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Title: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: ogar78 on August 01, 2011, 07:57:34 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gAbgBu8R4&feature=player_embedded#at=407 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gAbgBu8R4&feature=player_embedded#at=407)

Title: Re: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: Agent4054 on August 02, 2011, 06:20:57 AM

Yeah saw this yesterday. I'm not sold on this yet. It's cool, but I don't see this as being a viable option for AAA game engines. They make no mention about animation.. and I can tell you, NO ONE would want to weight paint a character rig of 500,000 polys or more. Hell, a 12k character is frustrating as Crap. Yeah, cg movie characters do have poly counts upwards of 500k-1m, but you only have to rig a couple of those. Games are a different matter.

And then there is the point that this particular tech (this exact project) has been in development since 2003, and it really hasn't changed that much since then. All this current buzz around it is just a resurgence; most likely pushed so it could be seen by investors.

But we'll see. I'm not holding my breath.

Title: Re: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: Five Aces on August 02, 2011, 08:09:05 AM

Sounds like another project offset (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset_Software) to me too.

Title: Re: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: Agent4054 on August 02, 2011, 08:25:37 AM

Yeah, except Project Offset showed MAJOR potential; A lot more than this thing. There was actual proof of concept and Intel Fudgeed it up. The technology looked pretty solid. I'm very bitter about that whole thing.

Title: Re: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: Broken on August 02, 2011, 08:48:45 AM

AnimePron

Title: Re: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: The Shoctor on August 02, 2011, 09:37:08 AM

ZOMG! Tentacles look so real!!

Title: Re: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: Agent4054 on August 02, 2011, 02:56:20 PM

Actually doing more reading up on this, skeletal mesh animation seems to be out of the question. This is actually a voxel-based engine, doesn't deal with polygons at all. It just converts poly meshes to voxel, which strips any possibility of having an object with a bone structure(characters/weapons/vehicles/etc).

Notch describes the other flaws in this engine much better than I can: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8386977075/its-a-scam (http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8386977075/its-a-scam)

Title: Re: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: Five Aces on August 05, 2011, 08:49:03 AM

Voxelstein3D nice...

Title: Re: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: Broken on August 08, 2011, 12:17:38 PM

But tentacles are still in

Title: Re: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: Dwg115 on August 14, 2011, 10:50:53 AM

Euclideon & Unlimited Detail - Bruce Dell Interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVB1ayT6Fdc#ws)

apparently this video talks about all the misconceptions that people are having about the tech.  show it in real time too!

Title: Re: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: Agent4054 on August 14, 2011, 01:00:36 PM

Alright so that does clear up some stuff. It does seem neat, but I'm still wary about it. If they can get some artists to show off capability on par with current game gen stuff, then I might put some of that doubt aside, because as it looks now, it's pretty damn ugly.

Title: Re: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: Dwg115 on August 15, 2011, 07:22:46 AM

Quote from: Agent4054 on August 14, 2011, 01:00:36 PM

Alright so that does clear up some stuff. It does seem neat, but I'm still wary about it. If they can get some artists to show off capability on par with current game gen stuff, then I might put some of that doubt aside, because as it looks now, it's pretty damn ugly.

yes i agree ugly as fudge!  You should get your hands ona copy and purdy it up a bit for them:) 

Title: Re: Little Australian games company invents technology 100,000 times better [HD]
Post by: Broken on August 15, 2011, 09:50:16 AM

But tentacles are still in