@Ju "Yeah, but using a fully dynamic approach is overkill in most cases." This isn't such a case...
There is no realistic way to pre-bake a destructive environment of this scale.
You can simulate it by having all objects and their shadows in a few versions - and a explosion/fire/cloud when transforming from one to the other state.
But when objects casts shadows on other objects that might be destroyed the system breaks down... ...
Twitter messages about terrain deformation causing this problem. An update would be needed for client and will be released for retail - for now they turn off terrain deformation in servers. Done already?
Very interesting article, will there come a second article?
"The engine makes use of such a dizzying amount of technologies that we will be devoting a whole article on the subject in the coming days."
You have not played Battlefield 3 Beta Rush until you successfully armed and destroyed (or at least disarmed) a M-com.
These are the natural "fast paced, constant action" spots.
With a half good defensive team you can not do it yourself, at least not by run & gun...
Agreed, I was also playing alfa on quite bad hardware...
This PS3 beta is better.
But it might be as simple as beta is better than alpha...
PSN Beta is out! (At least in EU)
- Search alphabetically (as it is closed beta it is not promoted)
- Download, install
- Start
- Modify options! Default were HiFi NON stereo!?
(changed it to Home Cinema, Stereo)
- Enjoy!
During PC alpha I had to lower frame size, below 720p, to get this smooth gameplay - that PC was just above minimum requirements...
Note: I have not got any notification from EA that it is out,...
I hope you do understand that capturing video off screen with an unsynchronized camera WILL tear.
Think about it - you get tearing when the change of frames is not synchronized with VSYNC.
But by filming with camera off screen you added the cameras VSYNC into the mix... (tripple buffering at the source won't help)
Example: every odd frame is blue, every even frame is red, perfect projector VSYNC. What will the camera see?
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Next week...
http://twitter.com/#!/AMDRa...
Duplicate
http://n4g.com/news/850123/...
A bug/problem list as short as 99 items would be great for any software project of this size!
New corrected info from repi on twitter.
(In this question I trust a rendering architect more than a community manager...)
Recommended System => High Setting
So the headline should really read as
"15% of PC gamers on Steam will be able to run BF3 in high setting"
But there is an 'Ultra setting' too...
CORRECTED info on twitter from repi
Recommended system => 'High' settings
But there is still one even higher setting 'Ultra'...
@ATi_Elite
"No game requires a 580 SLI set-up to run."
Did I say that? I was in the Alfa with an GT220!
"mid range PC ($500 to $800) will be able to run BF3 on max settings at 1080p with 4xAA"
I do not think BF3 has a setting called "max" but if you mean "Ultra" then your statement above is wrong. I do not remember "Ultra" being an option in Alfa - but that might say more about my grap...
Notice the lack of Intel graphics => most netbooks fails!
And laptops graphics chips are often worse than their name suggests... named to sound great...
http://www.tomshardware.com...
Recommended system => 'Medium' graphics
'Ultra' requires GTX580 SLI (or comparable ATI I guess)...
But I would wait for next generation graphics and buy a mid level board, as I believe that even your $500 PC will produce graphics looking better than most other games.
"Squad leader are always moving around, directing fireteam leaders, machine gunners, or, occasionally, firing at the enemy."
But a chapter on how to best Respawn is severly lacking :-)
"too late to fix anything"
Yes, it would be late to fix their single player.
But that is not what they are testing in this Beta...
They are testing multiplayer, multiplayer requires network access, network access => you may download patches.
No Weather/Time changes in Beta, not at all or not at launch.
The article does not really say...
But if I have to chose how to interpret it - not in Beta
PC version of Mirrors Edge - that would be the version with improved PhysX wouln't it?
@Ju "There is no dynamic shadowing in BF3 (nor in any other console game)."
what is your source for that statement?
Mine are found at
http://publications.dice.se...
Xbox360: Tiled based deferred shading for Xbox360 (a chapter in)
http://publications.dice.se...