Differences between UE4 and CE3 might not be visible at first hand just by looking at trailers.
I think that the Global Illumination in UE4 is much more complex (and expensive in terms of processing power required).
I recommend all of you guys read the in-depth article on Digital Foundry about UE4.
link
If someone has a similar link to share about the ins and outs of CE3, I'd be grateful
Why do you think AMD invented "AMD optimised tessellation/level" setting in CCC. It's a mode that limits the amount of tessellation that's being done in game, from 64X (normal amount) down to 2x, so your AMD card does not struggle with games that use tessellation.That reason is rather simple, 1st generations AMD cards are extremely bad at handling tessellation and that's coming from someone who is extremely pleased with his own 5850
It's a shame people keep linking to that article written by someone who clearly had no idea, or limit at best, how tessellation worked, let alone how CE3 handles it and then draw the conclusion that Crytek was pleasing nVidia instead of understanding that AMD was the one struggling.
Im just gonna leave this here...
Not sure what you mean, but in case of Crysis 2, it's only first generation AMD cards that struggle with it (tessellation), unless you turn down the "level setting" in the CCC.
Yes for magazine shots, they always use a higher poly count model, not sure why just those and not all screenshots.
In ten years graphics have gone from this:
To this trailer.
Real-Time Volumetric Cloud Shadows - This is the first time they've been volumetric shadows (interact with fog). The cloud shadows are also now fully deferred and projected on all objects in the environment and not just the terrain.
Pixel Accurate Displacement Mapping - We'll have more info on this at a later date. The important thing to know is that it does NOT use tessellation and no other tech is able to do this yet.
Tessellated Vegetation - Until now, vegetation hasn't been able to be tessellated due to some limiting (albeit other awesome tech!) factors which we've managed to overcome for an all-encompassing solution.
Lens flares - A host of new flare types that react in different scenarios, dynamic & artist defined.
Procedural HDR Flares & Shapes - Until now these haven't been shaped (like bokeh effects, rather than just a bloomy circle) and are procedurally processed in real time.
3rd Gen GI - Now processes glossy reflections.
Water Caustics - Caustics now process above (and improved below) water level, reflecting on nearby surfaces.
Volumetric Fog Shadows - These may look like sunshafts but they're not, they're shadows being received in fog. Sunshafts only appear when you look at the sun. Volumetric Fog Shadows are evident from all angles and you can also follow the outline of the shadow they produce from the caster all the way through the fog to the ground.
Area Lights - More info on this at a later stage but no one else is using area lights like this in games yet either.
Particle FX Lighting - The particle system in C3 underwent optimisation and received improved approximation for lighting details so we can do more, better.
Cloth & Vegetation simulation - The vegetation system has undergone backend revamping to allow better interaction with the world & players more realistically and to perform better than ever before. Cloth also reacts more realistically with wind and bending.
This is just some of the tech we're working on here and we're excited to talk about more in the future
Same file, a few posts back: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=40864633&postcount=288
Ah, sry, didn´t see it
They really nailed the DoF at 00:46. If it was any other dev I would have thought it was CG.
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