CryENGINE 3
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I think the Engine would be very useful for the devs who want to do cross platform games, if they license it. May save them a lot of time.
I dunno, it looks exactly the same to me, just the difference between a direct feed and off screen source.
Well looks practically the same however IMO looks like they exchanged the skybox texture with the dynamic sky without clouds vs the older CE3 techdemo + changed TOD. However difference between PS3 and 360 is more pronounced. Like in video part 2 at 0:28.
Looks like a difference in framebuffer format (at the very least); the 360 lighting is closer to the PC feed.
Yeah at the risk of sounding inflamatory, I though the 360 version looked a bit better. Seemed to have better performance too.
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The PS3 version had a cooler color tone while the 360 version had a warmer color tone.
It looks like fabulous engine for 3rd parties! Regards the differences, the obvious one is contrast, but I wouldn't pin that down to anything technical at this point. There are clearly artistic differences. eg. The fan shadows in the early corridors, the fans are spinning slower on PS3 which seems a non-technical difference. The only obvious advantage I noticed was better atmospherics on the XB360.
I thought we were all well aware of the differences in default contrast settings between the two consoles by now but yes, the 360 has a high contrast level setting by default, to the point where it loses color information in the output, and I personally think that'd better be left to the tv settings to deal with. What would have been really, really impressive is if the Crysis editor could also keep that in balance across platforms 
... but that's probably impossible, and anyway people will be used to it to the point where they already have their TVs set up to deal with it, and that's only for people who have both anyway.
But enough of that - it looks fantastic. They did a fantastic job with the editing tools, the graphics, the effects. There are slight bits of pop-in still on the consoles, but overall very very good. I hope it also lends itself to other genres than first person shooters.
... but that's probably impossible, and anyway people will be used to it to the point where they already have their TVs set up to deal with it, and that's only for people who have both anyway.But enough of that - it looks fantastic. They did a fantastic job with the editing tools, the graphics, the effects. There are slight bits of pop-in still on the consoles, but overall very very good. I hope it also lends itself to other genres than first person shooters.
I presume the pop-in is more a matter of the realtime editing, and will be less prevalent in a finished game.
It's just more vsync ps3 vs more smoothness 360 or I'm wrong? For the rest I have just noticed differents tone of light/colour. imho
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Me too. But I think because is just a build.
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Dont you guys find funny that history its repeating itself?
One time you have the id guys revealing its next tech and vision. Then the Crytek guys deliver a similar technology and earlier time. I.E:
Doom 3 its revealed first, heavy emphasis on Normal Maps. Farcry is realesed first with what Crytek called "Polybump".
Rage is revealed first, easy and transparent multi platform development. Cryengine 3, centering in simple cross platform development already shipping to devs. (if we take the press release as true).
One time you have the id guys revealing its next tech and vision. Then the Crytek guys deliver a similar technology and earlier time. I.E:
Doom 3 its revealed first, heavy emphasis on Normal Maps. Farcry is realesed first with what Crytek called "Polybump".
Rage is revealed first, easy and transparent multi platform development. Cryengine 3, centering in simple cross platform development already shipping to devs. (if we take the press release as true).
The real-time multi-platform sync is awesome. The console versions are also looking much more promising than what previous console videos showed. It's a shame they're still using heightmaps for terrain but I can fault them too much if it allows iterating this fast! Yeah, I felt the visible popping was due to being in editor mode.
Anyone know if theres supposed to be a Part 3 to those vids? Just kinda felt like the presentation wasnt over when the 2nd vid cutout/finished.
Btw, heres a FREE 720p source for both vids.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/49660/CryEngine-3-Tech-Demo-Movies
Btw, heres a FREE 720p source for both vids.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/49660/CryEngine-3-Tech-Demo-Movies
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The engine looks really good. Of course there are a few moments of pop-in, but in general it runs smoothly and looks good on the PS3.
The comparison video with PS3 and 360 is good too, you can see the difference in screens with the PS3 much lighter than the darker 360, they probably haven't setup the monitors correctly though.
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