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bluvasa

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« on: April 20, 2006, 08:14:00 PM »
Check this one out:

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The animation engine used in the new Indiana Jones game is capable of some pretty cool stuff.  Watch the videos and you'll get a glimpse of what the article describes.

It's not just ragdoll physics anymore.  The days of stuttering character movements may finally be at an end. smile.gif
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unforgvn8400

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« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2006, 09:53:00 PM »
yeah, that is pretty cool. football games can finally be revamped
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« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2006, 10:58:00 PM »
GO LUCAS ARTS!!!
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« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2006, 03:30:00 AM »
Minus the Indiana Jones relation, IGN had an article on this 6-8 months ago. Same videos too...

There was talk that EA would use it in Madden, then a few days later EA said they had never even heard of this.

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bluvasa

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« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2006, 09:15:00 PM »
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It's one thing to look next-gen, and it's quite another to play next-gen.


I can't wait for this one love.gif
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« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2006, 09:34:00 PM »
IMO this game doesn't LOOK too good, but it's ot yet finished, so that's fine.
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Quite a few jaggies... everything looks pretty low-res... street look flat... a lot of things lack depth/bitmapped... but again they still have a lot of time, right?  And it's not ALL about looks.
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« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2006, 09:55:00 PM »
QUOTE(CattyKid @ May 30 2006, 11:41 PM) View Post

IMO this game doesn't LOOK too good, but it's ot yet finished, so that's fine.
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Quite a few jaggies... everything looks pretty low-res... street look flat... a lot of things lack depth/bitmapped... but again they still have a lot of time, right?  And it's not ALL about looks.


its also from ign ps3, maybe thats the best it can do? ok, I know, not funny  rolleyes.gif Its been a while since i made a crack on the grillmaster 3 ok? thats the rsx synthesizer chugging along and showing us what 60 trillion gigaflopaloozas are capable of

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« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2006, 10:36:00 PM »
anything is better then what we have now farcry trap deaths are a joke
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« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2006, 06:49:00 AM »
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Indiana Jones – This was the year of procedurally generated content. Every other developer was telling me how instead of having artists and animators create a game for me they figured out a way to make a computer do it. They seem to think this is better but Indiana Jones is a great example of why it’s not. Instead of animating Indy they essentially taught him how to behave and react to his surroundings. They said this was better because it means you’ll never see the same canned animation over and over. What it means is that I see different stupid looking animations all the time though. I’m not sure that’s an improvement. I’ll take God of Wars beautifully animated special moves over Indy looking like some kind of retarded marionette any day.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2006/05/15
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