Star Ocean devs show off new engine with tech video

I’m impressed. I’d really like to know what this is running on.

Is it just me or does the art-direction seem to be inspired by western sci-fi games like Mass Effect and Dead Space 2?

@1 Ps3/360 apparently.

From the devs – http://research.tri-ace.com/detail_1.html

Technical facts:
-Rendered in real-time on Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3
-Runs at 30Hz with 720p and is directly captured from the video output on the devkit
-Real-time lighting and shadowing used (no baked light maps)
-Key features are physically-based shading models, physically-based lighting and image-based global illumination

There is no way in hell that could ever be running on the hardware in real time.

If it is… holy crap!

Looks very nice indeed, as far as them being able to make a game out of it that actually uses those graphical assets in a fully functioning gameworld at the same fidelity without any compromises though, well, let’s not hold our breath eh?

it easily is running in real time on hardware, tech demos is one thing though, doesn’t mean tri-Ace can pull that off in a videogame.

@7

Agreed Tech demos are nothing to base anything on. SUre if you have vast resources and hardware you can make it look like that or Epic’s Samaritan but is that reality? Nope not all.