The new Cryengine 3 tech demo is... incredible

Comments

• Ivan Icrontic’s Loveable Bot

  Aug 2012

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• Theironhand Member

  Aug 2012

  Amazing.

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• BuddyJ Community Leader, D&D Supernerd

  Aug 2012

  top secret tessellated toad tech!

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• Snarkasm The Photographer Member, Supporter

  Aug 2012

  God damnit is that gorgeous. The helo downdrafts affecting the vegetation was glorious.
  
  Only thing I don't get when going for photorealism is pimping your lens flares. Human eyes don't get lens flares...

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• Thrax Professional Shill, Fashion Police, Complex Hierarchy Interpreter, Community Leader, D&D Supernerd, Supporter, Dance Commander, Official Rep, Expo Attendee

  Aug 2012

  But cinematic, third-person cameras do.

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• mertesn Icrontic Duke of Haxor Community Leader, Supporter, Writer, Expo Attendee

  Aug 2012

  

  

  

  lens_flares.PNG

  630 x 619 - 545K

  

  2 • Awesomesauce 2Lulz
• primesuspect The Curator of Delightful Experiences Admin, D&D Supernerd, Supporter, Expo Attendee

  Aug 2012

  That vegetation under the rotors is absolutely incredible. Blows my mind.

  

  1 • 1Awesomesauce Lulz
• Snarkasm The Photographer Member, Supporter

  Aug 2012

  Thrax said:

  But cinematic, third-person cameras do.

  Sure, but they didn't show it as an over-the-shoulder view of something, it all looked like first-person except when they showed the suit. Doesn't matter much. :)

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• MAGIC Member, Event Organizer

  Aug 2012

  Fffuuu, I need to spend 3k on a computer again.

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• midga Member

  Aug 2012

  Meh. It apparently can't handle something as simple as a rear-view mirror, and that bird's flapping in the beginning was incredibly unrealistic. Cool toad, though.

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• mertesn Icrontic Duke of Haxor Community Leader, Supporter, Writer, Expo Attendee

  Aug 2012

  midga said:

  Meh. It apparently can't handle something as simple as a rear-view mirror, and that bird's flapping in the beginning was incredibly unrealistic. Cool toad, though.

  Because in the middle of a firefight, the most important thought that crosses my mind is "Hey, that bird's wings don't flap realistically." :D

  

  2 • Awesomesauce 2Lulz
• UPSLynx The Dean of Computer Graphics Community Leader, Supporter, Writer, Official Rep, Sonic

  Aug 2012

  I want to hope that the potential we're seeing here isn't going to be nerfed on PCs because of consoles, but I don't have a ton of hope. Some of the effects are indeed impressive (especially the pixel-accurate displacement. No one else can do that in real time currently), but the water is garbage. The caustics are nice, but you can tell they've abandoned having actual volumetric surface details. The water is completely flat despite having a turbulence source immediately to the right. water in Crysis 1 had polygonal waves, but it looks like they've continued to cheap out in that department again. (Crysis 2 was disappointing in this regard).
  
  Now the particle effects lighting sequence, THAT looked next gen. And the prop-wash affecting the vegetation was great. Crytek needs to work on more details like that, and take advantage of the head-start PC has.
  
  I dunno. Crysis 2 had similar tech demos that looked really fantastic, but when I actually played Crysis 2 on PC at max details, I was disappointed. Too many concessions were made for the console port (not to mention a preposterous implementation of DX11 that was a complete cop-out). I'm hoping they improve with Crysis 3, but it's had to have faith in that franchise anymore considering what they've done.

  

  5 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• Thrax Professional Shill, Fashion Police, Complex Hierarchy Interpreter, Community Leader, D&D Supernerd, Supporter, Dance Commander, Official Rep, Expo Attendee

  Aug 2012

  I actually liked the water a lot, particularly the light diffusion and the DOF when the camera was under the water.

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• UPSLynx The Dean of Computer Graphics Community Leader, Supporter, Writer, Official Rep, Sonic

  Aug 2012

  Yeah, and those effects were outstanding for sure. It's some of the finest looking stuff. But surface area is practically a flat mirror with some minor shader properties. It breaks the illusion. The second I saw the first glimpse of water at 0:15, I couldn't stop myself from frowning. Surface area effects are just... bad. It looks terrible in contrast to everything else around it.
  
  If you can't convince with the surface, I care not for how swell it looks below. Photorealistic immersion is a package deal, all or nothing.

  

  1 • 1Awesomesauce Lulz
• shwaip Community Leader, Writer

  Aug 2012

  Ugh I might need to upgrade to a 4-slot toaster for this.

  

  1 • Awesomesauce 1Lulz
• midga Member

  Aug 2012

  mertesn said:

  midga said:

  Meh. It apparently can't handle something as simple as a rear-view mirror, and that bird's flapping in the beginning was incredibly unrealistic. Cool toad, though.

  Because in the middle of a firefight, the most important thought that crosses my mind is "Hey, that bird's wings don't flap realistically." :D

  But you do bring up a good point. It might not be the most important thing, but it /would/ cross your mind, and that's a distraction that could get you killed. Then it's game over, reload from spawn, all because of a damn bird flapping like a fool.

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• fatcat it never ends, Event Organizer, Supporter, Gaming Leader

  Aug 2012

  why show off graphics tech at 720p? o.O

  

  1 • 1Awesomesauce Lulz
• Thrax Professional Shill, Fashion Police, Complex Hierarchy Interpreter, Community Leader, D&D Supernerd, Supporter, Dance Commander, Official Rep, Expo Attendee

  Aug 2012

  Because YouTube.

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• fatcat it never ends, Event Organizer, Supporter, Gaming Leader

  Aug 2012

  Thrax said:

  Because YouTube.

  youtube does 1080p and 2k and 4k
  

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• Ilriyas Resident Mage Member, Supporter

  Aug 2012

  YOU ALL SAW NOTHING

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• UPSLynx The Dean of Computer Graphics Community Leader, Supporter, Writer, Official Rep, Sonic

  Aug 2012

  @Ilriyas YOU'RE IN THE BETA?! Why haven't we talked about this? This would be like me getting Katawa Shoujo 2: Rin's adventure starring Rin and Rainbow Dash and me playing it and never even mentioning it to you. THAT'S WHAT THIS IS LIKE.

  

  1 • Awesomesauce 1Lulz
• Ilriyas Resident Mage Member, Supporter

  Aug 2012

  NOPE NOTHING HERE

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz
• Gargoyle We can't stop here... Community Leader, Supporter

  Aug 2012

  UPSLynx said:

  But surface area is practically a flat mirror with some minor shader properties. It breaks the illusion. The second I saw the first glimpse of water at 0:15, I couldn't stop myself from frowning. Surface area effects are just... bad. It looks terrible in contrast to everything else around it.

  Now that I've seen it, I can't unsee it. That does look pretty bad. This coming from a guy that usually cranks down water detail (old GPUs), though, so maybe that's why I didn't notice it until you pointed it out.

  0 • Awesomesauce Lulz