Curious on new Graphical Engine

[Fear]

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

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Nayt]

Why is everyone talking about luminous?

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

Oh crawl back to your mud, troll. Do you even read or do you just choose to ignore it to make missinforming posts? Yoshida already said what they're using.

One of the reasons we had some trouble with the original launch of FFXIV was because we went through Crystal Tools and it was an engine that wasn’t really optimized for an MMO and so we’re currently working with technologists that are working on Luminous to make us a custom, optimal engine that will work for FFXIV.

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/2011/10...ere/#more-9022

[Fear]

Why is everyone talking about luminous?

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

Did you not read the part thats been posted? Why the hell would the Dev team alter and reuse the game engine thats holding this game back?....

They've already said they're working with the people who designed the Luminous engine to customize their own version of Luminous for FFXIV

[Jinko]

If it requires hardware DX11, I can guarantee that this isn't the engine they'll pick, as they've said one of the goals is to lower the entry bar to allow lower spec players to play. Requiring a brand new graphics card, even a low end one, is not in line with what they said.

Software DX11 requirement with lower hardware requirement (fallbacks) is unlikely too, because there are also still people running Windows XP, which won't get anything newer than DX9. The official requirements for FFXIV as it exists now includes Windows XP.

Doesn't matter really Direct X11 is backward compatible, its not a requirement in any game, not that it matters they aren't using it at least for the short term.