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[Hurricane43]

Found this on my daily Watch_Dogs tweetering search...


Originally when I found the article it was mentioned it was PC footage, however the video is actually from a PS4 devkit. PC is incoming.


IN MY VEINS NOW.... Gat Damn...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1...-light-effects-technique-video-for_videogames


Edit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsCt8Yf2emo


0:27-0:34 : Look at the reflections of the sun on the rooftops.
0:40-0:46 : Mirroring of the City on the facades.
1:03-1:08 : All NPC's are individuals.
1:11-1:23 : Wet Subsoil reflects sunlight.
1:12-1:23 : Trees move by the wind.
1:14-1:23 : Clouds move slowly.
1:28-1:32 : NPC's cloth according to the Weather.
1:40-1:49 : Rain affects the wet ground.
1:52-1:59 : ctOS Commercial : "Chicago's central operating system"
2:01-2:13 : Gentle reflections on ground and water.
2:14-2:21 : Light sources get reflected on wet terrain.
2:24-2:38 : The omnipresent ctOS : Just some more ctOS advertisements.
2:47-3:20 : Example for the dynamic weather.
2:50-3:20 : Trees will shake harder if the wind gets faster.
2:56-3:20 : Even clouds move faster.
3:23-3:36 : Water tessellation.
3:42-3:48 : Wireframe-View.
3:56-4:08 : Detailed Wind-Simulation.



Update: PC version tomorrow 4/3/2014. Might be a side by side of PS4/PC

Edit 2: Videos are down but Ubi Ninjas. Wait for it, itamazing. I saved it but in Jury Duty today

 

[Card Boy]

 

[Hyb]

Upgrade confirmed.

 

[Salsa]

that's some good looking Wasser

 

[maquiladora]

paging dennis

 

[mckmas8808]

What language is this site?

 

[TheRealTalker]

PC redemption?


Bloom/LensFlare is still there

 

[demolitio]

What language is this site?

German.

Anyway, das wasser ist gut.

I just hope it's actually optimized unlike a lot of Ubisoft games on PC.

 

[GaussTek]

Is that intentional slow motion, or why the framerate is so bad? lol

 

[Hurricane43]

What language is this site?

German detected by the google translate

 

[mckmas8808]

So why can't they do a PS4 video JUST like this?

 

[luffeN]

Damn, the stronger the wind, the faster the clouds move.

 

[SniperHunter]

the lighting still looks pretty poor compared to the 2012 reveal.

 

[Oersted]

Hey, that looks gut

German detected by the google translate

.de. Cough

 

[puffyshirt]

Yes, that is indeed what I would like the game to look like.

 

[RoboPlato]

Are these nVidia exclusive?

 

[nelsonroyale]

Looks like I would expect. Not that different from the other versions to be honest, but it is a good looking game.

 

[Kareha]

So why can't they do a PS4 video JUST like this?

PS4 would probably melt trying to do this.

 

[SpookyFries]

Not really seeing why the PS4 couldn't handle this stuff. Seems like they just wanted to be lazy

 

[Eggbok]

Shadows exclusive to PC confirmed.

 

[ricardokenshin]

so the only version worth getting will be PC? even though some NPC's looked bland the ones talking on cellphone during the rain sequence looked pretty good.

I hope they pull this stuff with the PS4 though.

 

[mckmas8808]

Dat beat is stuck in my head now.

BOOM...DE...BE..BOOM.BOOM..BOOM....DE...BE! DON! DON! DON!

 

[plainr_]

The title is very different from the video description.

 

[UnrealEck]

Looks fine just fine. Fine. Fine.

Nothing spectacular though. The water looks exactly like CryEngine's default water with tesselation.

 

[Arya Stark]

Alright, fuck the PS4 version. Grabbing this on PC.

 

[Daingurse]

Can't view the vid now, but I like the sound of those effects. Palpatine_goooooood.gif

 

[R3TRO]

Thought it looked great when it was "PC" footage but now that it's actually PS4 footage I'm even more impressed with the video.

 

[Tiberius]

on the "ctos plazza" there's no shadows on the npc

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Well the video quality is terrible but if you told me that was the console version I wouldn't second guess it.

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

Not really seeing why the PS4 couldn't handle this stuff. Seems like they just wanted to be lazy

That'll be why.

The PC team would've been all like 'oh hey bros tessellation and wind dynamics simulation' and the PS4 team will have been all like 'nah bro i'mma get a sammige'.

 

[Hurricane43]

What's that about 50 plus npc's on screen we have here....

 

[Bob White]

Reminded me of the Just Cause 2 benchmark test.

 

[SniperHunter]

That'll be why.

The PC team would've been all like 'oh hey bros tessellation and wind dynamics simulation' and the PS4 team will have been all like 'nah bro i'mma get a sammige'.

PS4 has the wind effects

 

[Dictator93]

Verweile doch, du bist so schön!

 

[Durante]

Is that intentional slow motion, or why the framerate is so bad? lol

When it says "Zeitlupe" it's intentionally slowed down.

 

[family_guy]

Not really seeing why the PS4 couldn't handle this stuff. Seems like they just wanted to be lazy

Possibly. I would like to see what Sony could do with an open world exclusive PS4 game. Infamous wasn't quite there. Maybe if they brought back the Getaway.

 

[VanWinkle]

PS4 would probably melt trying to do this.

Doing what specifically?

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

PS4 has the wind effects

Effects but does it have full simulation?

 

[Stike]

Huh... I wonder how many of those effects will be available on console too.

To clarify, it says "exclusive video" not "exclusive PC tech", so it *is* possible to ask that question (and yes, I speak German, danke)

 

[SpookyFries]

That'll be why.

The PC team would've been all like 'oh hey bros tessellation and wind dynamics simulation' and the PS4 team will have been all like 'nah bro i'mma get a sammige'.

I'm assuming that the PC team is using DirectX libraries and the PS4 team is like "Fuck programming our own, we'll just stick with what we have"

 

[gruenel]

PS4 has the wind effects

Yeah, somehow everyone seems to misunderstand the title. It says the video is exclusive, not the techniques.

 

[VanWinkle]

Huh... I wonder how many of those effects will be available on console too.

To clarify, it says "exclusive video" not "exclusive PC tech", so it *is* possible to ask that question (and yes, I speak German, danke)

Oh, interesting.

 

[Ryuuga]

I like everything this game is doing, but I don't see anything particularly impressive here.

 

[cackhyena]

PS4 would probably melt trying to do this.

Do what? The wind? Ground Zeroes has trees moving just as realistically from wind.

 

[ethomaz]

If I'm not wrong these effects are available on PS4 too...

 

[Always-honest]

Haha, now it suddenly looks amazing, right?

Probably the water tesselation won't be on PS4. Not that anyone would notice.

Oh Gaf...

 

[artist]

Huh... I wonder how many of those effects will be available on console too.

To clarify, it says "exclusive video" not "exclusive PC tech", so it *is* possible to ask that question (and yes, I speak German, danke)

Reasoning, please make it stop. PLEASE!

 

[SniperHunter]

Effects but does it have full simulation?

yes it does. the only thing not in the PS4 version is water tessellation. it has the reflective windows and wind simulation

the ssr also looked poor in this version, just like the PS4 video

 

[Storm Chamber]

Lemme go ahead and get some pop secret for this thread

 

[Xav]

It's a shame that people's excitement for Watch Dogs is purely based on graphical quality. Am I the only one still intrigued by the game's premise?