Followed by "What the hell is wrong with humanity?".. every day N4G takes a little of my faith on humanity...
Yay for internet 2.0
We are years away from realtime radiosity? O really?
http://br.youtube.com/watch...
Halo3 has a light bounce solution, it's not real radiosity by any means but it's ahead of UE3/KZ2 engines ambient light by a mile.
Actally I don't find either to be the holy grail, those technologies SHOULD be on both way long before .. I'm expecting more from Splinter Cell Conviction's engine, Project Offset, Alan Wake .. and other projects that are licensing hardcore firmware (like Geometric Enlighten.)
Halo 3 tech-wise is better than Gears2 so far, yet .. I find highly unfair to say Gears 2 didn't evolved .. it's a joke.
Thx for the intolerant, passive-agressive conversation, I never said they are using real-megatextures .. I said "something like it" which is OBVIOUS.
2x more textures on screens is = 2x more res... SEMANTICS... thx for the objective technology discussion...
And again, I wasn't talking about the amount but the variety of them on the same surface. (for instance, a photorealistic human face can use up to 15 dif shaders on the same surface (Count on my lat...
Read both those documents and many more before, it doesn't change the fact in video KZ2 is being rendered with static lights and cleary baked. (Using aditive blending to add the light from explosions/etc.)
The scenery shadows are cleary blurred with artifacts of the UV projection angles.. yay for them for using the Blu-Ray storage for all that, but it's not dynamic.
What I told you about materials is that the art team has now more options of materials to use in t...
The worst of hardware/console flame wars is that the majority doesn't really understand how the tech works and how it's relevant.
90% judge "technology" based on visuals.. which is very much a huge mistake. Silent Hill series has been the most realistic looking games back til now, yet .. technology-wise it's very weak.
Frequently I see people judge how good a game technology is by "how much color" it has .. wtf?...
Here in gears...
tech-wise I see a lot of improvement, A LOT.. I think we are back at the "gamers can't tell art from tech" again.. and again..
The fact is that, she was PAID to spill the rumors (As an 'unoficial' way to hype your game without getting bite in the ass later if you don't deliver it.)
And the majority of her rumors was absolutely correct (for obvious reasons), which makes me LMAO at the people above calling her "fake" .. she's legit .. too legit ..
Strange, one would think the folding ratio would fall during GTA4 times.. O.o'
[insert unmeasured praise based on desperation]
Someone has been giving too much power to their own comunication companies .. lol
Everyone hates vista and still more people use it than Mac or Linux... and it's only going to get worse as Vista gets un-blocked drivers and proper software + updates..
Everyone, even noobs, know that you don't ask a new OS to be good before he's been a couple of years in the market .. playing blind is silly.
While I do agree microsoft charge a lot and most of times you are cornered to pick windows instead of anything else, that's how our free world is so far, we all are cornered to play the north american globalization model, to export/import through them using the dolar exange, but the truth is that most of the world economy run independent from them, without their control .. much like windows.
With mac, you are giving away your freedom for paranoid safety and superficial comfort,...
In apple's comunism, you can only get to choose from the 2 or 3 cars they want you to choose .. I can pick any of hundreds of good and bad models as freely as I want in the free world.
Hitler had the "people's car" it was cheap and powerful compared to ours, but it was the only one you could choose.
Apple continously inventend new plugs, file formatations, protocols, movie formats and media standards saying it was because those were better systems, but the sole purpose was to keep the poor apple people isolated from the world...
Making you all believe in this fiction villan of the evil "imperialists"...
Totalitarian dictators also design the system to make your work easier, at first.
The apple government thinks you are too stupid to pick your own hardware.
Apple is communism for computers, damm you hippies .. can't you see Steve Jobs is a complete dictator? it took years for Mac users to be allowed to change their own wallpapers..
Nothing, it's for video editing purposes... studios and stuff.
.................. they are talking about XBLA graphical limit .............