Tue, Nov 27, 2012 | 23:20 GMT

Luminous engine demo shows off on-the-fly tweaking

Square Enix has released a new demo for its Luminous engine, showing off the tech’s boast-worthy rendering capacities, which allow developers to change parameters and see results in real time.

In the video below you’ll see the action pause as someone fiddles with a menu; with just a few clicks, things like lighting effects, hair length and number of objects on screen are changed, and then immediately visualised in the cinematic. This is pretty amazing.

The original demo itself is still well worth a look, too. Square Enix has at least one game on the go in Luminous but as the engine isn’t complete the new title hasn’t gone into full production and has not been announced.

Thanks, Siliconera.

8 comments

monkeygourmet
27/11/12, 11:32 pm

Purdy!

Didn’t Square use unreal or FF13?

So will the new FF use this engine or Unreal 4?

Moonwalker1982
27/11/12, 11:41 pm

If that’s how next gen can eventually look…fucking hell, bring it!!!!

Phoenixblight
28/11/12, 1:13 am

Square signed a deal with Epic to use Unreal. Luminous will be used for their internal stuff like FF but for their owned developers like EDIos will be using Unreal.

Unreal 4 has this same feature as well.

Dragon246
28/11/12, 1:52 am

@3
Yeah exactly.Unreal deal was signed, but it was not meant for FF games. FF13 series use crystal tools engine which can be called the predecessor of luminous engine.

manamana
28/11/12, 6:38 am

This is still impressive stuff, man just look at those gorgeous graphics! Almost forgot about that after it got so quiet after E3. Am I the only one who is still flashed by this and cannot wait for next-gen consoles? We defenitely need more next-gen game teasers and stuff, that’s for shure!

roadkill
28/11/12, 8:07 am

Sweet!

dex3108
28/11/12, 9:03 am

Graphic is not that important i am still waiting to see next-gen gameplay revolution