What type of game is heavenly sword? I haven't followed the game as I had no intention of getting a ps3 until the price dropped. If I can find it for the right price I'll pick one up though.Brooklyn2700The gameplay is similar to that of God of War. It looks excellent.
Heavenly Sword graphics : are they CG or real-time? (56k warning)
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Just thought I'd clear this up as there seems to be some confusion over the recently released screenshots:
CGI, E3 2005, opening scene:
Real-time cutscene screenshot from the recently released "cinematic production" video:
Though released recently, this build is not the current build. Even though they made the production video awhile ago, Sony had not allowed its release until a few days ago.
Ninja Peonic: "Just because you saw the other images this week, doesn't mean we made them this week."
Ninja Tameem: "It all comes down to lighting, dof tweaking and blend-shape tweaking none of which took place for the "Cinematic Production" teaser."
Real-time cutscene screenshot released today, captured from the game build as of yesterday:
Ninja Peonic: "The image released today was captured yesterday."
But the key question is: will the game look like that during gameplay?
Tameem's response:
"The DOF in-game is good but not THAT good. Better specular on the eyes is something we are working on and other techy bits to help improve the lighting response on the blend-shapes. If these come together, then the layman should not be able to distinguish that screenshot from the final result. Fingers crossed!!!"
So, the game is still a work in progress, but they've made tremendous advancements. And the improvement of the quality of real-time cinematics means a corresponding improvement in in-game graphics. However, do not expect in-game graphics to completely match the real-time cutscenes. However, as Tameem said, if he pulls out all the tricks, hopefully we won't be able to tell too much of a difference.
Hope that clears things up :)
All links to dev quotes may be found here:
http://www.ninjatheory.com/forums/showthread.php?t=840
fuzzysquash
In engine ? Maybe, nvidia demos for 7800GTX show same quality, but in game graphics ?? Not until PS4
[QUOTE="fuzzysquash"]Just thought I'd clear this up as there seems to be some confusion over the recently released screenshots:
CGI, E3 2005, opening scene:
When the trailer came out, didn't Ninja Theory admit that this part was CGI because Facial Animations weren't finished yet?
Frame rate will be locked at 30 Hz, no doubt about that.
everything (that is opaque) cast shadows over everything (that is opaque), hair included, there are not precomputed shadows in the game. If you don't see shadows is cause in that particular shot shadow maps params were sitll not tweaked or cause shadows are casting in another direction..
It's taken from a realtime cutscene and slightly touched up, it should represents how she will look when we ship the game (artists are tweaking everything..)
nAo at Beyond3Dwe don't have 2 versions of the skin shader, the same shader is being used for cut scene and also when you play the game.
Cutscenes use in game engine, nothing more, nothing less.
DeanoC at Beyond3DIt depends, often higher detailed models are used in the cut scenes..so that kind of graphic it will be the same while i play the game ?? If i move the camera in game in front the face of her i will see the insane detail ??? :shock: :shock: :shock:
We have a custom skin shader, it simulates the effect of Sub Surface Shatter but isn't doing anything clever or complex like actually properly modeling it... Its an art tuned shader rather than a technically correct one. The initial work was done by our old Art Director Hughes Giborie (I don't know how to spell his second name he's french!! ) who now works for Digital Eclipse over in Canada. Since then its been tuned by a number of artists and programmer and lets our awesome character artists achieve some wonderful results (and I'm not saying that cos I worked on it, cos i didn't).
~19Gigabytes at the mo... (with game data compression and some fmvs and audio but not all)how much space takes this game on BD @the moment?
(Heroes clip) Its a clip from a demo we call the software showcase demo (It was a internal Sony thing a couple of months ago) its a lot longer than that obviously but that's the rope slide ninja sequence (what we call those push button on screen things) from the walkways level. --- Yeah, November(ish) maybe the month before, not sure exactly...
Ninja Tam at NinjaTheory.comDraw Distance is 10Km to be slightly more precise ;) tho in that level (Heroes clip) there is nothing beyond about 5Kms --- To be fair there not a lot out there at that distance, we have a sector system so we just use that distance for background things not gameplay items.
NB: DOF is Depth of Field as in depth blut, obviously the gameplay got a lot less blur but that can't really be claimed to be a bad thing.It all comes down to lighting, dof tweaking and blend-shape tweaking none of which took place for the "Cinematic Production" teaser.
And now a picture of the Voice and motion capture actress they used as inspiration for the main character's skinThe DOF in-game is good but not THAT good. Better specular on the eyes is something we are working on and other techy bits to help improve the lighting response on the blend-shapes. If these come together, then the layman should not be able to distinguish that screenshot from the final result. Fingers crossed!!! Tameem
The devs said: Only touch up work done on the image was a quick re-do of the specular highlighting on the eyes, the blurring on the background, and then resizing and jpeg'ing.That Image was exactly from the video I was referring to.
In game cut scene
In game cut scene touched up
It's possible that the upper picture is from an older build, but it still looks good, if they are really aming for graphics like the bottom then that's damn impressive.
skyform
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