26-05-2004 22:01									#1
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'nuff said

BTW: America Army will use it too in future versions.

quote: Visual Features * 64-bit color High Dynamic Range rendering pipeline. The gamma-correct, linear color space renderer provides for immaculate color precision while supporting a wide range of post processing effects such as light blooms, lenticular halos, and depth-of-field. * Support for all modern per-pixel lighting and rendering techniques including normal mapped, parameterized Phong lighting; virtual displacement mapping; light attenuation functions; pre-computed shadow masks; and pre-computed bump-granularity self-shadowing using spherical harmonic maps. * Advanced Dynamic Shadowing. Unreal Engine 3 provides full support for three shadow techniques: o Dynamic stencil buffered shadow volumes supporting fully dynamic, moving light sources casting accurate shadows on all objects in the scene. o Dynamic characters casting dynamic soft, fuzzy shadows on the scene using 16X-oversampled shadow buffers. o Ultra high quality and high performance pre-computed shadow masks allow offline processing of static light interactions, while retaining fully dynamic specular lighting and reflections. * All of the supported shadow techniques are visually compatible and may be mixed freely at the artist's discretion, and may be combined with colored attenuation functions enabling properly shadowed directional, spotlight, and projector lighting effects. * Powerful material system, enabling artists to create arbitrarily complex realtime shaders on-the-fly in a visual interface that is comparable in power to the non-realtime functionality provided by Maya. * The material framework is modular, so programmers can add not just new shader programs, but shader components which artists can connect with other components on-the-fly, resulting in dynamic composition and compilation of shader code. * Full support for seamlessly interconnected indoor and outdoor environments with dynamic per-pixel lighting and shadowing supported everywhere. * Artists can build terrain using a dynamically-deformable base height map extended by multiple layers of smoothly-blended materials including displacement maps, normal maps and arbitrarily complex materials, dynamic LOD-based tessellation, and vegetation layers with procedurally-placed meshes. Further, the terrain system supports artist-controlled layers of procedural weathering, for example, grass and vegetation on the flat areas of terrain, rock on high slopes, and snow at the peaks. * Volumetric environmental effects including height fog and physically accurate distance fog.

Needles to say no current vidcard can handle it.

	26-05-2004 22:03									#2
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Some pictures for the lazy.

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	26-05-2004 22:08									#8
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Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

Of course the artists have to work harder than ever now

-Jam

	26-05-2004 23:04									#9
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I can`t believe it!

	26-05-2004 23:28									#10
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That looks absolutley gorgeous...

	26-05-2004 23:47									#11
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Impressive.

I think it's the textures or 'skinning' that really makes it shine, however. It actually reminds me of the infinity engine games that use really high-res artwork, only applied to a 3d mesh.


Not to trivialise the lighting and polycount, ect... but those are just more subtle.

	27-05-2004 17:33									#12
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it looks fantastic but really doesn't seem a massive leap except in the textures. i think i read somewhere you need a video card with 512mb or 1gb or ram to run it with full textures... it just seems like diminishing returns for me lately in regards to graphics. i hope with this next generation graphics will come to more of a stand still and gameplay will be the defining property of a game.

	28-05-2004 06:27									#13
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I've seen too many jaw-dropping tech demos turn out to be disappointing final products to get excited about this one. Those pictures sure are pretty, though.

	28-05-2004 15:14									#14
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Wow, looks awesome.

	28-05-2004 16:37									#15
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Nothing on particles, mists, droplets, etc.?

	28-05-2004 16:44									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Jamski Of course the artists have to work harder than ever now -Jam

I was thinking the same thing, and then I started to wonder, how many fan-made mods would there be for a game with graphics like this?