How about Cloth Physicks?

[Yuni_Queen]

They could theoretically do this, but it would involve having additional bones on robes that drape when the arm is raised. I don't know how they typically handle armor changes in relation to the character skeleton, but adding/ subtracting bones, and as such redoing all animations for specific clothing items is probably not something anyone wants to do.

They would first had to specify Z vector for bones, which currently probably does not exist, since i noticed only X and Y cloth movement. And only one at a time, but i may be wrong.

[Noxifer]

That's my point tho, it's been ten years and they couldn't get the game to look like an actual PS4 game? Maybe comparing it to Uncharted 4 is abit unfair. Maybe. I guess I'm just jaded as hell.

You... didn't read Culfinrandir's post, did you? O.o because what they're saying is that it's because it's been ten years that they "couldn't get the game to look like an actual PS4 game". Because the framework for the game is more or less determined by when they start working on it -- and if you switch engine to something more up-to-date, you'll often have to recreate a lot of it from scratch.
(Unless you're like Naughty Dog who went in with a rather different approach altogether and designed their engine with the purpose of continuous updates.)

You try playing the top games of today on a five- or ten-year-old computer, and see how well that works... (Yes, I guess it's possible if you had a top-notch PC back then, but I'd wager not without tuning down the graphics quality.)
(Not saying that to be mean in any way, just as an attempt to make a comparison regarding how quickly technology -- and programming -- gets outdated.)


Regarding this topic in general... It would be awesome if they at least arranged personal cloth physics, as well as softened up a few obvious examples (wide sleeves, wide skirts when lying down, that sort of thing).

[Yuni_Queen]

That's actually interesting part.

If they could give us just personal Cloth Physics, would server get overloaded with everyones personal Physics?
Since the data woudn't be counted as PlayerNumber^PlayerNumber. Just A[PlayerNumber].

[Lemuria]

If they could give us just personal Cloth Physics, would server get overloaded with everyones personal Physics?

If they did that, it would be entirely client side, so the server wouldn't have anything to do with it.

[Niwashi]

If they did that, it would be entirely client side, so the server wouldn't have anything to do with it.

Being client side (and having a fallback version like used for other characters) also means that it could be enabled or disabled according to the capabilities of the machine you're running on. Turn it on for a top end gaming rig and off for an old clunker that can barely load the game as is.

[Culfinrandir]

Well it could be the same as cloth physics if you treat long hair as say like a piece of cloth as it sort of does now. Proper hair is made of thousands of tiny strands so if SE would implement proper hair it would take enormous amounts of time to process.

TressFX & TressFX Hair would benefit the game immensely. Alas, they are AMD features & we all know that SE seem to favour Nvidia when it comes to FFXIV. Nvidia do have HairWorks as part of GameWorks but, unlike AMD's TressFX, it's proprietary software. SE already licence at least part of GameWorks as they've implemented HBAO+.

Why SE haven't worked more closely with AMD given that their technology is used in the PS4 is beyond me. GPUOpen is great technology & completely free of licencing issues.

[Yasuhiro]

That's my point tho, it's been ten years and they couldn't get the game to look like an actual PS4 game? Maybe comparing it to Uncharted 4 is abit unfair. Maybe. I guess I'm just jaded as hell.

You... didn't read Culfinrandir's post, did you? O.o because what they're saying is that it's because it's been ten years that they "couldn't get the game to look like an actual PS4 game".

Again, false information. I just said the game has not been in development for ten years
Versus XIII and XV are two COMPLETELY different games. People need to stop this meme.

[Yuni_Queen]

Why SE haven't worked more closely with AMD given that their technology is used in the PS4 is beyond me. GPUOpen is great technology & completely free of licencing issues.

Probably due to contract that was made before SE even considered making a PS4 release. Maybe they didn't expect it will go so well.
But when i read about new features, and there was HBAO+ i was kind of surprised.
Quess they starts to think about serious graphical improvments over next expansion.

Thou indeed Cloth Physics may not be included, until Yoshi will clearly state, that next expansion won't cover PS3.

[Khalithar]

Make it an option for people who can actually use it? I'd like to benefit from my higher end PC parts.

+1 to this.

[Culfinrandir]

Again, false information. I just said the game has not been in development for ten years
Versus XIII and XV are two COMPLETELY different games. People need to stop this meme.

YOU clearly didn't read my post either - if you had you'd see that XV is based on Luminous Studio from 2012. Yes, there was an update from the original Versus XIII engine (Crystal Tools from 2005) but it's STILL a 5 year old game. Undoubtedly there'll still be some ideas or models that originated in Crystal Tools which have been ported to Luminous Studio because that's how it was designed.

There's nothing false in that whatsoever. XV *is* using resources *at least* 5 years old.