"Unlimited Detail Real-Time Rendering Technology Preview 2011"

[Marvin 1296]

I thought this was pretty amazing. The games we play will soon be '100000x' more realistic than what we play now.

These guys have developed a new rendering system that no longer uses polygons, but 'atoms' instead. The result is that there are no restraints to the artists who create the environments in a game.

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[Jiyeon 369]

Saw this earlier today and was fairly amazed. Going to be pretty exciting to see what game developers are going to do with this potential.

[Nitestalker 792]

Looks sick, i can't wait to see what sort of system requirements there will be to run a game in that style

[Spell 331]

Amazing.

As nite said, i wanna know what the requirements are going to be haha.

[Goldentongue 3616]

Wimp reposting ftw.

[Dead Donkey 49]

Well according to the video, same as now basically. The reason they dont do graphics that good with polygons is because it would make it impossible to play without a space shuttle computer or something. What this does is allows them to do that without raping system requirements.

[Dojima 7619]

Interesting, but I wish they'd explain how it works. There has to be a caveat.

[Taboo 2392]

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8386977075/its-a-scam

according to the creator of Minecraft, it's a scam.

[Goldentongue 3616]

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8386977075/its-a-scam

according to the creator of Minecraft, it's a scam.

Wow, I'm surprised he responded so quick. I wouldn't have expected a post by him for at least two years after the video came out.

[Someguy 85]

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8386977075/its-a-scam

according to the creator of Minecraft, it's a scam.

This.

He did the math and that island would be >512 petabytes, no way this is real.

[centran 4457]

Interesting, but I wish they'd explain how it works. There has to be a caveat.

Games use polygons. A couple points in space with lines drawn between them. This makes up the shapes in games.

Here is a simple example. Lets take a very very basic flat wall. You need 4 points to make the rectangle for the wall. This new technology doesn't do that because it is "unlimited detail". Instead it puts thousands of dots between what would normally be 4 points. Which is kind of silly in this simple example but is greatly beneficial for complex shapes. The problem is that it would normally take a super computer to render out a scene with all those dots. What this new technology does is takes into account the clients view, distance, and if objects are behind other objects it calculates the minimum amount of dots it needs. So even though the wall is made up of thousands of dots the technology can figure out that you only really need 4 dots if you are looking at it far away but if you get closer then it throw in more dots to increase the detail.

With polygons the entire area the character is in is calculated. This new technology can figure out what is truly needed.

The caveat? You can't do complex animations or physics... pretty big caveat for games.

The big problem is that these people aren't releasing any information! So some people think it might be a hoax. Some people think the basic approach they are taking won't work. Some people think the claims they make are false. WE DON'T KNOW cause these bastards won't release or talk to anyone.

[Dojima 7619]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was assuming. I don't get why culling doesn't work better with polys, though.

[SuperNorch 8]

Don't get too excited people it is voxel technology so it might take awhile till we get this tech in our games one day.

[Madbagel 12]

Don't get too excited people it is voxel technology so it might take awhile till we get this tech in our games one day.

Actually it's point cloud data, same principle but still completely different technology.

[ElectronicDrug 7496]

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8386977075/its-a-scam

according to the creator of Minecraft, it's a scam.

For some odd reason, I have a problem believing Notch's technology expertise on anything.

[Dojima 7619]

^100 thanks if I could.

[Mitch 2111]

For some odd reason, I have a problem believing Notch's technology expertise on anything.

Still made millions off of Java. :3

[Velo 2077]

If that's real.. ZE will never lag again

​(yeah right)

Very cool though.

[Fruggles 23]

The issue here is that while this looks baws, and would be stellar progress as far as graphics go, we don't really know how to manipulate graphics systems like that yet (as far as the game engine, etc.), so we'll need whole new game systems on top of those to be able to properly manipulate all the new graphics. This looks pretty promising as far as being able to interact with environments goes though

Could you imagine being able to literally manipulate any object on a map/server/world??? Legit.

EDIT: Derp daderp

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=90149.0

[mooosh 0]

entertaining video, but it's bullshit until they release a demo.