'll see there's a chunk missing from it, where it looks like `-| instead of |-|
I'm not sure if the thing you're calling a shadow is a shadow, it doesn't seem to line up properly.
Compare below:
brain_stew
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Ether_Snake said:Late 2010 or early 2011
Earlier tahn that surely. LRB is aiming to compete with Nvidia and ATI's DX11 GPUs and they should launch at the end of the year. Intel can't afford for LRB to be too far behind. So yeah, within 6 months GPUs capable of such renders in real time at full HD resolutions should be available in the consumer space.
Heck, with SLI and Crossfire technology, a single PCB $400 GPU (4870x2) could likely achieve that right now. That same GPU is around 6 months old now as well.
element said:
Intel have been showing silicon at recent events, if anyone has access to early LRB derivatives, then its the Offset guys. At the very least they'll have a very, very good idea exactly what LRB is capable of.
Kevin said:
:lol :lol
You have got to be kidding me. Really now, go watch that video in HD again, its light years beyond what these consoles are pumping out. As well it should be, it is being developed for 4/5 year newer tech.
PkunkFury
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Minsc said:Actually if you compare the lower-left bottom section of the pillar to the other one, you'll see there's a chunk missing from it, where it looks like `-| instead of |-|
I'm not sure if the thing you're calling a shadow is a shadow, it doesn't seem to line up properly.
Compare below:
That's not a part of the bottom of the pillar, there is something in front of the pillar casting a small shadow. The rest of the "Shadow" on the larrabee image is actually some stuff on the ground, you can see it is still there in the competitor shot, but the forground characters obscure the gaps making it look like one shadow
Ether_Snake
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Minsc said:Actually if you compare the lower-left bottom section of the pillar to the other one, you'll see there's a chunk missing from it, where it looks like `-| instead of |-|
I'm not sure if the thing you're calling a shadow is a shadow, it doesn't seem to line up properly.
Compare below:
Yeah it's probably just a concept art, sadly:|
brain_stew said:
I can garantee you PO is not being released this year, not any game for Larrabee.
If everything goes as planned, in early 2010 you'll see some games ported to Larrabee. PO itself no way.
Minsc
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PkunkFury said:
So you don't think that square beneath the stripe towards the bottom of the pillar is part of the pillar, and it is just coincidence that there's one in front of both pillars, and that it shares the same texture as the pillar?
That abrupt edge right to the left of the rectangle where the person used to be (in the gif) seems out of place to me.
Edit: I guess if the screenshots weren't so damned blurry this wouldn't be as big a mystery :lol
brain_stew
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Ether_Snake said:
Oh I agree, note my careful wording. I expect LRB to hit before Q2 next year, the point I was responding to was in relation to the question of when will we have the hardware available for such software. I'd expect Offset to be a Fall '10 title.
brain_stew
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Fatalah said:
No its Intel's attempt at a GPU and is not intended to replace a system's main CPU or run an OS. It is however based around stripped down X86 cores (with added 512bit wide Vector units) which are fully programmable.