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Unreal 3 Tech Demo
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Unreal 3 Tech Demo // Roundtable
Post by rjeff // Feb 22, 2008, 2:48pm
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Well Transient brought the Crysis2 engine to light...go and peep at the Unreal 3 tech demo..wow is one word for it.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/179565.html |
Post by transient // Feb 22, 2008, 4:29pm
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I was commenting more about the authorship side of things than the technology behind it. U3 does look cool, though, especially with the new PhysX tech.
I actually thought matinee was probably the most interesting part of this video as far as authoring was concerned. Kind of like a real-time Premiere. |
Post by parva // Feb 23, 2008, 12:27am
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epic can view at a longer history and maybe more knowledge as crytek but crytek is the first company I know who integrated many new shaders (some known from the shader and gpugem books).
Interesting to know if the ambient occlusion from unreal3 will based upon the
same method like crysis, means scene based.
Advantage, it's fast (can be integrated even with Pixel Shader 2)
but screen based brings also disadvantage like the inaccuracy of occlusion in direct view path.
I have no doubt that the kind of physics we see (also in the crysis ad copy),
would be possible to bring over to truespace.
It all depends if tS gets it or not. |
Post by splinters // Feb 23, 2008, 3:07am
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And the plot thickens;
http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/opinion/blogpost/2449264/
So, microsoft buying the Unreal engine, buying Caligari, buying smaller developers, giving away free development software. Epic team with Nvidia to show off the Geforce 6/7 features of the engine...
Nvidia buy Mental Image for it's rendering technology, then they buy Ageia for it's real time physics.
A few years down the line.....Nvidia run all the realtime hardware while MS have all the software....far fetched?? I don't think so.
If I hear news of Ati's demise or buyout then I am going looking for those aliens too. |
Post by transient // Feb 23, 2008, 3:37am
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I actually think this is a bit far fetched, although there is a lot going on at the moment.
If this is true, Microsoft are just doing with epic what they did with Bungie, although I suspect there won't be any get-out clause this time.
It's also not the first time a big developer has teamed with a hardware company to show off tech (Valve and ATI spring to mind). If MS bought AMD then maybe I would get excited (or to be honest worried).
Microsoft have gone mental lately, maybe they're worried about google? They should be, google have been calling the shots lately. And people don't seem to hate them for it. |
Post by splinters // Feb 23, 2008, 3:46am
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You never know....;) |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 23, 2008, 3:55am
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Yes, having a reactive "Meat Cube" was one of the first on the list in my priorities. :D |
Post by parva // Feb 23, 2008, 5:17am
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I doubt that Microsoft buy Epic :D |
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