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[TobitheCat]

Of course it's CG. It's just not pre-rendered CG, according to the dev. Obviously not the playable model, but even for a cut, that's ****ing amazing.

I guess you haven't seen the benchmarks that ship with Nvidia cards. That's about on par with this.

It looks nice, but not beyond the capabilities of weaker PC cards. Would have been more impressive if it was actually in game, though.

Guess we will have to wait till the next, next gen for that.

 

[Lord Error]

It looks nice, but not beyond the capabilities of weaker PC cards.

This to me looks better than even the one that ships with 8800 card, I forgot the name. It definitely blows away those older ones, like Dawn.

 

[xaosslug]

NEW SCREENSHOT!!!!!!

She is ****ing gorgeous.

holy.freaking.crap... :O

 

[Blablurn]

Real Time?

 

[luca_29_bg]

Real Time?

Yeah it will be but not in game only cut scene

 

[luca_29_bg]

i really hope that uncharted use the same model for cut scene and in game.Please Please Please naughty dog

 

[Evazan]

That shot is mind blowing....

 

[EekTheKat]

The skin shader in that new pic of Nariko is amazing - I'm assuming that's a sample of the work done on the skin shaders mentioned earlier in the thread.

When HS releases someone should post pics of how the Nariko model evolved from the nearly featureless face in the old E3 trailer to the one in the final game.

 

[u_neek]

i really hope that uncharted use the same model for cut scene and in game.Please Please Please naughty dog

Sorry, Nariko isn't in Uncharted...

 

[dfyb]

they didn't say it wasn't an in-game model, and it very well could be.

 

[tribal24]

its a trap>.> anyone ever think that could be ingame? but lesser detail and what they showed in heroes was the build from like a year ago?

 

[luca_29_bg]

Sorry, Nariko isn't in Uncharted...

i know i want only the highest level of detail for model in game.Just all

 

[Y2Kev]

I love the cycle we go in.

Gaf 1: Is that real time?
Gaf 2: Yeah.
Developer: Yep.
Gaf 1: OMG
Gaf 2: I know!
Gaf 3: That looks amazing!
Gaf 4: Of course it looks amazing, it isn't real time.
Gaf 1: It's real time.
Gaf 2: It's real time.
Gaf 3: It's real time.
Developer: Yeah.
Gaf 4: Wow, that's amazing!
Gaf 5: Of course it is amazing, but I wonder if it is real time.

 

[Evazan]

I love the cycle we go in.

Gaf 1: Is that real time?
Gaf 2: Yeah.
Developer: Yep.
Gaf 1: OMG
Gaf 2: I know!
Gaf 3: That looks amazing!
Gaf 4: Of course it looks amazing, it isn't real time.
Gaf 1: It's real time.
Gaf 2: It's real time.
Gaf 3: It's real time.
Developer: Yeah.
Gaf 4: Wow, that's amazing!
Gaf 5: Of course it is amazing, but I wonder if it is real time.

:lol

 

[Bad_Boy]

I love the cycle we go in.

Gaf 1: Is that real time?
Gaf 2: Yeah.
Developer: Yep.
Gaf 1: OMG
Gaf 2: I know!
Gaf 3: That looks amazing!
Gaf 4: Of course it looks amazing, it isn't real time.
Gaf 1: It's real time.
Gaf 2: It's real time.
Gaf 3: It's real time.
Developer: Yeah.
Gaf 4: Wow, that's amazing!
Gaf 5: Of course it is amazing, but I wonder if it is real time.

:lol

 

[TTP]

I love the cycle we go in.

:lol

That's called the "Cycle of GAF"

 

[Dante]

Uh....No way that last shot is real time..............Is it? :O

 

[urk]

I love the cycle we go in.

Gaf 1: Is that real time?
Gaf 2: Yeah.
Developer: Yep.
Gaf 1: OMG
Gaf 2: I know!
Gaf 3: That looks amazing!
Gaf 4: Of course it looks amazing, it isn't real time.
Gaf 1: It's real time.
Gaf 2: It's real time.
Gaf 3: It's real time.
Developer: Yeah.
Gaf 4: Wow, that's amazing!
Gaf 5: Of course it is amazing, but I wonder if it is real time.

One part thread skimming one part learned behavior. You can only get burned so many times before you stop trusting developers.

