Next-gen Square Enix engine (article)

[OJtheLIONKing]

Porting over an entire game to a new engine is extremely complex and time consuming work. Hell, look at the trouble they're having even optimizing Crystal Tools for this PC, imagine porting all those assets to a new engine. If it had occurred to them that crystal tools might not be the best PC engine a few years ago, they might have programmed this new one with portability in mind, but somehow I doubt that. I think the best we can hope for is some kind of (well programmed!) DirectX 11 inplementation for CT sometime in the future. They did say a while ago that the head of the new engine's dev team was helping them optimize CT, so maybe we'll see some fruits of that labor.

[Reinheart]

they posted this image on JP site showing the Luminous Engine,

Real Photo:
http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/img/...lum18.jpg.html

3D image rendered with Luminous:
http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/img/...lum19.jpg.html

Video run through the 3d field: http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/vide...ender.wmv.html

LUM18 = Real Photo
LUM19 = 3d rendered image

[thepinksupervisor]

What is this trickery they look exactly the same.

[Archadius]

What is this trickery they look exactly the same.

Because they are. He posted the same link twice lmao

[redmage]

they posted this image on JP site showing the Luminous Engine,

Real Photo: http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/img/...lum19.jpg.html

3D image rendered with Luminous: http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/img/...lum19.jpg.html

Video run through the 3d field: http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/vide...ender.wmv.html

Reinheart, I think you got the urls mixed up =) is this the 3D image w/ Luminous? http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/img/...lum18.jpg.html

Or wait... is the lum18 the real photo? Because wow, the lum19 one looks better.

[Gramul]

What is this trickery they look exactly the same.

They are exactly the same.
Can't view the video right now though. Using a phone that can only play Youtube.

[Rydin]

Also (and I'm not sure about this) I think Crystal Tools can't support DirectX 11.

It DOESN'T support it... but it could....
DX11 wont magically make the game better though... DX11 allows the programers to use certain features that make the 3D API more efficient.... Whether they'd actually take advantage of DX11 features is another story entirely.

Perhaps they will use less giant blocks of cut and paste with this engine.

I could copy/paste huge polygonal models in Unreal, CryEngine, Id Tech, Anvil.... Its more a matter of design choice than engine flaw.... People should stop blaming this one on the engine.... They decided to make huge, seamless, high texture, high polygon zones... and when they realized it would reduce performance significantly (as it would with ANY current engine) they came up with the (not so original) solution to copy/paste objects to save resources (As well as development costs of time needed to actually create diverse landscapes that size)

[Reinheart]

Reinheart, I think you got the urls mixed up =) is this the 3D image w/ Luminous? http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/img/...lum18.jpg.html

Or wait... is the lum18 the real photo? Because wow, the lum19 one looks better.

Lum18 is real photo, Lum19 is the 3d rendered

[Archadius]

oops you're right its the other way around linked it wrong lol, fixed my post.

Actually it's not fixed lmao

Is 18.jpg the real and 19.jpg the 3D?

[Archadius]

There we go!