When I tried to watch the recorded stream (used Net Transport 2), it stopped to an error some time after the Far Cry demonstration. Anyone else run into it & what should the entire file size be, exactly?
Video worked fine for me. Very awesome, thanks for sharing it. I have been looking for videos of the EQ2 and full timbury/nalu/boat demos for awhile after seeing the teaser collage off Nvidia's website.
Something I noticed though, Tim Sweeney and Cevat from Crytek both all said PS 2.0/3.0 for their new engine effects. And then the Nvidia marketing guy corrected them a few times to 3.0. Is PS3.0 not required for effects like the displacement mapping and shadows in Farcry/Unreal3?
Something I noticed though, Tim Sweeney and Cevat from Crytek both all said PS 2.0/3.0 for their new engine effects. And then the Nvidia marketing guy corrected them a few times to 3.0. Is PS3.0 not required for effects like the displacement mapping and shadows in Farcry/Unreal3?
No. PS3.0 gives efficiency, but any visual effects you can do in 3.0 can be done in 2.0 . Obviously Nvidia want to emphasise PS 3.0 because ATI won't have it, hence the recent misleading Farcry example pictures from the Nvidia launch labelled PS2.0 and PS3.0, when in fact they were PS1.1 and PS2.0/3.0 .
Are you sure "any" visual effect in 3.0 can be done in PS 2.0? PS 2.x perhaps, but PS 2.0 is pretty limited, both in instruction length and functionality. Most relative simple (including most useful) visual effects can be done in PS 2.0, but there are definitely something that can be done in PS 3.0 can't be done in PS 2.0.