NullPointer
Member
And yet I still remember vividly staring up at that Morrowind sky for days and wondering "how the fuck is this even possible?".
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Crysis 3 - CryEngine3 Tech Trailer
- Thread starter pauljeremiah
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This really shows off what's going to be the MEAT of next-gen. It's not going to be about graphics alone. Next-gen is going to be about fully-dynamics systems that allow for fully dynamic worlds and that's what I'm excited about. I'm sick of this static bullshit.
If you're looking forward to just graphics then I think you're going to be disappointed because the leap in graphics probably wont be as big as you want it to....not to say that the graphics wont impress.
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If you're looking forward to just graphics then I think you're going to be disappointed because the leap in graphics probably wont be as big as you want it to....not to say that the graphics wont impress.
MMMMMMMMMMM
LightofRohan
Member
My good! Real time displacement maps. Yipes.
Slow down graphics! Let me get out of school first...
Slow down graphics! Let me get out of school first...
Just for comparison, here is Unreal Tournament from 1999. Which I thought had one of the best static lighting engines ever made.
In fact, it's the only engine I can think of that included prebaked ambient occlussion, which was absent from UE2, and didn't show up again until Crytek introduced it with realtime AO in 2007.
Whats funny is that UT actually had a real primitive tessellation also back when it was called Truform on ATI cards.
In fact, it's the only engine I can think of that included prebaked ambient occlussion, which was absent from UE2, and didn't show up again until Crytek introduced it with realtime AO in 2007.
Whats funny is that UT actually had a real primitive tessellation also back when it was called Truform on ATI cards.
The Praiseworthy
Member
MY GOD!!!
I want to see MORE games with this engine :O
I want to see MORE games with this engine :O
Did you read anything in that thread? That's the whole point in tessellation. It's supposed to overdo everything at pretty much no cost to performance. Tessellated geometry works very differently from regular geometry so your statement of "it makes no sense to tessellate *insert object*" is pretty off base. You cant count triangles from tessellated objects in the same way as you do regular geometry...the scaling is radically different.
Zombie James
Banned
That... doesn't really clear anything up. Even if it costs nothing in terms of performance, why would you tessellate something that's completely flat and looks exactly the same? The point of tessellation is to offer greater detail, yes? Why not tessellate something that would benefit from more polygons, like vegetation or character models?
Tessellation in Cry Engine 2 was just a testbed for the next engine. The devs admitted that the tessellation in Cry-Engine 2 wasn't up to snuff and that the implementation wasn't that great but look at that Cry Engine 3 video and tell me it didnt pay off
They are now tessellating the exact objects that you just listed...Tessellation in Cry Engine 2 was just a testbed for the next engine. The devs admitted that the tessellation in Cry-Engine 2 wasn't up to snuff and that the implementation wasn't that great but look at that Cry Engine 3 video and tell me it didnt pay off
There was no tessellation in CE2
Just for comparison, here is Unreal Tournament from 1999. Which I thought had one of the best static lighting engines ever made.
In fact, it's the only engine I can think of that included prebaked ambient occlussion, which was absent from UE2, and didn't show up again until Crytek introduced it with realtime AO in 2007.
Whats funny is that UT actually had a real primitive tessellation also back when it was called Truform on ATI cards.
OH Jesus, I remember building a machine with an AMD K6-2 (I think) and a Voodoo 3 just for Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament. I used to play Q3A instagib and run my own server on my machine. Had my own clan...damn.
And dat music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTpzm13JyxY
The Jason
Member
Oh baby. Thank you.
Crap, I slipped up. I meant CE3 and Crysis 2
They already stated that the implementation was borked.
Nah, this is Crytek. This is real. But it's probably running on 3 GTX 685s or something. I'm still reading the thread so correct me if it's been mentioned.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Pretty sure that's a POM glitch.
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Holy shit I never knew about TruForm.
not bad, eh?
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I'd be more interested in the realistic game on the beast computer.
Also, Crysis 3 apparently now qualifies as a tech demo. It's like 2005 all over again.
Poimandres
Member
Yes sir, looks sweet indeed.
Can't wait to pull the trigger on my new gaming rig later this year!
Can't wait to pull the trigger on my new gaming rig later this year!
piratepwnsninja
Member
Looks great, minus that bird at the beginning. The wing flapping animation was pretty bad. Toad was awesome though.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
My 680 or better GPU will be ready for next gen ports come early next year.
This looks great. I want to see a bit more environments but picturing a new FF run off this is pretty exciting.
This really shows off what's going to be the MEAT of next-gen. It's not going to be about graphics alone. Next-gen is going to be about fully-dynamics systems that allow for fully dynamic worlds and that's what I'm excited about. I'm sick of this static bullshit.
If you're looking forward to just graphics then I think you're going to be disappointed because the leap in graphics probably wont be as big as you want it to....not to say that the graphics wont impress.
MMMMMMMMMMM
This was my favorite part of the trailer by far. I've been looking forward to vegetation that moved more realistically. So hyped.
Tallshortman
Member
Hmm I wonder what hardware that demo ran on.
I would like to know this as well
Most likely a GTX680.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Tessellation used effectively works like that.
If the source detail is there in theory you should be able to see a human characters pores crafted with full polygonal detail, meanwhile as the camera pans out the character model loses that polygonal detail. Going from millions of polygons when close down to a manageable 40,000 when the camera is set further away from the character.
Used badly and some of the streaming issues encountered this past gen will seem quaint in comparison.
Yeah its marketing for their engine. Mechwarrior Online is one example of a F2P Cryengine 3 title.
KillerTravis
Banned
I agree. I would like to see this engine implementated on ALL types of genres. Platformers, acdventure games, RPGs, sports games, MMOs, puzzle games, visual novels, everything!
They're also licensing their engine to a bunch of Chinese F2P developers. I'm half expecting a Monster Hunter clone to emerge with these visuals sometime in the future.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Only one has competent art directors?
I like how they show all this and end up with the console boxarts on screen as well, that's just evil
you should be fine with one
you should be fine with one
Haha, I was expecting such a reply.
I'm not so sure given Crysis 2's performance on a 570 when using DX11 and hi-res textures. Of course, CE3 will have a little under two added years of optimisation under its belt by Feb. 2013, so who knows.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
I don't even have a PS3 and I had too.
Sentenza
Member
You are trying too hard.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Oh don't be angry.
It was a stupid joke. Not like I don't think Epic and Square have their moments.
Krappadizzle
Member
Let's hope.
I wonder when we can expect system requirements.
edit:
Found this: http://digitalbattle.com/crysis-3-system-requirements/
Don't know how reputable a source that is though. It seems like more of an educated, reasonable guess.
Thunder Monkey: The People's Person.
Run-M-Run
Member
Because it looks awesome!
My god this came out of the blue for me, I didn't realize it could look THAT good. :O
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Is it a thing to include sound cards in system requirements? I don't recall seeing it before.