Coming in Version 2.0!

[DemonForest]

I thought they said they were going with the Luminus engine? *sigh* I have been wrong before but I thought that was what they said.

[Kyuuen]

I thought they said they were going with the Luminus engine? *sigh* I have been wrong before but I thought that was what they said.

If I'm not mistaken they're just using a small portion of it for the lighting and shading effects. I could be wrong myself, but that's the last I heard/seen of it.

[Betelgeuzah]

I thought they said they were going with the Luminus engine? *sigh* I have been wrong before but I thought that was what they said.

They've never said that. People working on Luminous have worked on the new engine though, offering technical assistance.

Shaders and lighting use the same technology from what I've understood. Also looks like it, both are mind-blowing in the pics.

[Hulan]

I thought they said they were going with the Luminus engine? *sigh* I have been wrong before but I thought that was what they said.

Unfortunately, no. They "borrowed" a large amount of the staff that worked on the Luminous Engine to work on the FFXIV 2.0 engine, but it is by no means the same engine. Several chunks of code have been cannibalized from Luminous, but the FFXIV 2.0 engine doesn't even officially have a name.