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The most technically-advanced game for each year
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Really? I remenber I first saw such thing in Ryse.
LOD selection based on average triangle size gives the extra benefits of reducing aliasing, and it's not something people quite care about until this gen.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Digital Foundry posted a pretty good retrospective on Daytona USA a few months ago. The side-by-side comparisons to its home ports as well as other games from around the year of its release really underline just how many steps ahead of the curve that it was.
Triggerhappytel
Member
But it's most outright impressive, not based on hardware capabilities. In which case Conker would never win against PC and Xbox games.
Well, thats not something an end user would ever notice, impossible to notice WHY its scaling. Some engines just outright skip rendering small triangles for example. Reducing aliasing is not the only reason, its also for shading reasons. Small triangles are very inefficient, its just not the number of them that counts.
edit: for people who like to read about such things: https://www.g-truc.net/post-0662.html
Really? It works fine for the style, but material and reflection model seems technically about the least interesting aspect of KZ2's graphics.
As far as I can tell from the game and their presentations, metals are no different than dielectrics (with parameters just being roughness and intensity), and the BRDF is phong-based.
It doesn't seem like anything special for 2009.
I agree. The procedural generation is far beyond what anyone else has accomplished.
Sucks it mostly all looked the same.
Considering the scope of the universe and the size of Hello Games it's not really that suprising. I would imagine that would be less of a tech issue and more of a workforce/budget issue.
KeyChainDude
Member
Is it safe to say Horizon Zero Dawn takes the cake this year? Still many months ahead to judge but damn...
BigEmil
Junior Member
Within its hardware range yes very impressive what they got out of old cheap pre-2013 hardware
Whoa, somebody changed the config settings and created a map to showcase the graphics fidelity that the engine is capable of? You're right, that totally disqualifies it, it might as well be pre-rendered and photoshopped.
Edit: Eh sorry for the unnecessary snark, but come on, what a weird aggressively pedantic response that was.
crisdecuba
Member
Hrmm since the topic is most technically advanced game, I think that would somewhat disqualify it. If it was most technically advanced implementation of an engine, then it would make sense.
I also think you're reading too much aggressiveness into their post.
anothertech
Member
Can star citizen count when it's not released for another few years?
Nah. Can't use modded shit and say it's in game shots now, be real
anothertech
Member
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If someone is interested CIG released new video of their improved LOD blending tech
https://giant.gfycat.com/DimpledCelebratedAsiansmallclawedotter.webm
Full video: https://youtu.be/q0OXR8MPkUY?t=785
https://giant.gfycat.com/DimpledCelebratedAsiansmallclawedotter.webm
Full video: https://youtu.be/q0OXR8MPkUY?t=785
icecold1983
Member
Looks off. Like everything is being shrunken/sucked into the center. Cool tho
Dictator93
Member
I think that is just an optical illusion or some moire pattern interpretted in the brain.
Kinda cool to see a moon from another moon with cloud cover.
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/media/s4a9vvvybgniur/webm/ATV_-EP331-10-SEC-CLIP.webm
I'm the one being aggressive here? Like what? I wasn't even responding to you in that post.
Point is, it's not what the game looks like at stock settings OR during any level. If you are going to talk about how the game looks with modded cvars and custom maps because "the engine is capable of it" then that's fine but it does not mean this is how the game will look if you were to load up a random mission from Crysis and turn up the settings to V. high the game. The config settings has pretty big effect on the graphics and it's not just "some config settings" considering just how much you can change in the cvars.
Most if not all games can do a lot more than what you see because the engine is capable of doing a lot more. It's just that those games won't allow you to change configs as much as Crysis. As such we have to draw a baseline when comparing one technology a to another and that baseline is stock engine with stock settings. For example, Uncharted 4 has issues with its shadows and motion blur but I'm sure the engine is capable of having better implementation of those, but that does not mean we can't say that the implementation as seen in the base game is poor. Or how about downsampled shots for games? At the end of the day the engine is capable of doing that but you won't pass it off as an accurate representation of what the game is like now would you?
And please read my post again, especially this part. Nothing you say is something that I already didn't mention in my post.