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[EdibleFetus]

Got a nice image of some chicks face.
They claim "Image rendered using NV30."

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...,415713,00.asp


ATI Debuts FireGL X1 with PICS.
Got a pic of the realtime LOTR demo

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...,415714,00.asp

[EdibleFetus]

looks like i really missed this one..

2 days old article and it's been posted already
sorry.

[T2k]

Originally posted by EdibleFetus

ATI Debuts FireGL X1 with PICS.
Got a pic of the realtime LOTR demo

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...,415714,00.asp

It's NOT FIREGL. Read first...

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthre...eadid=33628396

[Myrmecophagavir]

I thought it was the FireGL. The quad 8500 thing had nothing to do with the LOTR scene.

[Sachankara]

Hmm... I have no doubts that the NV30 can't do that, but I don't think it really has been rendered with the NV30 since I've seen that image a long time ago, including a video and they were both made with Maya...

http://www.raph.com/3dartists/artgal...baptistao1.jpg

This is the official homepage of Alceu Baptistão: http://www.vetorzero.com/kaya/

He doesn't mention anything about the NV30 on that page, so either they stole the image, or they bought it...

[GrrrPoop]

Any graphics card could "render" that image.

However, no commericial graphics card currently available could dynamically generate a scene involving a character that complex. Nor will nV30, nV35 or R400 be able to accomplish that.

It is a static image. It is very misleading of Extremetech to run an article on Nv30 and attach a picture like that to it.

Like Sachankara said, it will have been generated within Maya, and even if it was "rendered using NV30" it means nothing.

[T2k]

Originally posted by Sachankara
Hmm... I have no doubts that the NV30 can't do that, but I don't think it really has been rendered with the NV30 since I've seen that image a long time ago, including a video and they were both made with Maya...

http://www.raph.com/3dartists/artgal...baptistao1.jpg

This is the official homepage of Alceu Baptistão: http://www.vetorzero.com/kaya/

He doesn't mention anything about the NV30 on that page, so either they stole the image, or they bought it...

My nmistake...

So, LOTR was rendered by new Fire GL X1 on Linux.

And the 4GPU card is NOPT FGL X1 but 8500x4 card by CAE corporation.

[littlegohanz]

that rendered pic is really impressive

close to photorealism

I wonder whne will be see a game of that quality
probably 4 or 5 years?

[Ostsol]

Originally posted by littlegohanz
that rendered pic is really impressive

close to photorealism

I wonder whne will be see a game of that quality
probably 4 or 5 years?

I'd say two years at most. Look at what could be rendered in realtime two years ago then compare it to the new ATI demos. The progression has been really quite fast.

[littlegohanz]

I think 2 years is too fast

You do realize that the ff movie took 120 million to produce right? To have games of that quality is mind boggling

[barnaby]

Originally posted by Sachankara
Hmm... I have no doubts that the NV30 can't do that, but I don't think it really has been rendered with the NV30 since I've seen that image a long time ago, including a video and they were both made with Maya...

http://www.raph.com/3dartists/artgal...baptistao1.jpg

This is the official homepage of Alceu Baptistão: http://www.vetorzero.com/kaya/

He doesn't mention anything about the NV30 on that page, so either they stole the image, or they bought it...

it's the same thing Ati did with the real light, and animemusic demos.. those are old stuff.. they just showed that what took 10 minutes a frame on a redermachine when they were created, gets done in real time on the 9700...

same thing with kaya and the nv30... now, what ati and nVidia's definition of real time means is another thing... for all we know .01 fps is all they're getting.. it would be considered real time, just not the 24 fps yer thinking of..

[Ostsol]

Originally posted by littlegohanz
I think 2 years is too fast

You do realize that the ff movie took 120 million to produce right? To have games of that quality is mind boggling

Remember that the original version of the Radeon 9700's Real Light demo was prerendered and took 10 minutes to render a single frame -- and this was last year. What would you have though it someone showed you that demo two years ago and said that it was done in realtime at >30 fps? I think two years before cinema quality graphics are seen is quite good estimate. Real-time graphics will probably mostly still use textures, while plenty of cinema quality graphics don't, but the quality will be almost indistinguishable.

EDIT: One thing to keep in mind is that CG movies are rendered at extremely high resolutions and receive FSAA. That's part of why it takes so long to render individual frames.

[Sasquach]

Originally posted by barnaby


it's the same thing Ati did with the real light, and animemusic demos.. those are old stuff.. they just showed that what took 10 minutes a frame on a redermachine when they were created, gets done in real time on the 9700...

same thing with kaya and the nv30... now, what ati and nVidia's definition of real time means is another thing... for all we know .01 fps is all they're getting.. it would be considered real time, just not the 24 fps yer thinking of..

The ATI demos are in movie format on ATI's website, and from what ive seen, they are like at the very least 30x faster than 1fps (consistant too, so it can be anywhere from 30+fps) (yes u CAN see the real light demo move nice and smooth with what appeared to be some minor stuttering, but that can be accounted for what background apps have been eating up memory or something. I know thats how any stuttering occurs on my computer.)

[travbrad1001]

Originally posted by littlegohanz
I think 2 years is too fast

You do realize that the ff movie took 120 million to produce right? To have games of that quality is mind boggling

I think 2 years is too fast also. Not really for technology reasons but because game developers cant afford to dish out $100+ million for a game. If they made a $25 profit per game sold (just an estimate) they would have to sell 4 million copies of the game just to break even.