Best water rendering effects *spawn

[Shifty Geezer]

That one is well discussed. For its time and many years later it was definitely supreme, but realism, complexity and rendering have clearly superseded it.

 

[Riddlewire]

What can you say about water in Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance on PS2. In my opinion, that sill is best water in games.

It's not even as good as the water in Blinx.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

It's not even as good as the water in Blinx.

Commentary at timestamp 30:20 - "It's no Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance"!

Resolution is way down versus BGDA.

 

[Riddlewire]

Commentary at timestamp 30:20 - "It's no Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance"!

Commentary at timestamp 32:38 - "Whoa! That's amazing actually. Okay, I'll admit Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance might have a little competition."

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Yeah, but it wins. Far more detail and also 3D geometry.

 

[davis.anthony]

To me the water in BGDA doesn't look like water....

This is still one of the best imo.

 

[Snyder]

Re: Horizon Forbidden West's water - a detailed presentation of what went into just the breaking waves effect:

https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2022/index.html#Water

And from the Siggraph Live presentation, the water in general (but their whole presentation is cool):

I really like their extensive procedural/simulation systems in the Dunia engine, the attention to detail - and its result - is impressive.

 

[techuse]

Black Flag was the last time we had a large leap in water rendering.

 

[Karamazov]

i would say sea of thieves

 

[milk]

I've yet to see a recent game attempt use water physics the way hydrophobia did:

that was an xbox 360 game...

 

[cheapchips]

I think i have that on Gold. It's not great game sadly.

 

[Karamazov]

not really water, but that was a nice fluid interaction in an actual PS4 game

 

[Shifty Geezer]

I wasn't aware Claybook got a PS4 port!

 

[Karamazov]