[S.T.A.L.K.E.R.] First DX9 Outdoor Images

[Chode]

UPDATED: New Images HERE

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Source (in Russian)

Ingromania (a Russian Magazine) has updated their counting down fan site for STALKER with the very first screenshots of STALKER's DirectX9 Render in an outdoor environment (to date we had only seen the inside environments).

People think that this is parallax bump mapping (on the bricks), one of the coolest features of the Unreal 3 engine.

I don't think I like this. I don't know if it's just the angle or if you need to see it in motion, but it doesn't look right.

It is seeming to be that a DirectX9 card is not going to be the minimum requirement for the Dx9 renderer. Many users of Dx9 cards are probably going to need to run the Dx8 renderer just for performance.

Edited May 5, 2005 by Chode

[_I am Reptar]

Looks like a regular game..

nothing special to me, needs some AA

[S.MULLA]

graphcis do look very nice- but for some reason dont look as good as half life2..

[Chode]

graphcis do look very nice- but for some reason dont look as good as half life2..

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Granted they're a very low res, and desperately need some AA as a result...

But you're trying to say a game engine without parallax bump mapping, using simple shaders (most of the dx9 shaders can be converted to dx8 with minimal loss of image quality), and a non-dynamic shadow system looks better than these quick teaser pics?

These pics have more in common with Far Cry and Unreal 3 than HL2.

[Menge]

i REALLY like the lighting in stalker :)

and the skies. gives a whole different depth to it :D

[qdave]

yeah, pics are too blocky. cant wait to see some high res screenies.

[G4M3R]

The bricks on the second shot look good.

Alot of jaggies thought, they need to crank up the AA.

[+Random Stranger Subscriber¹]

wow thay look pretty cool. yeah high res screenshot would be much better. soon i am sure we'll get some

[ANova]

Granted they're a very low res, and desperately need some AA as a result...

But you're trying to say a game engine without parallax bump mapping, using simple shaders (most of the dx9 shaders can be converted to dx8 with minimal loss of image quality), and a non-dynamic shadow system looks better than these quick teaser pics?

These pics have more in common with Far Cry and Unreal 3 than HL2.

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I'm sorry but no way no how do these even come close to UE3 quality and I think both Far Cry and HL2 look better, especially HL2.

[Flash]

Any word on SM3.0?

[at0mican]

Don't really get why people get so excited over this game. Just a regular FPS. :ermm:

[sanctified Veteran]

Don't really get why people get so excited over this game. Just a regular FPS. :ermm:

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Just a regular FPS?

Have you read about all the features this game has? Or you just decided to shoot in the dark?

Dont answer the questions. The answers are obvious :)

[Chode]

Don't really get why people get so excited over this game. Just a regular FPS. :ermm:

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fps/rpg/free-form game.

More in common with Morrowind and Elite than Half Life 2 or Doom 3.

Well said, Sanctified

[Argote]

Looks pretty good... whoever said HL2 looks "way better" need to lay off the weed

however U3 is leaps and bound above this... heck it even looks better than DOOM3

[srizo]

only thing i notice nice about this game is the nature rendering.. besides that they need to take shots with some AA and AF applied..

[sanctified Veteran]

Looks pretty good... whoever said HL2 looks "way better" need to lay off the weed

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HL2 is one of those games that it doesnt looks better but it does looks better...

Did you understand? :blink:

[kalizar]

i cant see the pics and the link doesnt work. can someone re-post, or email them to me?

[at0mican]

Just a regular FPS?

Have you read about all the features this game has? Or you just decided to shoot in the dark?

Dont answer the questions. The answers are obvious :)

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:unsure: I just prefer Serious Sam / Far Cry.

Looks to me that this game feels too dark and too creepy, I'm done with that sort of genre, Doom3 was the last straw for me. I want bright / fun games. :)

[Chode]

HL2 is one of those games that it doesnt looks better but it does looks better...

Did you understand?  :blink:

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As in the environment seems more immersive? More real than an abstract as other games try to create?

[[SST]SLAYER]

Looks to me that this game feels too dark and too creepy, I'm done with that sort of genre, Doom3 was the last straw for me. I want bright / fun games. :)

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:angry:

OMG

I hear Lego racer and Lego island are fun and bright

I think it's going to rock BRING on the CREEPY! :devil:

[Chode]

i cant see the pics and the link doesnt work.  can someone re-post, or email them to me?

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The page opens here. Try it again?

[ANova]

Looks pretty good... whoever said HL2 looks "way better" need to lay off the weed

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HL2's direction in art design is much more realistic, it does look quite a bit better imo.

[Kerm]

Personally i don't like any of the shots or think that any of them show something worth waiting for.

To me it looks crap. I hope it isn't but c'mon, enough with your shader this and Dx9 that, just sit back and look at the screenshots... they look crap.

[El-Diablo]

i'm not excited about this game in the slightest. I can't really explain it i just don't think it's goin to be everything everyone says it is.

[Chode]

Personally i don't like any of the shots or think that any of them show something worth waiting for.

To me it looks crap. I hope it isn't but c'mon, enough with your shader this and Dx9 that, just sit back and look at the screenshots... they look crap.

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Yeah, 30 square kilometers worth of freeform environment is crap. As are advanced migrational AI methods, full Shader Model 3 support, fall back shaders (backwards compatability), a realistic player damage model, a 24 hour day night cycle, fully upgradable and customisable weapons, intensely detailed post-apocalyptic environments, up to 3 million polygons per frame, full post-processing support, multi-pass rendering, a unique detail object system allowing for higher level detail with less rendering time, parallax bump mapping, ODE based physics which are also used for a wide range of vehicles, vehicles with realistic damage models (aka, crumple damage), photo-realistic textures (because they are photos), true first person dynamic shadowing, material penetration as part of their realistic weapons system, iron sights, extremely large outdoor environments, equipment degredation and malfunction, AI clans, a reputation system among the 100 other AI humans in the game world, forward kinematics, unique locations remaining true to their real-world counterparts, dynamic weather effects (including lightning and wind), true wildlife which you can hunt/kill/eat, and an attempt at a gameplay dynamic which aims for near total realism. All of that really is total crap :rolleyes:

If you think that the screenshots look crap, then you must think that the real world looks crap. Here is a comparison of the real Sarcophagus covering the ruined Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Power Station and the in-game one.