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CryENGINE 3 Trailer

[Feb 26, 2010, 4:56 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Crytek Website has a new CryENGINE 3 demonstration with the super-geeky title: "Cascaded Light Propagation Volumes for Real Time Indirect Illumination." This consists of a paper in Adobe Acrobat format, a PowerPoint presentation, and a movie, described like this: "This I3D 2010 paper is a result of collaborative research with Carsten Dachsbacher. The LPV technique was extended to support secondary occlusion and multiple bounces. The propagation scheme is improved and compared to similar Discrete Ordinate Methods. Also this paper describes many additional application and implementation details." The trailer shows off what this means to the end-user, as it demonstrates some impressive real-time lighting and shadow rendering in Crytek's next-generation engine. Thanks inCrysis. The HD version of the clip is embedded here.

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Re: CryENGINE 3 Trailer

Feb 27, 2010, 12:15

Beamer

I just think games empower the player too much these days. Make us work hard to survive in these worlds.

1) Isn't the point empowering gamers?
2) Oh, so in other words you fully support when CryTek lets army grunts see you, in the dark, prone in the grass, hundreds of yards away, and pick you off with a pistol, preventing you from lining up your sniper shot?

CryTek is continually pushing its engine further down the road and I welcome that innovation. I don't understand these lazy-minded individuals who can't appreciate that.

It's a costs v benefits argument. How many frames per second are we losing to get some of these minimal upgrades? Plenty. There aren't too many huge graphics breakthroughs left, and what's there is plenty costly. It requires more expensive hardware and gives us slower games that only look marginally better in motion yet play the same. This is why people wish game companies would start putting more effort into AI and physics, which is more noticeable, and wish engine companies would put more effort into usability and functionality, allowing more people to make more innovative games.




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Comment [quote="Beamer"Feb 27, 2010, 12:15]q[ I just think games empower the player too much these days. Make us work hard to survive in these worlds.]q 1) Isn't the point empowering gamers? 2) Oh, so in other words you fully support when CryTek lets army grunts see you, in the dark, prone in the grass, hundreds of yards away, and pick you off with a pistol, preventing you from lining up your sniper shot? q[CryTek is continually pushing its engine further down the road and I welcome that innovation. I don't understand these lazy-minded individuals who can't appreciate that.]q It's a costs v benefits argument. How many frames per second are we losing to get some of these minimal upgrades? Plenty. There aren't too many huge graphics breakthroughs left, and what's there is plenty costly. It requires more expensive hardware and gives us slower games that only look marginally better in motion yet play the same. This is why people wish game companies would start putting more effort into AI and physics, which is more noticeable, and wish engine companies would put more effort into usability and functionality, allowing more people to make more innovative games. [/quote]

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