 

[mckmas8808]

its a trap>.> anyone ever think that could be ingame? but lesser detail and what they showed in heroes was the build from like a year ago?

The Heros build was from November of 2006. So yes it was kinda old.

 

[TobitheCat]

they didn't say it wasn't an in-game model, and it very well could be.

Let's not get out of hand and fall back into a post E3 '05 stupor. We've already seen the in-game model and it's not even close.

Be realistic and you'll enjoy the end product more.

 

[mckmas8808]

One part thread skimming one part learned behavior. You can only get burned so many times before you stop trusting developers.

Yeah but Nostormo has talked to us enough for us to trust him.

 

[mckmas8808]

Let's not get out of hand and fall back into a post E3 '05 stupor. We've already seen the in-game model and it's not even close.

Be realistic and you'll enjoy the end product more.

TobitheCat
I rail against unbelievers
in Microsoft's holy name

I figure you would say that.

 

[urk]

Yeah but Nostormo has talked to us enough for us to trust him.

I'm not speaking to any particular developer, but rather just trying to offer an explanation for why the cycle of disbelief exists.

 

[Oldschoolgamer]

I love the cycle we go in.

Gaf 1: Is that real time?
Gaf 2: Yeah.
Developer: Yep.
Gaf 1: OMG
Gaf 2: I know!
Gaf 3: That looks amazing!
Gaf 4: Of course it looks amazing, it isn't real time.
Gaf 1: It's real time.
Gaf 2: It's real time.
Gaf 3: It's real time.
Developer: Yeah.
Gaf 4: Wow, that's amazing!
Gaf 5: Of course it is amazing, but I wonder if it is real time.

:lol

 

[antiloop]

Last pic is perfect wallpaper. I would have liked one in 1680x1050 though as that is my monitors native resolution. :/

They are spoiling us with graphics this generation.

 

[kevm3]

If they can get stuff looking this good not even a year into the PS3's life, assuming it releases before November, I don't even want to know what they'll be able to punch out at the end.

 

[The Jer]

I love the cycle we go in.

Gaf 1: Is that real time?
Gaf 2: Yeah.
Developer: Yep.
Gaf 1: OMG
Gaf 2: I know!
Gaf 3: That looks amazing!
Gaf 4: Of course it looks amazing, it isn't real time.
Gaf 1: It's real time.
Gaf 2: It's real time.
Gaf 3: It's real time.
Developer: Yeah.
Gaf 4: Wow, that's amazing!
Gaf 5: Of course it is amazing, but I wonder if it is real time.

:lol The first thing I thought when I saw this shot was: that can't be real time. No way.

 

[dfyb]

its a trap>.> anyone ever think that could be ingame? but lesser detail and what they showed in heroes was the build from like a year ago?

they already said the heroes build is from like november...

 

[My Arms Your Hearse]

I'll never understand why people have trouble comprehending the difference between gameplay models and real-time cutscene models. I could point out any variety of games, notable PS2 FF titles, that have THREE different set of models... gameplay... real-time cutscene... and CGI cutscene... and needless to say, the real-time cutscene models BLOW AWAY the gameplay ones. I think it is fairly obvious you won't be playing a model that looks that good, but that doesn't mean they're using CGI, either. Everyone thinks the FFXIII real-time cutscenes are CGI too, even when we have a CGI model to compare them with, and they're clearly not the same.

Go GAF!!!

 

[gofreak]

It's realtime, but I was sure someone (a dev) mentioned that there were differences between the in-game and cutscene model. Still though, it's amazing.

 

[DieH@rd]

Downgrade total!

Spoiler

OMG

 

[jiggle]

Wowow

Spoiler

WOW

 

[Systems_id]

I think the model is there already, the biggest difference being the lighting conditions, very soft lighting in the "better" one VS very bright and harsh in the one you posted, with the white bleed obscuring skin detail.
Other than that and the heavy blur used on the hair I think it's there.

Isn't that pic taken from a build from way back in October?

 

[Raistlin]

So PS3 already has it's oldman.gif.

I was not expecting that to happen so early in its life. Bravo NT - you guys continue to impress!

 

[Holtz]

Incredible. Just incredible. I love the look of this game.

 

[Y2Kev]

She looks a LOT different than when we first saw her.

