Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

movento

Two movies of the technology behind the game(the Euphoria engine) have been released.Sorry for the dutch link,i couldn't really find it on an english site,but basicly they say what the movies are about.
Next gen Star Wars
IMO this gives a new meaning to "next-gen". Could be alot of fun messing with those stormtroopers ahah.

adam

DMI technology sounds awesome - I can't wait to get my hands on it. I spent a great deal of time last year investigating in to location based destruction so I can really appreciate this technology.

Mongrelman

Oh there is much fun to be had there.

ebagg

If the make the levels non-linear this is gonna be badass!

Wells

I understand they wanted to show off the breaking and dynamic actions of the stormtroopers, but those beams must have been made out of balsa wood that had been exposed to liquid nitrogen.

aesir

as an animator, this shit continues to scare me.

Fuse

You know to be honest, that dynamic ai presentation was really underwhelming, all it showed was that during the uncontrollable flailing of the extremities the joins on the hands are made to stick to an appropriate surface.

It looks more like ragdolled models with sticky substance on their hands :P

It's not as if the stormstroopers made any attemps to pull themselves up or grab on with the other hand for a more stable hold on the beam.

The dynamically destructible surface was pretty interesting though

KeyserSoze

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I understand they wanted to show off the breaking and dynamic actions of the stormtroopers, but those beams must have been made out of balsa wood that had been exposed to liquid nitrogen.

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Haha! Good point, but I think it's okay to sacrifice realism for awesomeness (in some cases).

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I think you have about as much to be afraid of as modelers do of procedural models/textures... that is to say, not very afraid at all. It's more likely that this sort of dynamic animation is going to be added to an animator's repertoire rather than replacing animators altogether.

rooster

splintering wood- the new bloom! soon we'll see games entirely set within wooden forts and spaceships.
Rainbow 6: Noahs Ark!

cant wait!

Marine

didn't hl2 have this? i remember something about splintering wood from a tech demo

Rick Stirling

Is it not just Natural Motion?

Edit. Yes.

Thegodzero

ahhh tech features that look and sound cool but can only be used in special cases. Every game has them, and every game uses them once and pimps the hell out of it. Remember red fraction?

Jesse Moody

I saw the E3 video and I can't wait for this game. I am a huge star wars fan and this looks good. I want to toss storm troopers and slam them into walls. Now that will be fun.

Joseph Silverman

Also, http://www.lucasarts.com/games/theforceunleashed/

Some cool concept art.

Asherr

lightsaber tonfa!

Joseph Silverman

Yeah, exactly. Shaak ti, too.

Toomas

Imagine how cool it will be like you will throw a nade and doors will blast in with beams falling yet the little flower pot in the corner remains intact.

Michael Knubben

Come on, everyone knows how much wood there is in starwars environments, right?
Deathstar? ALL wood, right there.
Are they actually including any other materials than wood?
The concepts seem to say so. And how does this work anyway? Are those wooden boards actually made out of that many polygons, to allow for the dynamic breaking? Are these models only loaded upon imminent contact with something that could break them, or what?

Seeing as how polycounts have some pretty low since normalmapping, this somehow seems like it'll be a huge hit on performance with little to no advantage to actual gameplay, allthough i realise my guesses aren't exactly official information.

Slum

so neat. saber batons!

Whargoul

If you've seen the longer version of the first video, they show Jar Jar in carbonite, and simulate lots of different materials: metal (dents & warps very nicely), jelly, crystal with stone statue on top, etc. Pretty cool stuff, I just wonder what the impact is - it always seems to stall for a second when it hits.

Yeah the Natural Motion stuff is pretty crap without some good animation layering. Slightly less limp ragdoll basically. If used subtly, it's nice (like a character putting their hands out to brace for a fall, etc).