Only if in next gen the texture artists suddenly become talented to the very last man/woman, and agree to work for free 24/7.
We used to have on the order of 2000-2500 shader permutations when we used a forward renderer; when we went deferred, they dropped to around...
You are right. Here are the Project Kingdoms ones I was thinking about: http://maciejkuciara.com/professional.html
...And that banner image is from Crytek's Kingdoms, not any of the projects mentioned above?
I think we'll see more of the BF3 Xbox "HD install" thing, with standard texture packs delivered to digital distribution, diskless consoles, free...
Don't run at 1920x1080 what has been painted for 1820x720, simple as that. You do realize this has been done in something like five years and...
This is true (the supported max resolution sizes), but it has little to do with the final resolution of the textures in-game, which is limited by...
From what I hear, this _was_ ingame. Also: If that wasn't a price drop announcement, I don't know what is :-)
No, decoupled resolution with the same mapping. The same piece of the megatexture with the same shape is covering the geometry, but for diffuse we...
What makes you think so? My understanding (possibly very wrong) of how it works is that they can adaptively distribute real pixel resolution...
We'll be shipping a title, The First Templar, soon, which supports splitscreen on PC. No two pads support, though - one player must play with a...
An hour or two? You must have done something interesting to it, care to share?
The question, as stated, does not make sense, and you will not get answers that make sense. The cost of a drawcall is by itself is meaningless;...
We're about to ship a Xbox 360 titles with a light pre-pass renderer. We use it to have significantly different shading on characters, with more...
Or there might be another one coming out sooner ;-)
Nah, it should at least run Crysis 2 well. /runs
I think it would be possible to gain performance from games being close to monochromatic - e.g. use 1- and 2-channel textures instead of full 3-...
Erm yes, let's hear more of his detailed opinion on "shaders" and "meshes" and "FX"... I bet he also spells "Micro$oft" with a "$"
You will rebuy them in "HD HD" remake collections.
Re: forum organization/etiquette: I dislike the tendency to lump everything into a dozen of age-old, hundred-page threads; people even start new...
"Certainly better"? What does running at 60 fps have with either UE3 and CE3? I'm sure both can run an empty screen or even a spinning cube at...
Let's wait for at least one cross-platform CryEngine 3 game before we proclaim it to be a viable contender, much less the _only_ contender, shall we?
Nvidia announcing *now a SoC which will utterly destroy current *phones* in 6 months makes them a shoe-in for a system that has to compete...
Good observation. Sad for us gamers, but probably at this point each dollar spent towards Nokia/WP7 will probably return more than if spent on...
A "Visual Effects" award goes not to whoever has the greatest tech, but to whoever uses it best. Kinectimals was made by Frontier, the studio...
Kinectimals is top-notch visually, definitely. It does only one thing well - okay, two - lush vegetation and felines - but it does them head and...
Now I think of it, it might be _impossible_ to force from the driver due to the requirement for superres depth/normals. Anyway, it's "NVIDIA" in...
This is very different from MLAA, and should not be compared to it. First, it is probably impossible to do without some support from the...
No, this second part is not true. Imagine the "single texture" not as a 2D image but as a mipmap tree, starting from a single pixel at top, and...
The point is that the artist doesn't know and doesn't care how many textures are there. They can look at a place that seems low-detail to them,...
Someone's had a rough few years eh? All due respect to PC gaming - which has been paying my salary for the last 10 years - and there really seems...
Ummm no. "Hadn't any better tech" I might give you, this is harder to argue; but Gears was in a whole new visual league by itself; they...
There was a recent article in some kind of investment blog making the argument that Microsoft's management should buy out the company, and take it...
This works pretty well on "diagonal" (not almost-horizontal or almost-vertical) edges, and most important, seems to blur what it can't fix, less...
This particular shot seems to be supersampled, the branches on the trees are too good to be true.
Split controller FTW, will open up the way for Kinect+gamepad games. See all the PC Kinect hacks involving a Wiimote.
Close minded? Where did I say that? If PS3 dominates in a country, a multiplatform title sells less for the Xbox. So if in US/UK e.g. Kinect...
My theory: in a PS3 bastion the 360 SKU of COD:BO is penalized, everyone is buying the PS3 SKU. (Also, cheap bastards who think $40/year for...
Ummm what? Factually not true, MS does not mandate any kind of Live functionality.
Can't think of anything. Just make it faster overall, to eat the hit, and let the developers choose a point somewhere along the line of compromise...
One could argue that the console hasn't been hacked "proper" precisely because the DVD firmware hack is good enough for pirates, and there's no...
The once-per-decade Windows price (remember how long it took them to get us off XP?) is in no way comparable with the $10-per-title,...
That's an interesting thought - based on what we know about the internals, is a "slim slim PS3" feasible? When?
Tell you what? I never knew anyone who ever had a Wii. Honestly. Cross my heart. Nobody's social network is big enough to make meaningful...
The engine runs at no rate by itself; the engine runs at a crappy rate whatever the idiot artists threw at it without any concern for performance....
Sure, I'm fairly certain if you go to them with something like $20-40 mln, they'll gladly develop one for you.
Nintendo is sitting on a mountain of cash comparable to Microsoft's; why would they sell again? At some point they were approaching Toyota in...
A non-trivial amount of storage will be needed if the rising genre of free-to-play MMOs has to take off on consoles; those are games that should...
What's with the SKU hate? Having more than one SKU is a good way to do price segmentation, to let those willing to splurge to give you $100 for...
Yeah, and they couldn't buy/make enough EDRAM and GDDR to meet demand, and six months later it turned out the GPU bends the motherboard by the...