ati realtiem demo, interesting

arshlevon

interesting stuff from a new interactive ati demo, lighting and post effects look pretty ace.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/AboutAMD/0,,51_52_15438_15106,00.html?redir=cin01

pior

Aaaaw- there I was, happily thinking that the whole 'Whatever2.0' crap talk was a thing of the past, buried down deep with 2007.


:P

I there a link to the latest video somewhere? Only found this http://game.amd.com/us-en/unlock_ruby_videos.aspx?vid=1

Can't wait to see the vid... Started to watch the dev interviews, and hearing things like 'photorealism is the pinacle of the game industry' bored me to death!

Go Mirror's edge go

arshlevon

i think there is just that first video on the link i provided, its only 11 seconds i think the full video should be out soon. we got some leaked shots at work, don't think i can post them.

Jonathan

2.0 overload

Hoping ATI's new offering spurs more competition in the GPU market.

MoP

Heh, I wasn't expecting to see my boss's face just below that link.

Video clip looks pretty cool, I want to see the full-res, full-length thing!

CrazyButcher

the new ati card is definetely looking nice, high performance at less watts and less price than the newest nvidia. About time ati strikes back

Japhir

i don't think better hardware is needed, if you look at this stuff: http://www.projectoffset.com/
just stumbled on their website yesterday and was baffled by their graphics. (check out the video section).

East

Project Offset looked impressive back in the day, but I think it's falling behind a little..

That ATI video needs a larger resolution version, though. Now it just makes me think they are hiding something :P

Davision3D

Yeah, i allready a saw some footage from that engine, cant share that though. But here is an interview with that guy that programmend the engine, there is also some cool footage in that interview:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1529569052/bctid1534625417

Pretty crazy stuff when you think about that its all rendered in realtime with only a single pc!

Mister Sentient

Photorealism in 4-5 years?! As an artist in the industry I find that prospect laughable. Where is the manpower to create all of these photorealistic assets going to materialise from? Are budgets about to triple? I certainly don't see that happening.

arshlevon

MoP wrote: »

Heh, I wasn't expecting to see my boss's face just below that link.

Video clip looks pretty cool, I want to see the full-res, full-length thing!

i want to know what your "top secret" project is..

rage: enemy territory?

Murdoc

Offset was more impressive back in the day because it was all graphics tech demo with no game behind it.

Now they are building a game around it the graphics are getting scaled down more and more and coming back to earth.

Ninjas

YouTube link where he talks about how his cubemap is realtime:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/231380.html

Seems like complete BS

StrangeFate

It may be all perfectly doable, their scene is just a single street with some Background buildings as you can see in the video.

As with any other tech demo, it looks great in small scale but probably wont be of much use in a game... unless you turn some options down and leave out some features... which probably will end up looking like everything else out there.

adam

Render to texture tech can be pretty cheap, I don't see how a real-time cubemap is impossible or anything.

Neat tech.

Ninjas

If you watch the "realtime" video closely you will see that the camera is INSIDE a cubemapped cube, not a game environment. In fact, it looks almost exactly like google maps streetview. Where is the changing reflections and highlights? When he zooms or pans, why doesn't the perspective correct? It is because it's totally fake. All he is doing is adjusting some post settings in realtime

Davision3D

For those that are interrested, here is some more info about the AMD graphicchips and the engine:

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38145/135/
100% ray-traced pipeline!? Sounds pretty stunning to me.