Luminous Studio tech - E3 2012

PolyHertz · Jun 2012

This looks so impressive I thought it deserved its own thread. This is Squares new tech for the Next-Gen systems for those that don't know (ie PS4 / XBox720). These are from a tech demo they're showing off behind closed doors during E3:

Source: http://www.famitsu.com/news/201206/06015843.html

Slum · Jun 2012

That....is good

Jesse Moody · Jun 2012

Yeah that looks pretty damn sexy!!!

Orangeknight · Jun 2012

You guys missed this

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVX0OUO9ptU&feature=player_embedded"]Agni's Philosophy -- FINAL FANTASY REALTIME TECH DEMO - YouTube[/ame]

boyluya · Jun 2012

Two Listen · Jun 2012

Crapped mah pants.

R3D · Jun 2012

I think CG for movies is going to go more and more realtime.

biofrost · Jun 2012

I about fell out of my chair! Best thing in the video I think was all the strains of hair in that guys beard.

xvampire · Jun 2012

and yes , they are hiring :
http://www.agnisphilosophy.com/en/index.html
http://www.square-enix.com/na/careers/getech/

daphz · Jun 2012

noooooo way. that was GORGEOUS. those guys are pulling somekind of magic

gavku · Jun 2012

Pretty, but some horrible camera work...

Joshua Stubbles · Jun 2012

I didn't see anything spectacular in the art. It's all the technical details that made that look good. Better post processing, tons of particles, great hair simulation and physics. The art itself looked like current gen standards, which is great. Current standards are perfectly fine, so long as we can toss those extra layers of technical winsauce on top of it.

bounchfx · Jun 2012

Holy shit. WHAT? That was real time?? The hair! the cloth! by far the most impressive thing yet, moreso than 1313 and watch dogs imo, except this had nothing that looked like in game. if they could get it playable keeping the same fidelity I will gladly accept this as our next gen ceiling.

Gestalt · Jun 2012

Joshua Stubbles wrote: »

I didn't see anything spectacular in the art. It's all the technical details that made that look good. Better post processing, tons of particles, great hair simulation and physics. The art itself looked like current gen standards, which is great. Current standards are perfectly fine, so long as we can toss those extra layers of technical winsauce on top of it.

That isn't just 'technical winsauce' added on top through post effects; that is some seriously impressive lighting tech. There are so many materials that are pulled off so amazingly well, so many different types of lighting, crazy good radiosity, crazy good hdr, an amazing sense of realistic exposure.

I was pretty floored by this tech demo (which is what it is, a tech demo), and for me the vastness of detail made it less about viewing someone else's isolated art work and more about viewing what felt like an actual place.

Rico · Jun 2012

Real time?? The hell...

Swizzle · Jun 2012

Too much shakycam, tons of pixels popping everywhere, annoying Japanese rape girl screams.

3/10 would not bang

aivanov · Jun 2012

Lol, Swizzle.

Agree on the shakycam - you have motion blur, we get it; there's plenty of other ways to show it than making it hard to make out the rest of the scene and its fidelity (which is what a tech demo is *supposed* to do.)

Hazardous · Jun 2012

I love you Square Enix. 99 out of 10.

ikken · Jun 2012

^ she looks like 40 y.o. sophie ellis bextor pulling off a "no make up" look, meanwhile rescheduling an ongoing botox with her beautician imo :<

video looks awesome
I wonder what their actual games are gonna look.
the wizards of visual works have done some magic though.

bounchfx · Jun 2012

I remember FF13 pretty much hitting what their tech demo was. Killzone is another story, but KZ3 still came out looking phenomenal. Can't wait to see the real 'game'. I already love the character/environment ideas and the music.

iniside · Jun 2012

Swizzle · Jun 2012

Repeating feather texture.

-6 points

-3/10 wouldn't bang in a million years

ErichWK · Jun 2012

That..................hair.

Goeddy · Jun 2012

so do you guys still remember the killzone 2 realtime intro?
...just saying

Del · Jun 2012

Does anybody remember when they announced a little game called Final Fantasy Versus, in 2006 and it still has no release date?

Just sayin

conte · Jun 2012

ambershee · Jun 2012

Just remember it's a real-time render (they never even said it runs at an interactive framerate), and so it doesn't represent game quality.

It does look bloody awesome, on the other hand.

r_fletch_r · Jun 2012

Swizzle wrote: »

Too much shakycam, tons of pixels popping everywhere, annoying Japanese rape girl screams.

