New Screenshots from E3

[Kristina_Farron]

Today's SE's technical demo for their new engine "Luminous Studio" is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=UVX0OUO9ptU

But few months ago CRep on JP forum has confirmed that FFXIV 2.0 DOES NOT USE Luminous Studio BECAUSE THAT IS FOR OFFLINE GAMES.

2.0 use its own engine optimized for MMO requirements.

[Croy]

Today's SE's technical demo for their new engine "Luminous Studio" is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=UVX0OUO9ptU

But few months ago CRep on JP forum has confirmed that FFXIV 2.0 DOES NOT USE Luminous Studio BECAUSE THAT IS FOR OFFLINE GAMES.

2.0 use its own engine optimized for MMO requirements.

I was under the impression FFXIV is using a completely new engine BUT it has been created in collaboration with the same group of developers who made the Luminous engine. IE not the luminous engine, but might be using technology used in Luminous but its specifically optimized for this game and its parameters.

In fact I found the quote from the interview!

Finalfantasy14.eu :

Is the new graphic engine, about which you’re talking, linked to the Luminous studio graphic engine, that Square Enix announced a couple of months ago?

Naoki yoshida :

We have been receiving this question a lot during the media tour, probably due to the announcement of the two consoles we made and the announce that the Luminous studio made was very close in timing . People are thinking these two are related to each other. Also because Mr. Hashimoto is related to 14 as well. However the Luminous studio engine is related to the console game, so what they are trying to achieve with that engine is to make the still graphic really beautiful, while for MMOs the most important thing is to have lots of characters and high quality graphics so the aim is slightly different. So because of that we have two different engines.

Although it’s not two different engines, the people who are working on the FFXIV graphics engine also belong to Luminious studios. So some people are working on two projects. Some of the writing/coding we use for the engines and the shader are not quite two different engines. You can consider them brothers. The engine for xiv is more focused for mmos.

http://forum.finalfantasy14.eu/viewt...hp?f=20&t=1993