Quote Originally Posted by Wynn View Post
The more I look at this screenshot, the more it is looking like just a really good piece of art again. Especially when you see it up close. The UI is not crisp at all like you would expect a UI to be. It just blends into the rest of the scene. In a real screenshot the UI jumps out at you, an obvious overlay. I dunno...

In any case, whether this is a real SS or not, if the game looks like that in 2.0 it will get a thumbs up from me.
It's real, as well as:
GameWatch - from the picture the quality looks different
YoshiP - With current drawing engine we can’t display the shadows correctly. With the new engine light areas will be light, dark areas will be dark; we will make this part work and make sure it stands out. Also having ambient occlusion
And

GameWatch - Are the background also real time?
YoshiP - This screenshots background is real time.
GameWatch - With PC version you can still do 60 FPS?
YoshiP - Yes you can, however with current engine it uses too much video chip power. We will be carefure (laugh) I mentioned earlier but after receiving requests from players we added a limiter to limit to 30FPS. When setting at 30FPS I think the fan sound will be different. That part was also weak point about the drawing engine. For example this screenshot effect, this effect is already in FFXIV.
GameWatch - with shadow it looks totally different.
YoshiP - I beleive it’s different. Current engine’s processing for effect is low; we remade the effect engine as well and shader amount will change. However this means the character hair will also be affected so at the timing of the New FFXIV in order to listen to players request we want to allow players to go through character making again.