Far Cry Gets ADVANCED!!! -PS3.0 And HDR Technology-

[Kschreck]

We all seen the pictures of Far Cry with PS3.0 but now they are adding Hight Dynamic Range lighting (HDR) technologies into Far Cry which looks super impressive. What do you guys think about these new features? Sure sucks that Half-Life 2 isn't getting all these cool features. Here are some pictures for you of Far Cry with PS3.0 and HDR technologies.


http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/farcry30/farcry_sm30_hdr_2_bg.jpg

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/farcry30/farcry_sm30_hdr_1_bg.jpg

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/farcry30/cooler_sm30_hdr_bg.jpg

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/farcry30/farcry_sm30_hdr_3_bg.jpg


Games are getting pretty neat these days. Far Cry looks like it might beat Doom 3, Half-Life 2, and Stalker in graphics. Only time will tell.

 

[Top Secret]

I love HDR. Makes things look brighter than could normally be made on a computer screen.

 

[nw909]

I don't know what to think about those shots.

It's bright.

 

[Top Secret]

That's the whole point of HDR. It adds more realism. You go outside in real life, and try to stare at the sun, you barely can. Because it's so bright, HDR simulates this.

 

[Shuzer]

That's the whole point of HDR. It adds more realism. You go outside in real life, and try to stare at the sun, you barely can. Because it's so bright, HDR simulates this.

I just went blind as per your advice to stare at the sun. You'll be getting contacted by my lawyer very shortly. I'll see you in COURT!

 

[nw909]

Huh, sun?

I don't follow...

 

[Mr-Fusion]

I know, what is this sun you speak of ?

 

[Sparta]

if those are the ones i think i've seen before with Ps3.0 and HDR i know what you're talking about. They look good but they've put the console command up way too high and everything looks way too bright.

Anyway, great engine Crytek (or whatever the heck the engine is called) although PS3.0 isn't really advanced, its just faster then PS2.0
Source also has HDR and so does STALKER. Also i think STALKER uses PS3.0 as well.
So. no its not really beating out anyone, its just updating.
Again, great engine

 

[The Terminator]

that HDR is way too bright.

 

[Janet Reno]

Seriously though, the steps on the second linked picture are way too bright. They're just a glowing mass of whiteness.

 

[Asus]

Over done for sure. lol
The screen shots are anyway.

They should tone it down a bit and it will look great. Too bad they didn't decide to implement HDR into all high-end DX9 cards. :\

PS3.0 is 'faster' or more efficent. But also just how fast a card can run Pixel Shaders comes into play as well.

 

[Estevan]

WOOOOOOOOw those are to bright! Those trigens are freaking BRIGHT!

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Sure sucks that Half-Life 2 isn't getting all these cool features. Here are some pictures for you of Far Cry with PS3.0 and HDR technologies.

HL2 has/will have HDR.

PS3.0 doesn't do anything that PS2.0 doesn't already do (it just does it with less instructions)

 

[Zips]

Certainly a great start for implementing HDR into this game.

 

[Neo_Kuja]

I'd hate to be the guy in the last screenshot .......

 

[Mr.Reak]

Easy to see that programmers have no eye for design and overdo everything to the point of “I AM GOING BLIND BECAUSE THAT STONE STEP REFLECTED ME RIGHT INTO THE EYE. I FEEL SO IMMERSED RIGHT NOW… PAIN IS REALISTIC”.

But I bet they will turn this effect down for the patch, so yeah, cool and dandy.

 

[AmishSlayer]

Cool stuff. I bet they just exaggerated the effect so it is obvious to everyone that doesn't know what HDR is.

 

[ShadowFox]

HL2 has/will have HDR.

PS3.0 doesn't do anything that PS2.0 doesn't already do (it just does it with less instructions)

Well, it has displacement mapping(better bumps).. but that's about it.

 

[Alig]

I think like most said it does need toning down a bit lol.

The last shot especially, i mean in that exact bit of the game where hes stood he is inside with no sun over-looking him and the brightness from a bloody lamp on the ceiling is amazingly not good.

 

[Sparta]

Well, it has displacement mapping(better bumps).. but that's about it.

PS2.0 also has displacement mapping. You can get effects shown in those screenshots (those fancy bump-maps) using the editor and navigating until you find the offset .dds maps. Nothing special

 

[Cybernoid]

We all seen the pictures of Far Cry with PS3.0 but now they are adding Hight Dynamic Range lighting (HDR) technologies into Far Cry which looks super impressive. What do you guys think about these new features? Sure sucks that Half-Life 2 isn't getting all these cool features. Here are some pictures for you of Far Cry with PS3.0 and HDR technologies.


http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/farcry30/farcry_sm30_hdr_2_bg.jpg

Look, it's the invasion of the plastic men.

 

[lans]

OMG, the HDR in the last pic looks plain fugly...so much for being "advanced".

 

[PvtRyan]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/farcry30/farcry_sm30_hdr_3_bg.jpg

Holy shit, do they even know the meaning of the word "overused"??

This is why Far Cry will never beat HL2 and STALKER graphically, Crytek doesn't have artists, it has programmers, no sense for style.

 

[x84D80Yx]

whoa this is like...a month old.
if you guys dont know why the hdr looks way too bright in the picture then you dont know the full story. the settings were enhanced for testing and they wont look like that in patch 1.3

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Only the third screenshot looks real. The rest are way too excessive

 

[Axyon]

Old pictures, but I'm still annoyed that Crytek didn't even bother trying to implement the HDR effects for ATi cards.

 

[x84D80Yx]

yeah, i beleive they orginated from Guru3d.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?threadid=91628&perpage=10&pagenumber=13

look at the date of the post..
06-11-2004

these pics are more than a month old lol

 

[Kazuki_Fuse]

The HDR looks sweet. Too bad HDR doesn't save a game from being crap lol.

 

[Cerpin]

Hey, HDR is great, but you guys overhype it. Even "The Suffering" uses HDR on practically every light source..(xbox and pc-version ofcourse).

 

[jonbob]

just looks overly bright and plasticky (sp) to me? Am I missing something?

 

[63]

I don't care about lights

 

[Direwolf]

just looks overly bright and plasticky (sp) to me? Am I missing something?

It's much more impressive in motion, like the HL2 HDF video is.

 

[EVIL]

We all seen the pictures of Far Cry with PS3.0 but now they are adding Hight Dynamic Range lighting (HDR) technologies into Far Cry which looks super impressive. What do you guys think about these new features? Sure sucks that Half-Life 2 isn't getting all these cool features. Here are some pictures for you of Far Cry with PS3.0 and HDR technologies.


http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/farcry30/farcry_sm30_hdr_2_bg.jpg

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/farcry30/farcry_sm30_hdr_1_bg.jpg

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/farcry30/cooler_sm30_hdr_bg.jpg

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/farcry30/farcry_sm30_hdr_3_bg.jpg


Games are getting pretty neat these days. Far Cry looks like it might beat Doom 3, Half-Life 2, and Stalker in graphics. Only time will tell.

sure HL2 will get those features, proppably not on release date but added a week after or so.. there will be HDR on release tho, and the displacement mapping you see but it will only be enabled in the newest hardware

PS3.0 will be added after but it wont make it look better, PS3.0 isnt making better quality graphics then 2.0

 

[Intel17]

Doom3 still looks better than FarCry

 

[Direwolf]

Is that a surprise or something?