Direct X 10/11 Question - Answer (Translated)

[Rane]

Folks, this is an old response made before 2.0 was even public knowledge. Yoshida himself has since disconfirmed this statement. In one of the interviews he did after 2.0 was officially announced, he said that the dev team would be working to make FF 2.0 DX 10/11 compatible sometime after its release. He followed up by promising that this wasn't just lip service: they really would work to do it.

I'm too lazy to hunt down the interview. Maybe it was Blue Gartr's? If somebody else knows for sure and is less lazy than me, please post the link

Anyway, let's try to avoid getting our panties in a wad about out-of-date information.



EDIT: Ah, what the heck. Here's Yoshida's quote.

First thing, we're going to make sure ALT-TAB does not kill your game! [laughs] We're sorry it still happens!

The first thing, with this current graphics engine, is that you can't do things such as display more than 40 characters at the same time. That, to him (Yoshida), was nonsense. First, we wanted to start off by having an engine that covers that, and get rid old problems like that. We're making the new graphics engine such that if you have a high-end PC, we want you to be able to display tons of different characters and not have it tax your CPU. But we're also making it to where low-end PCs can also play it and have a similar experience without losing too much, without having to have that high-end PC. We hope to have that by 2.0. After the release of 2.0, getting it ready for DirectX 11 is the next step. We had the option of having DirectX 11 ready at release, but it would have made release later. So we wanted to get the new engine out and have this type of high quality for high-end/low-end. Then our next step is DirectX 11. And again, it was a priority thing. We had this schedule of how we wanted to remake the game in an unprecedented time of 2 years and to make that, we chose to do that first and then go to DirectX 11. But we do promise that we will do it. It's not one of those things where, "But well, yeah, 11, yeah, whatever blah blah..."

You can find this at the end of the first post if you click the following link.
http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/107497-FFXIV-Naoki-Yoshida-Interview-Transcription

[tymora]

I thought Yoshi-P mentioned specially that DX11 will be supported in 2.0 with the new engine...or did I mis-read something?

[Fear]

DirectX 11 support is coming AFTER 2.0 hits, thats good enough for me.

[Jinko]

I'm gunna go find the oldest thread on the forums and bump it -.-

[kazaran]

Fro mthe Devloeprs forum, they are usign the base engine of luminous to rework FFXIV. However all key aspects of the engine are not fully ready to convert current game data over to utilize Direct x 11. The core is made for it, but a lot has be be reworked. THe core can also use opengl, which is what will be the PS3 version, but some aspects of Direct x will be missing from the console port. As the engine is further modified so will FFXIV

It going to take time. THere will be big changes in 2.0 and bigger changes over time.

[Soukyuu]

I've been thinking... SE is a console-oriented company and they obviously have openGL experience from programming for the PS3 (PS2, too? idk). So WHY are they forcing themselves to write the game in directX? openGL can do the same things DX does, and from what I saw, DX is more backwards than openGL, imho.

[Fear]

I've been thinking... SE is a console-oriented company and they obviously have openGL experience from programming for the PS3 (PS2, too? idk). So WHY are they forcing themselves to write the game in directX? openGL can do the same things DX does, and from what I saw, DX is more backwards than openGL, imho.

As far as I understand OpenGL is harder to program for if the hardware will vary alot, for PS3 its no prob because all PS3s are the same, but for PCs DirectX is much easier (and updated more) for a bigger variety of hardware

[Soukyuu]

As far as I understand OpenGL is harder to program for if the hardware will vary alot, for PS3 its no prob because all PS3s are the same, but for PCs DirectX is much easier (and updated more) for a bigger variety of hardware

Isn't it all the same though? all you need is a special openGL version, just like you need DX9 for most games, and any card on the market that is powerful enough has this version. openGL shouldn't be different in that aspect.

[Rydin]

DirectX is easier in a weird kind of way....
OpenGL is open source, but many of the extensions are patented, and many advanced features are not so standard

DirectX also gives the developer direct control of allocating resources to the hardware... So you have the "potential" to make your game more efficient with DirectX, although that potential was obviously not realized at the launch of this game.

[Dawiichan]

The change from DirectX 10 from 9 is already a huge difference. I'm kind of soaked to see how the game will change when the game right now already looks beautiful. Specially since the variation of terrain in 2.0 is very different.