When PC games will reach CGI level?

By 2009 I believe.baddog121390

Every time a new generation of consoles come out, PCs seem to jump a "generation" too. We were playing Doom3 one minute, and soon it'll be Crysis. A big leap there, and so, I think that just after the next generation of consoles come out, there will be a big leap in PC hardware, meaning current CGI quality games, hence I voted 2015. However, by that time, CGI as we know it now will have andvanced so much, PC games will look crap in comparison. What a viscous, viscous cirlce! Matmoo_Wii60

Um....

How about never, and that goes for all games.

Simply because, CGI will progress just as much as real time. They could make a Toy Story game today in real time that looks exactly like the movie. Games now have much more detail than the CGI scenes from Final Fantasy 7.

If you mean when will games look like the CGI that is out right now, prolly a good 10 years off. I really don't see CGI being used down the line at all in games. More and more developers are using the in game engine to progress the plot.

Nothing takes me out of an experience more than when a game cuts to a highly detailed prerendered sequence and then dumps you back into the far less detailed real time engine.

cgi gets better too doesn't it?Ontain

Judging on Crysis I would say 2015 the latest...True_Gamer_

im sorry but no game will look as beutiful as this..'

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OW02BWFRnkw

im sorry but no game will look as beutiful as this..'

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OW02BWFRnkw

poopinloop32

Too me, CGI looks almost photo realistic. The first question should be... when will CGI reach photo realism? and then we need to ask, when can we render that same CGI in realtime?

I'm thinking the answer to the 1st questing is very soon. Some of the pre-rendered CGI screens I've seen are amazing. For example: http://www.digg.com/gaming_news/Unbelievable_CGI_Image

[QUOTE="poopinloop32"]

im sorry but no game will look as beutiful as this..'

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OW02BWFRnkw

True_Gamer_

[QUOTE="True_Gamer_"][QUOTE="poopinloop32"]

im sorry but no game will look as beutiful as this..'

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OW02BWFRnkw

poopinloop32

Holy Crap!!! Are those two mugshots CGI or in-engine? And what game is that, they look amazing.Spartan070

Holy Crap!!! Are those two mugshots CGI or in-engine? And what game is that, they look amazing.Spartan070

[QUOTE="Spartan070"]Holy Crap!!! Are those two mugshots CGI or in-engine? And what game is that, they look amazing.AlbertE-

[QUOTE="Spartan070"]Holy Crap!!! Are those two mugshots CGI or in-engine? And what game is that, they look amazing.Planeforger

28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 12 seconds. That is the day from on forwards when PC graphics will become perfect.TNT_Slug

[QUOTE="TNT_Slug"] 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 12 seconds. That is the day from on forwards when PC graphics will become perfect.Spartan070

[QUOTE="TNT_Slug"] 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 12 seconds. That is the day from on forwards when PC graphics will become perfect.Spartan070

[QUOTE="Spartan070"][QUOTE="TNT_Slug"] 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 12 seconds. That is the day from on forwards when PC graphics will become perfect.TNT_Slug

[QUOTE="TNT_Slug"][QUOTE="Spartan070"][QUOTE="TNT_Slug"] 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 12 seconds. That is the day from on forwards when PC graphics will become perfect.Spartan070

Which cg level? Now we are aproaching 1997 game cgs level and around 1994 movie cg levelAdrianWerner

CGI = computer generated image

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Hammerofjustice

Which cg level? Now we are aproaching 1997 game cgs level and around 1994 movie cg levelAdrianWerner

CGI has not been maxed out yet. Therefore do you mean when will PC games have the same quality of graphics as CGI quality at present? If that is what you mean you will not see a playable game with graphics at full CGI quality that we see right now until 2012 or so. The speed/power of a PC doubles every 18 months. Therefore you can caculate how long it will take.

How long will CGI take to reach photo realism. In some ways it already has. But the human skin is still a big problem. Getter pretty darn close though with real time artifical photons. It takes forever to render just one image however with this type of tecnology, so it will take a very powerful machine to run it in real time.

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]Which cg level? Now we are aproaching 1997 game cgs level and around 1994 movie cg levelTrue_Gamer_

Looking at this CGI forum and found this...:


I think it will be a good 10 years for video games to reach that level with a good frame rate, large outdoor environment, high resolution, etc.
Disturbed_Dude