3/10 would not bang

LOL

ambershee: nice to see whats down the road though isn't it.

oglu · Jun 2012

little bit maya...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Q9xhFpuIMX4#t=112s

glottis8 · Jun 2012

wow... this is the kinda of news that really turn around the direction of game capabilities. Looks really cool! I had no idea what was going on... but holy smokes was that cool haha

mLichy · Jun 2012

.............holy FUCK

odium · Jun 2012

Doesn't matter how it looks, to be fair. If I want to look at something sexy, I'll pull the pants off my misses. Thing is, not only is that hot, but she hasn't disapointed me in the gameplay for the last god knows how many years, either. Know wut im sayin'?

For me, the last good FF was VII, and I guess thats just because I never played IX. Having put as many hours as I could bare into XIII, I haven't got much faith left that they know what made the game good in the first place

glottis8 · Jun 2012

I thought xii was fun. I liked IX, and i played VIII before VII. I love Xenogears and Legend of the Dragoon better than the other ones tho... VII is the best.

walreu · Jun 2012

Uu sexy graphics, i wouldn't mind playing games looking like that.

Alberto Rdrgz · Jun 2012

what the hair?! that is not real!

BlvdNights · Jun 2012

Swizzle wrote: »

Too much shakycam, tons of pixels popping everywhere, annoying Japanese rape girl screams.

3/10 would not bang

/sp/artans unite!

Also that is pretty damn good looking. Now they just need to make a good final fantasy again.

ZacD · Jun 2012

Goeddy wrote: »

so do you guys still remember the killzone 2 realtime intro?
...just saying

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-4HNmuEAKg"]Killzone 2 PlayStation 3 Trailer - Official E3 2005 - YouTube[/ame]

7 years ago

besides all the particles and vfx it looks like current gen game.

BlvdNights · Jun 2012

^ This

Launch games for the new consoles aren't going to look as good as this tech demo, but a few years down the road they might.

Gestalt · Jun 2012

BlvdNights wrote: »

^ This

Launch games for the new consoles aren't going to look as good as this tech demo, but a few years down the road they might.

One thing that's promising though is that they have shown this demo in real-time, being manipulated in Maya (I believe it was revealed the killzone 2 demo wasn't actually real-time).

(the vid if you missed it)
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9xhFpuIMX4"]Square Enix Luminous Engine demo 2 iPhone - YouTube[/ame]

dtschultz · Jun 2012

Bring it on! That looks amazing. All those fx, shaders and lighting. The geo for the environments (from what I can tell looks pretty comparable to Uncharted 3, but the lighting and shading on those same objects looks sweet.

glottis8 · Jun 2012

I am still waiting for tomorrow to see what Unreal 4 has in store :)I feel the tech demo of it will be something similar to this.

Swizzle · Jun 2012

BlvdNights wrote: »

/sp/artans unite!

I don't know what this means. I was just being a douchebag.

Neolight · Jun 2012

pretty exciting

Hazardous · Jun 2012

im retarded.

xvampire · Jun 2012

ahhh youtube comment, it is always laughable to see someone compare some platform based on screen maximum resolution ;p

teaandcigarettes · Jun 2012

Technically, it looked amazing. I'm glad to see Japanese companies finally pushing some nice tech.

However, the voice acting, writing and camera work made it feel like watching a clip from a B movie. I don't mean to sound overly negative, but something about Square's modern style really puts me off.

Fuse · Jun 2012

What's with the recent obsession with the Brazilian Favelas ?

Ace-Angel · Jun 2012

OK, did I just see Shadows being 'pulled' back on a shader level for the artist? Does this mean Half-Lambert isn't anymore a case of 'no shadows, only Diffuse term'!?

artstream · Jun 2012

Del wrote: »

Does anybody remember when they announced a little game called Final Fantasy Versus, in 2006 and it still has no release date?

Just sayin

^^^^ This. Seriously, what the hell?

ikken · Jun 2012

^ FF XIII was in development since early 2004 if that says anything. I'm personally rather glad than not that versus team is not pressed by deadlines right now.

pior · Jun 2012

And then the cinematic fades out ... the camera pulls back ... and it's time to push that one analog stick forward, making that girl run down a linear corridor like a retarded 12 year old with a stick up her ass.

(unless proven otherwise

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Luminous Studio tech - E3 2012

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