When will Graphics become Photo Realistic?

I was playing Crysis earlier today, and from a distance everything looks perfect. If you start zooming into stuff though, it looks less and less great, and this is the best looking video game currently. Here's a photo of some small leaves I zoomed in on, and then shot. When do you think video games will get to the point where every single small detail in the game is almost completely realistic to what the actual world looks like?

EWWWWWW. wii look much betterNintendoBoy1996

Don't make it so obvious that you're a fakeboy.

Also, we'll get photorealistic games once technology isn't hindered by consoles anymore.

[QUOTE="thegoldenpoo"][QUOTE="NintendoBoy1996"]EWWWWWW. wii look much betterNintendoBoy1996

That's not even an in-engine screenshot nor is it as close to the textures as that screenshot is.

http://www.gamershell.com/pc/crysis/screenshots.html

Imagine how God-awful SSBB would look if you could zoom in on the textures. Ugh ... It makes me sick just thinking about it.

[QUOTE="thegoldenpoo"][QUOTE="NintendoBoy1996"]EWWWWWW. wii look much betterMGS4-SS

He's not being sarcastic. He's a known fakeboy that constantly makes outrageous statements like this.

hopefully neverAdmiralWolverin

You mean proper 100% photo-realism powered by a GPU? probably never, or at least not for a long long time or until the interface changes somehow. Graphics that look believable? (as in Crysis level +) not next gen (or at least not the start-middle end of next gen), then gen after that.

Look at CGI in films and add 10 years. This generation is looking as good as "A Bug's Life" and Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars. Still not as good as Gollum.

I think games will become too expensive to make long before we hit photo realism.

Look at CGI in films and add 10 years. This generation is looking as good as "A Bug's Life" and Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars. Still not as good as Gollum.

LoserMike

Faces like 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' in 10 years? sounds plausable enough, but will the processors be able to run 100's at once all in fluid animation? Textures have had a leap this genereation and I expect that to continue.

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nVidiaGaMer

[QUOTE="LoserMike"]

Look at CGI in films and add 10 years. This generation is looking as good as "A Bug's Life" and Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars. Still not as good as Gollum.

alia999

Faces like 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' in 10 years? sounds plausable enough, but will the processors be able to run 100's at once all in fluid animation? Textures have had a leap this genereation and I expect that to continue.

[QUOTE="AdmiralWolverin"]hopefully neverLittleHands134

Somehow I coudn't imagine it being to good for your eyes.

I'm wondering when games will look as good as movies.:?

They can probably do it now just not in an open world....if you tasked the crysis engine to do nothing but render two boxers in a ring or some other scene that's not overly complex (at least compared to an open world) you could get a massive amount of detail.

Thing is without taking up entire harddrives worth of tga files it still wouldn't hold up to say taking a sniper rifle and zooming into the wall. In otherwords there's always a limit to how much detail you can put in, but alot of what makes something photo-realistic (in gaming) is basically what keeps you from seeing the little details (fixed cameras, third person views etc.).

The Crysis engine couldn't render two boxes that well. It's an engine designed for open-world environments. It doesn't contain the technology to render the boxes in that way.

When will people stop talking about things they don't understand?

Never. CGI movies are light years ahead of gaming in terms of visuals, and even the best looking CGI movies don't come close to being photorealistic when rendering people. And until you can make cgi people that look and move like real people, you will never have photo realism.

BUt that also raises the question about whether or not photo realism is even necessary. I mean, who really cares? When I play a game I want to enter a new world with new possibilities. I don't really want realism. I want to be able to get shot 50 times and have my health restored by eating a sandwich. I want super powers and/or the ability to steal cars and drive people only to escape the law by finding a star in an alley.

The Crysis engine couldn't render two boxes that well. It's an engine designed for open-world environments. It doesn't contain the technology to render the boxes in that way.

When will people stop talking about things they don't understand?

DeckardLee

You can use cryengine to do anything the big things about cryengine 2 was dynamic lights shadows, AI logic, physics/particle effecets, animation blending, support for mutliple 64 bit proccessors etc etc. hell I could make 2D games in cryengine 2....Where does it say anywhere that cryengine 2 is only for open worlds? Hell through the testing of it 90% of the demo's you'd see was just one guy being rendered.

You mistaking the crysis sandbox editor for the actual engine or something?

Never. CGI movies are light years ahead of gaming in terms of visuals, and even the best looking CGI movies don't come close to being photorealistic when rendering people. And until you can make cgi people that look and move like real people, you will never have photo realism.

BUt that also raises the question about whether or not photo realism is even necessary. I mean, who really cares? When I play a game I want to enter a new world with new possibilities. I don't really want realism. I want to be able to get shot 50 times and have my health restored by eating a sandwich. I want super powers and/or the ability to steal cars and drive people only to escape the law by finding a star in an alley.

ZIMdoom

I was about to type the exact same thing.

Maybe in another gen or two. I just hope photo realism doesn't become the norm. I still want my games to look like games.

Video Games will be photo realistic in about 20 years. Scientists have said that CPU's in about 20 years will be faster than the human brain. GPU will be as powerful as modern day supercomputers. Nonstop-Madness

Maybe, but photo realistic games will come about in about 5-10 years.

I think games are starting to be up their in terms CGI quality. When I was playing Crysis and the level were your floating around in the Alien Ship looked dazzling.

I don't know when or if ever, but developers can achieve something close to photorealism when they use the proper art style (see Crysis). I don't really care for those kind of graphics though. I think games like Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 are the at the point where, you improving the graphics anymore won't mean much. From that point on, all you can do is use the art more effectively or have higher texture resolutions. The focus should be on gameplay

When Final Fantasy games make 10 years to make.

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nVidiaGaMer

[QUOTE="nVidiaGaMer"]

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Silenthps

Dammit:x

You beat, me I only got 10.

go watch a blu ray movie

go watch a blu ray movie

kidonre

[QUOTE="kidonre"]

go watch a blu ray movie

colosion

EWWWWWW. wii look much betterNintendoBoy1996

WHAT LOL, LOL, LOL,:lol: PS3 RULES