DirectX 11 footage

[Galliano]

that is a concept UI, added on top of a still image of 2.0 while still in testing phase. Closest chance you ever have to getting a UI similar to that, is if they ever allow player made UI's to be added to game.

Half past never. That UI looks pretty awful.

I didn't mean the UI, I meant the shading and lighting.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I didn't mean the UI, I meant the shading and lighting.

As I said, half past never. The lighting and shading was badly optimized, despite it looking so good. Yoshi seems content with how the current visuals are right now and any improvements are going to be minor at best.

[Shioban]

I didn't mean the UI, I meant the shading and lighting.

That's not an in-engine rendering.

That's essentially a "freeze-framed" GCI cutscene you could say. It's been deliberately tailor made and rendered as a still image to use for a UI concept afterwards, (most likely) the UI was imposed on top in Illustrator/Photoshop.

Once screenshots of 2.0 we're first released, people began immediately accused it of having lower quality textures than 1.0, even though it's near impossible to judge such a thing from simple screenshots of a yet unreleased game. Speculation of 2.0's graphics even included a discussion about the grass! It got pretty crazy. In the end, I think everyone who played 1.0 would agree that overall 2.0 looks considerably better, and that the accusations about a visual downgrade we're premature. We should probably reserve judgement about the DX11 version until we've seen it first hand ourselves.



That's not a game image, rather a concept drawing of how the game would look. Not an actual rendered image.

That's not a drawing, that's a CGI render, everything has simply been posed with effects 'added' in, most likely by the CGI team (or even just the development team screwing around with still-frame rendering tricks in something like 3DS-Max).

However, most easily argued the texture quality as well as the way the current deferred rendering system handles lighting/shadows and shading isn't as nice as some parts of 1.23, there are ways to crawl that back a bit, but we're unlikely to see it for a long time. The most notable loss of detail is simply how the lighting system used in 1.23 affected bump/specular maps as well as shader effects. Sadly it's downfall was in the general rendering of the actual physical scene itself where it simply looked washed out or buggy/choppy at the best of times.