Why DirectX 11 will save the video card industry and why you don't care - by clearing
Yakoob on 25/7/2009 at 04:27
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Rather than try to make hardware so awesome that everything looks real, we could do the same thing on current hardware by finding a different way to do it. What if instead of animating something to walk we taught it to walk? rather than gliding on a surface, give it's joints proper boundaries and write up an AI smart enough to figure out how to use its own limbs to really walk.
Funnily enough, trying to teach an AI how to walk actually requires more hardware than making "everything look real" via standard animation.
Papy on 25/7/2009 at 04:45
Quote Posted by Yakoob
Funnily enough, trying to teach an AI how to walk actually requires more hardware than making "everything look real" via standard animation.
You are probably right, but the same way the first 3D images in video games were pre-rendered, it could be possible to make a computer calculate a lot of different animation instead of doing it in real time.
Fragony on 26/7/2009 at 10:39
I think there will always be a market for the latest and greatest graphical wizardry, some people love that shit, and spend hours trying to tweak them to suck out all the technical awesomness the game has to offer. Cysis has been here for a while, it's waiting for the next big thing.
