Ambitious PC Graphics [Yes, please!] :D (Yoshihisa Hashimoto)

In the FINAL FANTASY XIV Letter from the Producer LIVE Part III video there is a part were they talk about direct X (not the point of this thread) what is talked about during this question is.


Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFLSH2jkjw&t=35m17s



". . . After launch, our next big milestone is DX11 compatibility. Once we achieve this, there will be a further improvement in graphics. . ."



". . . Technical Director [Yoshihisa] Hashimoto was recently talking to me about whether it's possible to further increase graphics quality on the PC version, so we need to decide how ambitious we want to be. . ."




First this will quell some thoughts on graphics, as we can be certain from alpha to beta to launch there will be at least some graphic changes (specially water, hair, lightning). But even after that we (with good enough PC) may see an even better increase. That they have plans to continue even after release, this is good news.

I just want to say please let Yoshihisa, let the engine dig deep for those PCs that can handle it (and players who cant, can still play this game for years and when they buy a new pc they will have -a lot- to look forward to).

Longer graphic shelf life as PCs get stronger.

3d graphics for 3d glasses!!!

I hope they make it even better from now to release (good now, but why not go higher right?)

Yes, please let those of us who have better hardware be able to make use of it in ARR.

Sounds good to me. If they can do it, why not? :)

What is the current version compatible with? DX9/10?

They can up the texture resolution all they want, won't mean a thing unless they fix those horrid combat animations and treadmill scrolling

I'm not concerned at all with the graphics though...just the piss poor animation we've seen so far

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

What is the current version compatible with? DX9/10?

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DirectX 9.

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Originally Posted by KiriA500

DirectX 9.

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Are you serious, DB? Wow...the game does look great considering that, though. I thought it would've been DirectX 10.

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

Are you serious, DB? Wow...the game does look great considering that, though. I thought it would've been DirectX 10.

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A lot of the direct X changes will be subtle:
(for the first comparison pay attention to the cracks and corners of the bricked wall, they become no longer textures pasted on a flat square)
http://youtu.be/lSfN7OTUOTA

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Originally Posted by Shougun

A lot of the direct X changes will be subtle:
(for the first comparison pay attention to the cracks and corners of the bricked wall, they become no longer textures pasted on a flat square)
http://youtu.be/lSfN7OTUOTA

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Huh, that's really interesting. It would be neat to see if and when ARR gets DirectX 11. Water and fire effects might/will look a lot different for when the game is later released. I remember how the fire looked when Khrimm (from the Gridania story) was lighting the tree on fire. That fire animation was N64 worthy.

I think the best news I could hear in the tech/graphics department is if they promise to dump the ps3 version after the ps4 has been out for X years so they they don't run this game into ps2 limitations hell like XI.

Of course Square Enix doesn't understand simple concepts like "offer client downloads for free because you need a freakin active account with an account code to play" and may the Twelve have mercy on us when also including Sony's PSN store into the equation where the concept of giving away a free download and letting SE handle account code keys might make a few suits' head explode so hard it will destroy the known universe (and then some) so instead there will probably be extra development time and extra paychecks handed out just to ensure that there is potential that is never reached because FF14 will forever have to run on weird old hardware with a bunch of low power CPUs strapped together and 256 MB of RAM.

I like the idea of being ambitious about the graphics engine! Then you can add cool stuff, like realistic wind physics. Like, if you're high up in the mountains, your hair and robes/cloth parts of armor will wift and waft in the wind's direction... or you're up high in the snowy mountains and there isn't much wind, giving this feeling of silence. Kinda like this:

http://images.epilogue.net/users/spi...ountainBIG.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZF2TvtdrnP...ver+-+1988.jpg
http://digital-art-gallery.com/oid/6...igital_art.jpg