Thread: Coming in Version 2.0!

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 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.

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 Gramul

I heard they where basicly restructuring the old engine to better fit an MMO.
I can't imagine starting an MMO engine from scratch would take only a year and a half.

Engines don't actually take that long to make especially if you're designing one specifically for one game when said game is already produced. Borrowing toolsets from another could speed it up though.

Thanks for keeping this list updated. Was a good read.

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This info needs to be on the front page.