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Unreal Engine 4

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REZ said:
Looks amazing, though I can't afford a CRAY :(.

Think about it.. there will be a day when actual gameplay looks like that.
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Of course games will look like that sooner or later. But not next month. The engine isn't finished and it could take some time until games using this engine come out. And if your PC can't run it the current consoles definitely can't run it. So minimum two years before it really hits us, who knows what hardware is out 'till then.

And the good thing about this using C++ instead of UnrealScript is: C++ is one of the most important and most common scripting languages. So more people will know how to script for this engine and more people are willing to learn because this skill can be applied to any programming to task not just games.
 
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thats actually quite good then. When the first releases of crysis came out it was running on multiple computers with multiple video cards in each.


Again though, the industry needs to streamline the development process which has been ballooning for years. It seems like they've made some changes toward that effect here.
 
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Particles for water is still ridiculous, imo, but they introduced "flow maps" in the UDK, which is, I guess, what was used to make the lava in the video look so smooth and convincing.

The video doesn't look like much compared to certain CGI effects in movies but the fact that this kind of fidelity (e.g. the flowing lava, the perfect lighting - in real-time no less, the movie-like post-processing...) is brought down to a manageable level, so you don't have to have a team of artists working on a couple of seconds of footage of flowing lava for a month or hire a highly specialized CGI fire and smoke effects studios to make a burning building look convincing - like it's necessary for CGI in movies - but you can just make that happen in your game with relative ease is incredible.

And what they're running it on is a joke too for an engine of the future! You'd think they would just crank up the detail in a hardware-destroying showcase map and let it run on some super-computer for the promo, assuring us that by the time we even get our hands on anything that's made on this engine that's going to be somewhat acceptable hardware... But nope. The degree of accessibility they seem to be shooting for here is astounding.
 
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Murphy said:
Particles for water is still ridiculous, imo, but they introduced "flow maps" in the UDK, which is, I guess, what was used to make the lava in the video look so smooth and convincing.

The video doesn't look like much compared to certain CGI effects in movies but the fact that this kind of fidelity (e.g. the flowing lava, the perfect lighting - in real-time no less, the movie-like post-processing...) is brought down to a manageable level, so you don't have to have a team of artists working on a couple of seconds of footage of flowing lava for a month or hire a highly specialized CGI fire and smoke effects studios to make a burning building look convincing - like it's necessary for CGI in movies - but you can just make that happen in your game with relative ease is incredible.

And what they're running it on is a joke too for an engine of the future! You'd think they would just crank up the detail in a hardware-destroying showcase map and let it run on some super-computer for the promo, assuring us that by the time we even get our hands on anything that's made on this engine that's going to be somewhat acceptable hardware... But nope. The degree of accessibility they seem to be shooting for here is astounding.
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Movies using a game engine instead of CGI for their special effects would be great. The costs would be greatly reduced. But is that really possible?
 
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Reise said:
Gib Unreal 3 plox.
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Yeah.. no.

As someone who loved Unreal, i do not want the Epic of today touching it with a ten foot pole, they already ruined UT, so let's not incourage them..

Sorry, but the Epic we once knew is dead and burried, Sweeney might still make a decent engine, but as a games developer.. they have become that creepy uncle that gets sh**faced at the family reunion and blurts out "A lapdance is so much better when the stripper is crying" out of nowhere.
 
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