 

[fortified_concept]

Seriously the CG sequences should be limited to crazy battle scenes and explosions only if PS3 can do that in an ingame cutscene.
It's ****ing amazing.

 

[CrushDance]

Anyone good pics of Nariko?

 

[bud]

Anyone good pics of Nariko?

are you somehow implying that you are going to look at those pics while playing with your crushy?

 

[CrushDance]

are you somehow implying that you are going to look at those pics while playing with your crushy?

No. I meant "" not "" typo. I want some wallpaper ones. I swear...*hehe* just some walplaper ^^

 

[LuCkymoON]

This to me looks better than even the one that ships with 8800 card, I forgot the name. It definitely blows away those older ones, like Dawn.

you must've had a pretty crappy video card back then to say that.

 

[Lord Error]

you must've had a pretty crappy video card back then to say that.

I'm talking about running those on latest graphics cards. I can run Dawn at least on full detail level :lol (and in fact I did a few weeks ago). It doesn't look that great anymore. Shaders used in it are thing of the past by now. Dawn is what? 4-5 years old now?

 

[Surreal]

Looks like an oil painting.

 

[LuCkymoON]

I'm talking about running those on latest graphics cards. I can run Dawn at least on full detail level :lol (and in fact I did a few weeks ago). It doesn't look that great anymore. Shaders used in it are thing of the past by now. Dawn is what? 4-5 years old now?

I haven't seen any of the latest Nvidia demos, but Dawn was great for it's time. That's why I can easily see this capture of Nariko being rendered on any of the latest cards.

 

[BamYouHaveAids]

I guess you haven't seen the benchmarks that ship with Nvidia cards. That's about on par with this.

It looks nice, but not beyond the capabilities of weaker PC cards. Would have been more impressive if it was actually in game, though.

Guess we will have to wait till the next, next gen for that.

Yeah once you take into account that this is a cutscene it really isn't that impressive, lower end of the next gen spectrum, now that I think of it it's ps2 quality really, absolutely nothing the ps1 couldn't handle, snes might have chugged a little but this definately isn't out of it's capabilities.

 

[Y2Kev]

Yeah once you take into account that this is a cutscene it really isn't that impressive, lower end of the next gen spectrum, now that I think of it it's ps2 quality really, absolutely nothing the ps1 couldn't handle, snes might have chugged a little but this definately isn't out of it's capabilities.

:lol

WTF are people doing in this thread? That image looks un****ing believable.

Nostromo, go back to the factory and get us a widescreen version.

 

[fortified_concept]

Yeah once you take into account that this is a cutscene it really isn't that impressive, lower end of the next gen spectrum, now that I think of it it's ps2 quality really, absolutely nothing the ps1 couldn't handle, snes might have chugged a little but this definately isn't out of it's capabilities.

:lol Seriously though some people are trying too hard here. That pic may be the best I've seen from an ingame character model ever (cutscene ones included).

 

[luca_29_bg]

a this question

"Hi Mr. I just want to ask if, All those effects will take place IN GAME in the same way you did on this picture from Cutscene?, This quality is going to be the exactly the same IN-GAME on the Final Product?"

This answer


The DOF in-game is good but not THAT good. Better specular on the eyes is something we are working on and other techy bits to help improve the lighting response on the blend-shapes.

If these come together, then the layman should not be able to distinguish that screenshot from the final result. Fingers crossed!!!

Tameem

This from ninja theory forum

http://www.ninjatheory.com/forums/showthread.php?t=840&page=3

Believe

 

[CrushDance]

: (

 

[Zen]

Downgrade total!

Spoiler

OMG

From the hyperbolic "Sony Prophet" way back when he made all of his comments.

The extra development time is making a world of difference. Some of you saw Heavenly Sword at E3 and it looked pretty good... that is, it looked like your typical 360 game. The team has been hard at work piling on layers and layers of detail and as of right now, it looks like ****ing Advent Children (you thought Metal Gear looked good? You gotta see this). It's also being given a God of War type violence upgrade, since they found out the graphical realism and brutality of the combat (bloodless though it was) was getting it a Mature anyway. Seriously, it will blow your mother****ing mind (although it’s sad that having really awesome graphics influences the ESRB ratings these days). The current release target is March.

http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=27071