Square Enix, video game publisher behind titles like Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, has been demonstrating their new “realtime rendering engine” that they claim will to what they call “quality live action” graphics. The photos and video they’ve shown are truly impressive.
As examined in the screenshots below, Square Enix is trying to get as close to absolute true fidelity as possible with its Direct-X 11 supported platform, known as Luminous.
At the press conference the company displayed source material pictures and their corresponding game maps. The engine allowed engineers to build navigable spaces rendered in real-time, as suggested in the video further down below.
While the environments look amazing, there’s little to no information on what they’ve done for rendering people. Hopefully the Uncanny Valley problems won’t derail their entire project. Look below for a sadly uninspiring piece of video. Uninspiring until you realize it’s actually rendering in-game in real-time.
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I don’t get it. Nothing moved other than the camera. They could have baked the lighting to textures and rendered this in realtime on a i740.