New 'Unlimited Detail' Screens Make Crysis 2 Look Dated

GB: "Yesterday we had reported about some screens for the upcoming ‘Unlimited Detail’ engine and initially we were not impressed. A few hours ago we got our hands on some new screens from ’Unlimited Detail’ engine which looks to be from the latest build."

[Fishy Fingers]

GamingBolts earlier (today) article: http://n4g.com/news/816789/...
"First Screens Of ‘Unlimited Detail’ Engine Are Far From Impressive"

What a crappy website...

[Mike_Tha_Hero]

Shoddy journalism at it's best. N4G is filled with this.

[evrfighter]

lol they're a flippin and a floppin.

I don't really participate in the exiling of gaming sites outside of hhg but it wasn't even a couple weeks ago where I said these guys won't ever be big because of their crappy journalism.

just going by the dudes comments further below I can tell this site is ran is arrogant turds who put their opinion higher than others because they run a no name site.

I'd rather take a jim sterling article more seriously than I would any other future aritcles from gaming bolt. Now I've given them some hits in the past. but just because Rashid Sayed is being a prick here at n4g. It tells me one thing.

GamingBolt manufactures articles for n4g and n4g only by using hhg tactics. I wish n4g offered a feature that would allow me to ignore web sites so that I'd never have to see them again.

[SilentNegotiator]

It's impressive, but so would be the computer capable of processing this, along with gameplay-related calculations.

[Heartnet]

They probably found a way around that :) Otherwise theyd be wasting there time and they obviously dont think they are :)

[Motion]

The level of detail does look impressive, I agree. The only problem with the tech is that the memory requirements are huge, and animation is incredibly difficult-- to the point that it's entirely impractical to use it as a game engine. It may get there someday, but in its current state its only good for static worlds.

[Roscoe3zz]

still looks like shit

[HeavenlySnipes]

I was trying to see what the hell was so impressive...

[milohighclub]

if you watch the vids they admit they aint artists, with proper artists this will be ground breaking tech!

[Heartnet]

Its the fact everything is in 3D and not some Plane or a skybox to give the Illusion Of 3D

[Miiikeyyy]

How does this look shit? the details are amazing. besides, give this to a game developer and we'd see way better stuff

[Mike_Tha_Hero]

Your avatar with that statement is win lol.

[PRHB HYBRiiD]

Homer is the boss

[theonlylolking]

The trees bark does look better than most.

[PS3ROCKS]

YMCA Yo Man Crazy Awesome

[Otheros00]

Looks like shit and would take gigabytes of data to move them a few frames. Crysis 1 leaves look better than that.

[CrimsonEngage]

Looks terrible imo. Try running that with actual players running around, particle effects and explosions, buildings falling down like in BF3 and keeping a steady frame rate. Not to mention animations. That little "world" they created had horrible lighting and nothing moving in the scene. It's pretty to look at while it's sitting still and that's it. Polygons 4 lyfe yo.

[RevXM]

Models and textures look great, but I think they still need to add a few things.
Loks kind of dull, but thats not to say that the level of detail in geometry isnt leaps and bounds ahead the competition. that is if this can even run in real time.

Needs some more lively effects Id say.

[palaeomerus]

It's just a new take on voxels folks. Remember Outcast?

[kevnb]

I doubt many people here do.

[nightwolf-hrvy]

You should be a lot more impressed than you actually are people

http://www.abovetopsecret.c...

[mrsatan]

Nope!

[x800]

wow that really is something!
its like dx11!

[ForTheFallen]

I'm amazed that I am not the only person on this site that knows what that site is.

[Pl4sm4]

frostbite 2 is the best looking engine imo .... a little too much bloom but its :D good

[THC CELL]

the site is annoying as it is i think he is a hit magnet

[mrsatan]

Yawn, it's a voxel engine. I love how he doesn't explain any of the downsides. He doesn't tell you how hard it will be to do skeletal animations or that the fact it can render in unlimited detail is because it is a duplication of the same object over and over. I wouldn't exactly call it snake oil, but they sure as hell aren't being completely honest with the tech.

[yamzilla]

crysis 1 maxed in dx10 with 16x anti aliasing and all settings cranked SHITS on anything in this demo of constant repeating textures.

Sure, the tech is impressive and maybe when some actual game designers/artists get their hands on it then we can talk.

As is stands now crysis destroys this demo in terms of visual fidelity and appeal!

[Hassassin]

Ok so just to make it clear... this tech does not work (yet) with moving objects and uses repetition mostly to be able to render that much models.
BUT, they could just make the models they need to move with polygons, and everything else with this "atom" detail. Plus I don't really care, and won't notice if the grains of dirt all look alike :B (this goes also for bricks, leaves, etc. wich are elements which can be repeated without getting to repeatitive)

[AfricanWoolf]

I don't doubt that in the hands of skilled artists, this engine could produce some stunningly detailed stuff.

If you look into the tech at all, you see why this is possible. Animation with this engine is incredibly difficult.

To me, animation, lighting, artstyle, these are all more important than polygon count so ya, I don't really care about this engine unless they can make animating more easily doable.

[net123456]

They arent using textures if i see that correctly thats the special thing about it I guess. Its partialy impressive if you can combine it with all the other effects. It looks kind of naked. Its by far not the best if seen. And Tesselation is gona be big in the future that should result in some really impressive geometry in the future. At the current stadium this wont go anywhere it needs to show what it can. This shows some impressiv geometry but this aint enough nowadays. Itwould have been impressiv 2005. Even if there is more potential in this technology they need to prove it looks better then what we are used to.

[hampoofegg]

Tesselation relates directly to polygon modeling. This is a voxel rendering engine, which is used as a modeling tool for the reason that it's extremely data intensive and has no valuable use as an animation asset. Given what they showed in the demo, this is just another "look what I can do" demo and nothing will be really implemented.

[net123456]

Ah this is going to bite me in the ass: Sure they are using textures but no bumb mapping and multilayer textures. Since the Objects are really 3D .

[Psychotica]

bumb mapping?

[net123456]

yeah yeah bumpmapping

[Tzuno]

yeah graphics you mindless kid while the games story and mechanics suck. I hope you will pay a 60$ for virtual woods to admire them.