So, who cried watching the trailer?

[charliesheen]

I didn't even play the game half as much as most people who are posting on this forum... maybe even 1/4 as much... and that video was absolutely freakin' AWESOME. I can't wait for a realm reborn now.

[Vilhem]

Yep. I seriously doubt most PCs can run that cutscene in real time (which would be required for a model-swap, not to mention that they'd have to have ALL the possible chara creation options redesigned in CG detail, which would be a massive undertaking).

This. It'd be nice to see our own characters sure, but a full CG video vs game engine rendering are on two whole different levels.

To render the End of an Era at 1900 x 1080 (the highest res I believe it was made in), it'd take at last half a day, if not more. Those characters are millions of polygons, and the lighting and ambient also require significant amount of resources.

So yeah..they'd have to redraw the entire scene with more simplified visuals. While I'd love to see this with my chara, I do believe they could spend the time elsewhere, such as making a "Beginning" featuring our characters using the game engine.

I am happy I got to see a fully rendered Thancred though.... *^^*

[Eyn]

Too epic to shed tears! Still replaying the trailer

[Delsus]

no is not that simple, that cutscene is not from using the games engine, if they want to they need to make a new one in ARR. so here hoping they will!

Well yeah... I was really dumbing it down, expecting people to think they would have to use the in game engine but once they did that it's just a simple model swap that uses the character folder to insert your character in.

[Fated]

I was more captivated by the ass kicking that Bahamut gave to Eorzea. I couldn't care less about its inhabitants to be honest.

[Abriael]

Well yeah... I was really dumbing it down, expecting people to think they would have to use the in game engine but once they did that it's just a simple model swap that uses the character folder to insert your character in.

It's not a simple model swap. The whole scene would have to be rewritten to fit the in-game environment, animations would have to be remade to fit the in-game model skeletons, there are a lot of models in the trailer that don't exist in the game at all, and would have to be remade, and lighting would have to be completely repurposed to fit lower computational resources and different models.

It's a big job all right.

[EnkiOro]

My boyfriend hasn't been playing 1.0 since launch, and this morning I showed him the trailer. He cried! I was so shocked. Goes to tell you how very well done this trailer is. He doesn't even want to watch it again because he doesn't want to feel bad. ):

It was really pretty and sad. I got to the verge of crying, myself.

[Delsus]

I was more captivated by the ass kicking that Bahamut gave to Eorzea. I couldn't care less about its inhabitants to be honest.

I'll get Bahamut to give you the Megaflare to the face next time then

[Volfield]

4:30 is where i shed feels.
Such a masterpiece union.

[Amherst]

Like many others, I was fine until old Louisoix's smile at the end.