What is the game engine name ?
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Thanks for details !
Engine
lets hope its a good as the cry engine 3 and unreal/ frost bite ones and DX11+ its the way forward may have been able to save a lot of ££££££ if they had licensed one of them engines just a through x
lets hope its a good as the cry engine 3 and unreal/ frost bite ones and DX11+ its the way forward may have been able to save a lot of ££££££ if they had licensed one of them engines just a through x
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Well lets see..................if you bought a licence *this sounds so MS to me* would you be able to rewrite some parts of the engine yourself or have to hire ex-employees on subcontract "to just rob you blind"
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'Cry havoc, and let slip the Wodderwicks of war!'
I'm disappointed the game engine isn't called Wodderwick.
Then we could have all asked to welease wodderwick
That scene has compwetewy wuined the word "wisible" for me. I can't wead it without heawing it in Michael Pawin's voice.
Why would you say that?
The best example is Star Citizen. Similar game, but it needs 10 times the funding and a much larger team to achieve a world 1000 times smaller.
That engine is amazing for hand coding everything.
But Elite: Dangerous uses procedural generation and is attempting to do something very different.....luckily they have someone on staff that has done this before
Cryengine 3 costs something like $1.2m to license. COBRA is the in-house engine, so is free. Also, the devs are all familiar with working with their COBRA tools, so there's no learning curve. RSI have hired specialists to train people in using Cryengine.
It would be a big expense, and not really worthwhile, to use anything other than the in-house engine. When DB mentioned the new investors, he specifically mentioned 'tech and tools', so I suspect Frontier will be doing some work on updating COBRA to make sure the graphics part is up-to-date, and things of that nature.
It would be a big expense, and not really worthwhile, to use anything other than the in-house engine. When DB mentioned the new investors, he specifically mentioned 'tech and tools', so I suspect Frontier will be doing some work on updating COBRA to make sure the graphics part is up-to-date, and things of that nature.
Besides all that: why should they all be based on the same engine? THere is no one best engine. Chris Roberts from SC clearly states that himeself, he clarifies that they chose for CryEngine 3 cause it suits his wishes best. But they had a limited universe in mind from the get go. FD have a hole other idea/vision on how their game is going to work and look. So probably a different engine will suit best for that. By all means let it be their own so they can spend money in it for the long term rather than throwing money at a semi-competitor...
don´t forget that SC has
- motion capturing and movie quality cutscenes
- avatar gameplay on release
- fully voiced story campaigns
- planetary landings with walkable stations and POIs
...
I guess SC is not more expensive because of just a different engine..
I really hope they use Directx 11 graphics With all the new tessalation and light/shadow effects. Well, I guess even Directx 10 would make the game look awesome. In space you dont need as much details as in a land based games. Its more open and free. But stations, ships and planets should be top notch and light/shadow effects. If real solar system simulation is going to be used. It will indeed make for some excellent scenery. As the sun rises above a planet and its moons. I really wonder how Braben is going to make this procedural with Direct x 11 graphics. It must look awesome. As the galaxy is procedural generated and to
be able to go into the game and see the different solar systems function in real time. As it was in Frontier. Man are we in for a snack. The mother of all spacesims
With all the new tessalation and light/shadow effects. Well, I guess even Directx 10 would make the game look awesome. In space you dont need as much details as in a land based games. Its more open and free. But stations, ships and planets should be top notch and light/shadow effects. If real solar system simulation is going to be used. It will indeed make for some excellent scenery. As the sun rises above a planet and its moons. I really wonder how Braben is going to make this procedural with Direct x 11 graphics. It must look awesome. As the galaxy is procedural generated and to be able to go into the game and see the different solar systems function in real time. As it was in Frontier. Man are we in for a snack. The mother of all spacesims
I really hope so .. This blew my mind and that's a PS3. Imagine a high end PC with the right engine
What a horror ! No, the graphics (they are very beautiful), but the story. It's hideous and scary, these robots. They would do better build spaceships