Curious on new Graphical Engine

[Akira_Tenshi]

Look at Answa's post four above yours. They're not using Luminous, but rather working with members of their team to create a custom engine.

"In an interview with Famitsu, Tetsuya Nomura reveals that Versus XIII's lightning is being redone, and they're using Luminous for this purpose. Luminous is good with lightning, says Nomura. Versus aims for photo realism, so it places greater importance on lighting."

This is where I got that information, maybe it's not accurate though, I don't know.

http://andriasang.com/comy9x/

[Chrees]

"In an interview with Famitsu, Tetsuya Nomura reveals that Versus XIII's lightning is being redone, and they're using Luminous for this purpose. Luminous is good with lightning, says Nomura. Versus aims for photo realism, so it places greater importance on lighting."

This is where I got that information, maybe it's not accurate though, I don't know.

http://andriasang.com/comy9x/

Oh, I was just referring to your second part. Sorry, should've clarified that! FFXIV won't be using Luminous, so it wouldn't be the first game to fully use Luminous. :P

Thanks for the link though! I didn't know that about Versus XIII.

[Fear]

Basicly FFXIV is using a modified version of Luminous, since Luminous is designed for consoles.

[Akira_Tenshi]

Why did they create Luminos if they aren't using it? lol

[Zenaku]

Why did they create Luminos if they aren't using it? lol

They have other MMO coming up i thought it was going to use luminos maybe?

[Fear]

Why did they create Luminos if they aren't using it? lol

The Luminous engine is designed for single player RPG's, most likely Final Fantasy 15+, it isn't made for MMO's which is why they're customizing a seperate version of it for FFXIV.

[Nayt]

As stated before, in for instance Gamerescape's interview, the luminous isn't intended for MMO's. Though FFXIV uses a rebuilt version of it. They mentioned they want it to be able to display up towards 400 characters simultaneously, which would be quite impressive, I have to say.

[Vaer]

As stated before, in for instance Gamerescape's interview, the luminous isn't intended for MMO's. Though FFXIV uses a rebuilt version of it. They mentioned they want it to be able to display up towards 400 characters simultaneously, which would be quite impressive, I have to say.

That would be ridiculous. Last game I played with no character on screen cap by default was RIFT, and when there were 50+ people fighting the same bazillion HP boss it was a slideshow with all the butt humping and skill/spell effects.

I will have a doubletake if SE manages to bring out an engine that scales well and isn't horribly optimized. Coming from XI, I'm used to their coding. XIV has similar "issues" that XI had.

[Wolfie]

That would be ridiculous. Last game I played with no character on screen cap by default was RIFT, and when there were 50+ people fighting the same bazillion HP boss it was a slideshow with all the butt humping and skill/spell effects.

I will have a doubletake if SE manages to bring out an engine that scales well and isn't horribly optimized. Coming from XI, I'm used to their coding. XIV has similar "issues" that XI had.

RIFT's engine was pretty poorly optimized. WOW and Aion used to have the same problems with displaying lots of characters on screen (WOW raids in early BC were awful, and Aion fortress raids were impossible), but they're at the point where you CAN have 200-300 characters on screen and still have an acceptable experience.

But it took the Aion and WOW devs ~2-3 years to get that kind of optimization. I hope Yoshi's team is good enough to give us optimization on day one.

[ellohwell]

Why is everyone talking about luminous?

It's obvious that to get a game out by next year they are just going to rework Crystal Tools.