What is the game engine name ?

[Mobius]

Haha, their tools framework is called 'Mobius'.
Is it good at doing screenies and mash-up's like our Mobius?

YAY! my name may end up in the credits under the guise of FD Tools Framework.

 

[ianw]

I thought SC was being made on the Cry Engine 4 not 3

I had to look it up but it says 3 here;

http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/press-roundup-from-forbes-to-crytek/

 

[Adam Lusardi]

YAY! my name may end up in the credits under the guise of FD Tools Framework.

Cunning plan

 

[Cthulhus]

I would like to see a rander of the current game engine of the game ...

 

[Slawkenbergius]

The picture above is a screen shot from the current build of Elite: Dangerous, with a few small elements added as a paint-over layer. This image has been produced as a visual bench mark for the continued development of the Sidewinder, which still requires lighting and particle effects to be created for it. The model itself is also not the final version of the Sidewinder that will ultimately end up in the game. This will also go through additional stages of refinement before release, to make it look even better.

 

[Cthulhus]

not so bad...

 

[Sterlino]

Cobra!

hmmm, so sweet !

 

[SAB380]

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..

True ....though I would not say it has 'planetary landings'.

It has a pre-rendered cut scene that is essentially a load screen to transport you from space to landed at a space port on the surface of the planet/asteroid.

 

[Im_Lost]

But Cry engine was not really developed for games on the scale of Elite. It has limited map sizes and thing like seamless planet landings may not be possible. You also wouldn't be able to have to-scale planets and solor systems because they simply wouldn't fit.

Star Citizen will most likely have much smaller playable areas with loading screens to go between them. While elite's could be entire seamless solar systems or bigger, plus planets. But at the cost of some smaller details.

It's like comparing the original elite games to wing commander. Both are space sims but have different goals.

 

[Karl]

Keep in mind the rendering engine is not the same as the engine. Pick Cryengine at the start and it may not be up to par once the rest of the engine required for the game to do it's thing. Like database management, net traffic management suitable for the intended gameplay, and so on. Then there is also "local coordinate systems and scales"; very important to a game like this, but hardly relevant for anything else.