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  1. 10-14-2011 08:55 PM #11
    Betelgeuzah
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    The thing is, Crystal Tools is not an engine. It is a set of tools used by multiple graphic engines.

    Both FFXIII, FFXIV and Versus XIII use Crystal tools, but they also have their own graphic engines modified specifically for each (white, black, and for XIV... let's call it Grey engine).

    This is mostly due to the fact that it is no longer financially and technically feasible to create a new graphics engine for each game you make (like Square did back in the 90's) and their solution to this when coming to the current gen was to create a set of tool to make the development of engines more efficient.

    That concept failed in execution, but nevertheless what they have today is three graphic engines and XIV is using one of them. This is the upgraded version of said engine, and still probably using crystal tools.

    It's not a fact this is the case of course- just an informed opinion based on multiple sources.
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