Square-Enix Acquires Unreal Engine 3 License
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Anything can be "adjusted" to run on 360 and PC. It's just that if the engine uses Cell and the SPUs extensively, together with using the 35GB link between Cell and RSX for all sorts of things, and is heavily optimised for that, it would be rather time-consuming to try and port that over totally different architectures such as a PC.
Fixed it for you..IMO SE is after the virtual displacement mapping technology in UE3. It allows much better looking 3D models and in the right hands like SE's...
For a moment I thought you were serious.
UE3 doesn't seem bad choice for multiplatform games and if FFX? online is under development, it is very likely that SE wants all players to be able to share the servers regardless on which platform they use.
For something like that UE3 should work like charm.
You can do whatever on an evaluation version of UE3, you pay money to buy a license only when an actual game is to be released.
scooby_dooby
Legend
As much as I'm excited about a SE rpg coming to 360, enough with the UE3!
I'm sick of these jaggies, can we please get some engines that can make use of Xenos to provide proper 4xAA like promised? K, thx!
I'm sick of these jaggies, can we please get some engines that can make use of Xenos to provide proper 4xAA like promised? K, thx!
Fu3lFr3nzy
Regular
I agree. Theres lots of engines(spare the jokes ok?
) out there, and I dont know why companies wont use those instead. The only other engine I know thats also popular among devs is the source engine, but the rest is kinda "nah, we'll use UE3 instead" :|I guess its really that easy and simple to use
I just hope they don't use the Vin Diesel model that seems to come as standard in the UE3 engine, under the "Main Character" menu.... I'd cry if even a Final Fantasy game fell for the Vin Diesel curse that plagues all UE3 engines.
Have you ever seen Square making an RPG for the Western World first? Think of 360's japanese install base
FF VII
That's very arguable. It was definietly more "western friendly" than previous offerings, but that hardly means it was made for the west first.
Point is they made a conscious effort to make the game western friendly. They know the west is a very important market and Japanese gamers will buy whatever FF game comes out regardless so it would not surprise me to see FF ported to 360 to attain more US sales.
Then why doesn't their next generation game look anything like UE3's displacement mapped models in terms of detail? FF looks pretty weak when it comes to character model detail.
The UE3 ' virtual displacement' is used only on static geometry (eg framed wall) ,never on characters ,because it would look very bad (problems :angle of view,self shadowing ,casted/received shadow ... ).
Now ,(and because i would fully agree with this reason )i think it's a mater of artistic choice.
agreed. and yes Square has made an RPG for the Western World first in mind, it was called "Secret of Evermore".
You know. That chick they've shown is lacking high resolution normal mapping for zits, pimple and warts, lines and wrinkles. If SE were to use UE3.0 instead of their rubbishy White Engine, we could have lead female characters that look as detailed as this
