Square Enix, stop pulling my leg.

Not sure if old news, bu I seriously doubt that this is their newly announced "Luminous" engine.

Quote from PC Gamer:

Square-Enix have been demonstrating their new graphics engine, called 'Luminous' at a press conference in Japan. The video above, brought to us by Develop shows off some impressive technology, virtually indistinguishable from the real location. Shame they chose such a boring place. Check inside for more details on the technology and side by side comparisons of real life locations and in-engine footage. The engine is designed to support DirectX 11, and Edge say it 'includes cloth and fluid simulation, realtime reflections and highly efficient tessellation techniques that lower the level of detail of 3D models with minimal memory usage cost.' In addition to support for procedural animation and advanced AI. The most startling fact is that the efficient nature of the engine means that despite its impressive graphics, Square-Enix believe it will actually lower development costs significantly and scale fully from casual to AAA game. Although the Luminous Engine is being developed in Japan, Gamasutra say Square-Enix have been sharing the technology with its western owned studios, such as IO and Crystal Dynamics.

A video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_fbvW0RNjw&feature=player_embedded

The 8th generation of video game graphics confirmed!

Awww yeah PC graphics!

And that third shot is a little messed up. Plus he left his camera bag inside! :o

Next Final Fantasy confirmed 2020?

Is that real life...or is that the engine?

peterw007

I looked closely, the right side is just the based-off photo, the right is the engine, jaggies.

[QUOTE="peterw007"]

Is that real life...or is that the engine?

ExESGO

I looked closely, the right side is just the based-off photo, the right is the engine, jaggies.

Yeah, I realized that. That's why I deleted the post. But those graphics still look incredible for real-time.

[QUOTE="ExESGO"]

[QUOTE="peterw007"]

Is that real life...or is that the engine?

peterw007

I looked closely, the right side is just the based-off photo, the right is the engine, jaggies.

Yeah, I realized that. That's why I deleted the post. But those graphics still look incredible for real-time.

Indeed they do.

If only they smoothed out the jaggs, I wouldn't know the difference.

those are game graphics?

if so then thats the best looking thing ive ever seen.

I thought that was real. Wow.

I wish it ended with Sora walking out of the hallway. KHIII confirmed.

We'll be able to do that on the next gen phones.Method214

If you wanna carry around a phone the size of an Xbox controller sure.

Damn it looks so real.

[QUOTE="peterw007"]

Is that real life...or is that the engine?

ExESGO

I looked closely, the right side is just the based-off photo, the right is the engine, jaggies.

I don't mind having a crappy story in a game with graphics like those oO

When I first saw the preview video I thought it was just a dude with a camcorder. I doubt the games will look quite that good because games have a lot more going on than a room, but that's still beyond impressive.