"Linger In Shadows" PS3 demo by Plastic

[archangelmorph]

Just watched the video now..

It's good but there are a few things which jarred me..

The city in the background is a skybox..
The animations seem a bit choppy & clunky..

& finally what's wrong with the colour range??? there seems to be alot of banding all over the place & it makes alot of the detail just look wierd..

Anyone else notice this?

 

[inefficient]

I like what I see. I think it's pretty impressive for their first PS3 venture. The scenes they chose to go with do seem to have the advantages of a CPU like cell in mind.

The video itself seems to be chopped up badly. The full version should have more artistic flow. It's not the best scene demo I have seen. But it's not bad at all.

I heard Plastic was not the only demo group to get dev kits from Sony. I can't wait to see what else is going to be coming. Something from Andromeda or Farbrausch would be fantastic to see.

 

[Neb]

Yeah the skybox looks quite bad, they should used DoF as other techdemos use to achieve a better background effect. But they need to up the texture res, sprite blending and perhaps better color/lighting since it did look a bit strange. But this is their first techdemo so things will improve. Cat did look really good aswell as the dog with the fur.

 

[deepbrown]

Actually they spent quite some time in learning how to utilize all the SPU's for the Pico engine.

Naturally...to make it work on the PS3. I said the SPU's didnt inspire their design.

 

[Neb]

Naturally...to make it work on the PS3. I said the SPU's didnt inspire their design.

Sorry for that, had your quote "hanging" to long to notice the edit.

 

[deepbrown]

Sorry for that, had your quote "hanging" to long to notice the edit.

I didn't edit...

 

[Neb]

I didn't edit...

Hehe maybe I am getting old, I'll check the cache but your post has an edit tag check mark, not that it mathers anyways.

 

[Antan]

http://capped.tv/player.php?vid=1206492145-1-0

direct high q link in case some cant find.

 

[Neb]

http://capped.tv/player.php?vid=1206492145-1-0

direct high q link in case some cant find.

Also from this link one can dowload the video in H.264 encoding, it is ~406MB but I got 1MB/sec down.

http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=...dows_partyversion_nosoundfx_h264.avi&fileinfo

 

[deepbrown]

Hehe maybe I am getting old, I'll check the cache but your post has an edit tag check mark, not that it mathers anyways.

Well i can't remember what I did...but inspire was always in there. I prob had a typo

 

[AlNom]

& finally what's wrong with the colour range??? there seems to be alot of banding all over the place & it makes alot of the detail just look wierd..

Anyone else notice this?

I haven't yet seen the video, just Nebula's screenshots. The banding seems more like the artistic direction seen in certain paintings.

edit: ah... at about 2:40 in the video, I see banding on the uh... green... blob... thing. Nevermind!

 

[Betanumerical]

The fur shading on that dog was

 

[Shifty Geezer]

I haven't yet seen the video, just Nebula's screenshots. The banding seems more like the artistic direction seen in certain paintings.

Are those pictures showing any of archangelmorph's banding? i can't see it. There's colour blocking, as it were, but as you say that's an artistic effect, in combination with compression. The screenies seem to be upscaled too.

As a demo (haven't watched it yet), it's actually a damp squib because it wasn't designed for and on the hardware it's supposedly demoing. It's more a port from PC of an artistic creation. Unless a PS3 demo is being written from the ground up to use the SPEs, it's not really demoing the machine.

 

[AlNom]

Here's a photo of the banding I saw (and I think the only instance I noticed in particular that wasn't part of the non-photorealistic rendering):

edit:





Btw, it's not that I'm complaining or anything. It's probably just part of the post-processing they're doing being more noticeable on objects with greater contouring.

 

[Neb]

Are those pictures showing any of archangelmorph's banding? i can't see it. There's colour blocking, as it were, but as you say that's an artistic effect, in combination with compression. The screenies seem to be upscaled too.

As a demo (haven't watched it yet), it's actually a damp squib because it wasn't designed for and on the hardware it's supposedly demoing. It's more a port from PC of an artistic creation. Unless a PS3 demo is being written from the ground up to use the SPEs, it's not really demoing the machine.

Nah, they are direct captures of the 720p H.264 video.

 

[AlNom]

The [strike]game[/strike] demo isn't rendering at 720p

 

[Neb]

The fur shading on that dog was

While the dog had good fur I think the cat was far better with it's fur.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

I saw that in a low-res vid but assumed it was from compression. I guess it could be a form of averaging to create that paint-ish look. I can't off the top of my head think of any reason to use such low-quality colour data except for deliberate effect.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Nah, they are direct captures of the 720p H.264 video.

I meant upscaled from in the video, not from the capture. That is, PS3 is upscaling.

 

[Neb]

I meant upscaled from in the video, not from the capture. That is, PS3 is upscaling.

Got it, thanks.

The [strike]game[/strike] demo isn't rendering at 720p

What would be the native res?