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[tenchir]

The game running on my Radeon 9800 Pro looked the same with bit more jaggies.

 

[neptunes]

i wish I could own a computer that can play recent games at the highest setting.

 

[radios shipping overview]

Now is time to the 6800 heart on fire?

 

[XMonkey]

Looks like plasticy shit =(

 

[DaCocoBrova]

That looks awful. Nothing like what I just got done playing.

 

[Takuan]

Looks like plasticy shit =(

Agreed, and what doesn't look like plastic shit looks the same on my friend's Ti4200 (it doesn't run nearly as well, obviously, but still). I prefer Half Life 2's look over this.

 

[XMonkey]

HL2 seems to have a certain "grit" look to it. I think its mainly in the textures and the way they use lighting. The Unreal 3.0 engine does a great job at looking real, without the plastic gloss that Far Cry has. I can't wait for the games using it.

Also, the only thing I like in these Far Cry screens is the HDR lighting which HL2 will be using also.

 

[Pimpbaa]

I see those pics on a Radeon X800 thread, are you sure they are from a 6800?

 

[dark10x]

I really like the new lighting effects. The usage of displacement mapping in the first two pics looks pretty solid as well...

Of course, it's still Far Cry so it isn't as if there is any reason to get excited over it. I mean, it ALREADY looked incredible...that wasn't what needed help.

 

[SKluck]

Did they release the new displacement/normal/whateverthefuck mapping patch yet? Any ETA on that? It works on the 9800pro afaik, so I want to see it.

 

[pestul]

That lighting effect is both tacky and overused. R3xx cards can do it easily too.

 

[Dice]

The Unreal 3.0 engine does a great job at looking real, without the plastic gloss that Far Cry has.

Eh, it doesn't look like plastic but I do think it looks a bit like clay. Clay is better than plastic, but still kind of unnatural. Don't get me wrong, I'm still stupidfied by the technology, I am just waiting for it to be ultilized properly art-wise.

Of course, I'm pretty picky about things as it is. I don't like overly even-tone lighting that so many other people enjoy so much on X-Box. Sure it's real and not emulated, but it looks like florescent lighting to me, kind of static and boring.

 

[Error Macro]

Boy, I hope the next, next-generation of graphics engines are even better at normal mapping, and can maybe make everything look like paper mache!

 

[Pimpbaa]

The specular lighting (the shininess is not the normal mapping) on the characters in far cry are definitely out of whack. Their whole bodies have the same level of shininess which is the problem.