Frostbyte 3 Feature Video

Anchang-Style

Yeah well just wanted to put the info here. A Feature Video about Frostbyte 3 Engine, enjoy
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9yVV6g3q7g"]Battlefield 4: Official Frostbite 3 Feature Video - YouTube[/ame]

CN.Kitsune

such a good and powerful looking set of tools, wish i could be alone in a room with it for a few days

the things i would make *insert sad sigh*

almighty_gir

but does it have a next gen dog?

no dog? no dice!

(see what i did there?)

looks awesome =]

switz

Why can't maya have things like this.. It isn't fair :[

aivanov

Well it's not like any of us are actually gonna get to use these tools, so video is pretty much just a hype fluff piece for anyone outside of EA.

ScudzAlmighty

golly.

Ark

Cryengine had most if not all this in 2007 when Crysis shipped.

Another pointless marketing video aimed at wowing folk with a engine they won't license or release as an SDK.

Justin Meisse

buncha curmudgeons

leleuxart

Ark wrote: »

Cryengine had most if not all this in 2007 when Crysis shipped.

Another pointless marketing video aimed at wowing folk with a engine they won't license or release as an SDK.

Yeah, while watching videos like this for "next-gen" engines, I can't help but think about how the free SDK has a good majority of the features already, with 3.5 on the horizon with even more. I think destruction has always been better in Frostbite though and with the newer updates on it, it looks even better. And the little details, like Parallax in the eye shader- I love it!

Shame we can't play around with the engine though. I wish more studios would at least package a dumbed down version of the engine for modding at least. Something more like Bethesda did, not so much another free SDK or UDK.

Isaiah Sherman

You can bitch all you want but that video still rustled my jimmies.

The combat on the water was awesome and I'm curious how they will follow through with their "levelution."

Bobby J Rice 3rd

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Bobby J Rice 3rd

It's dick swinging and well desearved dick swinging at that.

aajohnny

Impressive and a really awesome engine. Idc why they did it really its still cool to see new and innovative tech...

Jonas Ronnegard

Well probably to use the popularity of bf4 to promote other games that use frostbite 3

pretty smart and logical pr move i would say.

Anchang-Style

Point is just: even if CryEngine had all that already nothing used it. The water movement was nice but not part of anything since we never saw battles on water, destruction turned passive after crysis 1, you hardly ever saw characters in crysis 2. I think they should, at some point get a SDK out...didn't hurt Epic, but i guess it's not for licensed and only for inhouse use of DICE or EA.
I mean aside from BF 4 there is Battlefron, NFS, Mirrors Edge 2, Plants and Zombies...and according to rumors 7 other projects (there are rumors, that there are 7 other teams working at DICE).

Xoliul

Anchang-Style wrote: »

7 other teams working at DICE

7? Where did you read that?

JohnnyRaptor

damn that looks good..specially the water battle part looked gorgeous!

whats the specs needed for bf4 btw?

Anchang-Style

Anchang-Style wrote: »

Point is just: even if CryEngine had all that already nothing used it. The water movement was nice but not part of anything since we never saw battles on water, destruction turned passive after crysis 1, you hardly ever saw characters in crysis 2. I think they should, at some point get a SDK out...didn't hurt Epic, but i guess it's not for licensed and only for inhouse use of DICE or EA.
I mean aside from BF 4 there is Battlefron, NFS, Mirrors Edge 2, Plants and Zombies...and according to rumors 7 other projects (there are rumors, that there are 7 other teams working at DICE).

Can't find the thread right now was a thread on gaf (yeah thats why i said rumor) saying there are around 300 people in around 10 teams working at DICE.

shaderfx

switz wrote: »

Why can't maya have things like this.. It isn't fair :[

Which features in particular would be most useful?

(I guess "all" is fair, but if you can be more specific, it would be helpful)

osman

shaderfx wrote: »

Which features in particular would be most useful?

(I guess "all" is fair, but if you can be more specific, it would be helpful)

I wouldn't want to turn Maya into an editor, but to answer your question:
I'd love to have a powerful lighting system in Maya, like the one in Frostbite, enlighten from geomerics.

Zpanzer

osman wrote: »

I wouldn't want to turn Maya into an editor, but to answer your question:
I'd love to have a powerful lighting system in Maya, like the one in Frostbite, enlighten from geomerics.

Aren't powerful lighting systems just called render engines? V-Ray, Mental Ray, Arnold and the new breed of GPU renders :-)

BlvdNights

aivanov wrote: »

Well it's not like any of us are actually gonna get to use these tools, so video is pretty much just a hype fluff piece for anyone outside of EA.

See, videos like this make me wonder if they plan on spinning off frostbite into a licensed engines possibly.


Also, pigs fly.

Autocon

Made me want to make a level in Frostbite 3, but since I cant the video is DICE trying show how big of a "car" they have.

osman

Zpanzer wrote: »

Aren't powerful lighting systems just called render engines? V-Ray, Mental Ray, Arnold and the new breed of GPU renders :-)

True, I meant to say realtime lighting.

Blaizer

man, watching this i'm more impatient to play BF4!

tadpole3159

I was waiting for the "download now!" bit at the end...I'm all sad now