Thread: Coming in Version 2.0!

I hope there are some interesting adjustments for lalafell builds. I demand my cookie/cake loving friend make his character more pudgey to fit his short, jolly tubby man character. (You know who you are.)

I cannot wait. I saw the E3 video of the new engine they will be using. It makes FF14 look like 7 by comparison. It takes this game up to Advent Children's level. Cannot wait for the new site and new trailers to pop.
I may need to buy a second graphics card for this.... only score an 8k on the current benchmark. I'm going to have to see what the new one looks like when they retool it.

Originally Posted by DemonForest

I cannot wait. I saw the E3 video of the new engine they will be using. It makes FF14 look like 7 by comparison.

They are not using that engine for this game.

Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

They are not using that engine for this game.

They're using a small part of it actually. I remember reading that they're using a small part of it for the lighting and shadow effects. But not to the effect that DemonForest is making it sound. =P

Originally Posted by DemonForest

I thought they said they were going with the Luminus engine? *sigh* I have been wrong before but I thought that was what they said.

If I'm not mistaken they're just using a small portion of it for the lighting and shading effects. I could be wrong myself, but that's the last I heard/seen of it.

Originally Posted by DemonForest

I thought they said they were going with the Luminus engine? *sigh* I have been wrong before but I thought that was what they said.

They've never said that. People working on Luminous have worked on the new engine though, offering technical assistance.

Shaders and lighting use the same technology from what I've understood. Also looks like it, both are mind-blowing in the pics.

Originally Posted by DemonForest

I thought they said they were going with the Luminus engine? *sigh* I have been wrong before but I thought that was what they said.

Unfortunately, no. They "borrowed" a large amount of the staff that worked on the Luminous Engine to work on the FFXIV 2.0 engine, but it is by no means the same engine. Several chunks of code have been cannibalized from Luminous, but the FFXIV 2.0 engine doesn't even officially have a name.

Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

They are not using that engine for this game.

Actually, they're using a custom engine with elements of that engine they showed off.