Geomerics has completed work on its radiosity lighting engine Enlighten, ahead of next week's Game Developers Conference.
The toolset, which claims to give "developers the quality of pre-computed lighting without the pre-compute" is designed to replicate realistic lighting effects by modelling light as it bounces from surfaces.
The toolset, available in a modular toolkit in order to enable integration into existing development frameworks, is also compatible with 3D Studio Max and Maya.
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
The long-awaited sequel to the 2013 narrative adventure is currently expected out sometime in 2024.
Oh hell yeah! I feel like this was one hell of an underrated game, and I'm glad to see that a part 2 is coming.
This was my favorite Telltale game. I’m definitely going to play this. Hopefully it has less jank than the Telltale games had. I didn’t think it would happen but I’m happy it’s coming
Great, loved the first game and happy a sequel is coming but after such a lengthy development, are Telltale gonna be releasing it episodic with non specific time delays between episodes? If it is episodic, they need to have a full set of dates laid out for every episode so we know what we are getting & when like Resident Evil Revelations 2 did, buying episode 1 and not knowing when the rest will come is just unacceptable in 2024.
I always loved Telltale games. They were like those old choose your own adventures books.
One of the problems with procedural generation of art is that you have to deal with lighting and shadows and in the past it has been computationally expensive to do good lighting in real time. If this geomerics works as promised then both the PS3 and 360 should see a substantial improvement. And I understand this works with Epic's engine so there is a potential for a substantial improvement in lighting.
Still, it will be the next generation before enough power is available to really do next-generation games. This generation you are seeing pieces but a lot of what you see are work arounds or incomplete implementations because Sony and MS decided to provide less than optimal CPUs (but decent graphic cards). Still, thanks to things like speed tree, euphoria and geomerics, you may see something is almost entirely procedurally generated, with real time lighting and realistic npc behavior. If it can be done all at the same time it will provide a huge reduction in production costs while potentially increasing production values.
But time will tell - maybe the current gen of consoles don't have quite enough power to make this all work at once. Any developers out there that know the answer?
Honestly, the closest we can get to see real improvements is with the PS3 hardware. The Cell technology was developed to deal with all that, arranging several different real-time simulations at the same time, any hardware can make polygons, some tech simulations I have seen on the PS3 prove that there is a lot of room to implement procedural generated content on all game aspects.
@ip student:You are right, PS4 is going to be a huge leap in technology.