Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity [BETA RELEASED, GO TO THE NEW THREAD]

[Excidium]

Looks p. good. Nice character models too.

 

[Cursed Beaver]

Just look at The lightning and it's effect on texture surface!

This is fucking beautiful!

 

[The Bishop]

That looks... pretty amazing actually.

Also looks like they stepped up the quality of their video recording setup.

 

[imweasel]

The stuff that Sawyer is responsible for, i.e. gameplay and mechanics, wasn't shown.
http://youtu.be/AUleDEFkUtE?t=30s

The decline has be postponed. Too bad. :D

 

[OuterSpace]

Looks really good. Trying to wrap my head around how they did the water. Depth map maybe?

Only thing that looks kind of funny is the foliage "dynamism". The swaying bushes look like they're underwater. Some smaller more abrupt movements would make it look more natural.

 

[Duraframe300]

There is some weird compression artifacting going on with the character animations in the video render, unfortunately. They look smoother in-game.

 

[Rivmusique]

I liked all of it except the waterfall mist/splash. Very impressive.

 

[MicoSelva]

Looks good. Actually, it looks better than many 3D games that I had the misfortune to play and/or see. It probably runs much better too.

 

[Kos_Koa]

The bushes move too fast.


But in seriousness, that was beautiful. I can't figure out how they did the dynamic lighting on the statues. That looked like 3d geometry.

 

[Bradylama]

My only complaint is that they couldn't upload it in 1080p

 

[HanoverF]

I hope the Torment team is taking notes.

 

[Cursed Beaver]

It's a masterpiece. If all the games is like that, then it will have nothing to envy to the classics such as Baldur's Gate 2 and Icewind Dale 1&2 in terms of artstyle and environments. It can even surpass them.

As for recent games, there is none that I know with comparable tastefulness.

 

[J_C]

This is...beautiful.

 

[Sprout]

I hope the Torment team is taking notes.

This is probably pretty reasonable representation of the standard torment will be aiming for, and will most likely end up looking like too.
They're sharing tech now and are otherwise in contact. The differences between the two games are probably
going to end up being rather superficial, like different art direction and you know, not that many trees in bloom.
The stuff what we were shown during the campaign was fairly hastily thrown together, so yeah, I think it's pretty fair to expect something like this.

 

[Visbhume]

I know shit about computer graphics. If the background is pre-rendered, how is that they can add lighting effects?

 

[tuluse]

I know shit about computer graphics. If the background is pre-rendered, how is that they can add lighting effects?

magic

one trick they're pulling is that there is no dynamic shadows

 

[BigWeather]

They probably have a z-buffer to indicate the depth of each pixel, and based on that and the color of the light source (like that wisp thing) can mess with individual pixel colors.

A game I worked on long ago, Wild Wild West, had pre-rendered backgrounds but still did dynamic shadows that would actually go along the ground then bend up walls and such by doing pretty much that.

 

[imweasel]

I know shit about computer graphics. If the background is pre-rendered, how is that they can add lighting effects?

They are using normal mapping for the dynamic lighting.

Think of it as an untextured 3D layer that sits on top of the 2D layer.

 

[Brayko]

Wow I....wow.

 

[Turisas]

Gorgeous.

 

[Dermi]

Love it

 

[Cyberarmy]

While graphics are the last thing I look in a game this video got me excited. Very few games accomplished that over this decade despite most games and their "technical success/revolutionary graphics"

Proper good job!

 

[Zeriel]

But guys, 2D is too expensive! 3D is superior in every way!



Looks great obviously, makes me wonder (cry in terrible, unspeakable sorrow?) how amazing an AAA-funded game could look in 2D like this.

 

[logrus]

That movie is just pure fucking majestic INCLINE!
Love the art direction, everything in this scene has its place and is so tasteful. Enironment feels so much lively, small animated parts of the scene like stream and waterfall, trees, fireplace, etc. are really building atmosphere. Some effects are really impressive as for the 2.5D environment, that fiery will-o-wisp dancing before the statues, water rising in the stream... Damn, I just want to dive in this world...
So far my favourite graphics in a 2D IE-like game was ID2, but P:E is a candidate for taking this position
Finally,

My only complaint is that they couldn't upload it in 1080p

 

[imweasel]

But guys, 2D is too expensive! 3D is superior in every way!

Real time 3D is actually superior to prerendered 3D. This method is however much cheaper and requires less hardware power.

If you don't want/need to rotate the camera, then prerendered 3D is probably the better choice. With normal mapping for dynamic lighting and some other 3D effects you can hardly even tell the difference.