Uncharted 4: A Thief's End [PS4]

[Deleted member 11852]

Wow, it actually looks quite realistic as well - given ears are fairly translucent in terms of light. That or Drake's ear flush when he's murdering people..

 

[London Geezer]

The amount of details no one will ever even notice due to the fast action is pretty incredible. I guess that's where photo mode comes in.

 

[Darthoypx]

Wow mirar chaqueta de la tela cuando se dispara.

GAF spotted this:

Muzzle flash causes SSS on Drakes ear

 

[VFX_Veteran]

Wow, it actually looks quite realistic as well - given ears are fairly translucent in terms of light. That or Drake's ear flush when he's murdering people..

Stop it please.

 

[orangpelupa]

The amount of details no one will ever even notice due to the fast action is pretty incredible. I guess that's where photo mode comes in.

Those overly detailed stuff for 3rd person game... probably they have nice LOD system to accomodate that? or they just brute force it and have the high quality detail all the time even when the camera is in 3rd person?

 

[Billy Idol]

I am looking forward to all the crazy gifs this game will deliver

 

[Clukos]

GAF spotted this:

Muzzle flash causes SSS on Drakes ear

It's not only the ears, notice the hair also

 

[Nesh]

Stop it please.

For a game

 

[Deleted member 11852]

For a game

Adding that context won't save you.

I swear he's got some kind of Google alert for anybody using the word "realistic" in the console forums!!! There, I've summoned him again.

 

[Jupiter]

Muzzle flashes which have shadow casting light sources would be nice.

 

[London Geezer]

Adding that context won't save you.

I swear he's got some kind of Google alert for anybody using the word "realistic" in the console forums!!! There, I've summoned him again.

It's quicker if you write "A Console Game Looks Good". He appears like Beetlejuice.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

It's quicker if you write "A Console Game Looks Good". He appears like Beetlejuice.

Yes London-boy, I agree with you that Uncharted 4 is getting pretty close to the CGI you see in movies now. This is indeed very true.

 

[VFX_Veteran]

Nah.. Ya'll have fun with the gifs..

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Wow, it actually looks quite realistic as well - given ears are fairly translucent in terms of light.

I'm pretty sure VFX_Veteran's protestations are the ludicrous amount of illumination coming off that muzzle flash. There just wouldn't be enough to light anything, let alone cause the ears to glow.

Muzzle flash is a lousy light source for dramatic effect. Hollywood even adds extra burn to make it more obvious. Clean, smokeless powder that burns efficiently doesn't produce much flash. So 'realistic' Uncharted ain't. Unless you qualify your statement with "the ear illumination looks pretty realistic in terms of how an ear would behave if someone was stood shing a torch at it."

"Firing the 5.45x39mm round out of the AKS-74u without the muzzle break on"

 

[Deleted member 11852]

That is a man who desperately needs some gardening tools. Hey Americans, guns aren't the solution to everything!

 

[Clukos]

I think the ear effect is a side effect of ND using cheap but good looking (by game standards) SSR during gameplay. Similar effect can be seen in the PSX footage when Nate is lit from behind at an angle

It's definitely a stylized effect and i wouldn't exactly call it realistic but i think it looks great.

Also it's nice to see a serious improvement over the E3 demo, which frankly looked quite goofy at times

 

[Deleted member 11852]

It's definitely a stylized effect and i wouldn't exactly call it realistic but i think it looks great.

I was really talking about how the ears glow in reaction to the light, rather than the light from the muzzle.

But I'm happy to swap "realistic" for "kick ass"! As London-boy said, one of a thousand details you'll never notice while playing because you're trying to nail that guy over there.

 

[Clukos]

I was really talking about how the ears glow in reaction to the light, rather than the light from the muzzle.

But I'm happy to swap "realistic" for "kick ass"! As London-boy said, one of a thousand details you'll never notice while playing because you're trying to nail that guy over there.

Oh yeah i definitely understood what you were going for, just have to make that clarification for VFX_Veteran

Regarding that gif, the animation transitions in that gif look so smooth, the way he removes the holster turns and aims at the same time is incredible but i think i did spot a bug in this one, missing texture?

It's hard to tell what is from the current build with the footage being mixed with 2014-2015 showcases of the game. Wish they didn't do that, it's not that hard to record 2-3 minutes of footage from the gold build, is it?

Edit: At least we get to see their occlusion technique which looks very nice on foliage!

 

[Deleted member 11852]

As much as I'm looking forward to U4 I can't ignore Ratchet & Clank which is out in four weeks. Then the True CGI claim nonsense can begin Until until people start comparing the game to the movie. Then they'll be tears, you mark my words.

 

[Sigfried1977]

Judging by the few snippets of the R&C movie we've seen thus far, it doesn't seem to be up there with today's state of the art CGI movies, though. Pixar it ain't. Not by a long shot. It's obviously still gonna look better than the game, but the two really do seem fairly comparable in terms of visuals at this point.