Frostbite 2 Looks Amazing!

Gundog48 · 26 Feb 2011 at 14:14

After hearing about BF3 I was very excited so did some reading on Frostbite 2 which is going to be the game engine for BF3. It looks absolutely fantastic! For once it will be a PC --> Console port rather than the other way round. Now I can show my friends what a PC can really do!

Frostbite 2 seems to have excellent real time lighting as well as having DX11, this seems to be lined up to be the best PC game (at least graphically) for a long time.

Real time lighting in FB2:

Wikipedia said:
The next generation of Frostbite will debut with Battlefield 3. It will take full advantage of the DirectX 11 API and 64-bit processors,[2] with no support for DirectX 9 (nor, therefore, Windows XP).[3] It will also feature enhanced in-game destruction with Destruction 3.0, creating more refined physics than its predecessor.

At SIGGRAPH 2010, DICE gave several presentations on advances in their rendering technology:

* "Tile-based deferred shading acceleration" via DirectCompute.[4] This is being ported to the PlayStation 3's SPUs.
* Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA), again implemented with DirectCompute, for bandwidth conservation.[4] MLAA is currently available only to a few PlayStation 3 games such as God of War III and LittleBigPlanet 2. DICE intends to bring this feature to DirectX 11 GPUs.
* Quasi-realtime radiosity.[5]
* Improved environment destruction.[6]

Aedus · 26 Feb 2011 at 14:30

Been posted in the BF3 thread, there's also a video there.

Tythus · 26 Feb 2011 at 15:22

Aedus said:
Been posted in the BF3 thread, there's also a video there.

link to post or vid?

Gelly54 · 26 Feb 2011 at 17:59

that picture isnt great but yeah i agree it will look awesome

Rroff · 26 Feb 2011 at 18:03

I hope they won't shove Morphological Anti-Aliasing at PC users - its horrible when you have alternatives such as on my setup like 64x4 TRAA.

That picture might not look great in a conventional sense but its showing off the radiosity/global illumination and soft shadowing quality, which is fairly decent if its realtime rather than pre-baked.

Aedus · 26 Feb 2011 at 18:17

Tythus said:
link to post or vid?

Streeteh · 26 Feb 2011 at 18:19

Rroff said:
I hope they won't shove Morphological Anti-Aliasing at PC users

While i hope they don't FORCE it, it would be nice as an option. From what little i know it's like a poor mans AA, it does the job nearly as well but with a fraction of the performance hit. For people like me that aren't too fussed about jaggies, it's quite a nice option to have.

It worked well in GoW3, if you consider the hardware it ran on, it looked stunning.

Gashman · 26 Feb 2011 at 18:27

just looks like a poormans version of cryengine2 and 3. :confused:

buchtis · 26 Feb 2011 at 18:31

Not at all impressed to be fair, Cryengine is looks much better.

WingZero30 · 26 Feb 2011 at 18:39

CryEngine3 vs Frostbite2

skullman · 26 Feb 2011 at 18:46

for some reason I thought of mirrors edge when I saw the screenie in the op

Klo · 26 Feb 2011 at 19:02

skullman said:
for some reason I thought of mirrors edge when I saw the screenie in the op

Same, although remember Mirrors Edge is created by Dice, although it was done on the UE3 engine I think.

Tefal · 26 Feb 2011 at 19:22

Rroff said:
I hope they won't shove Morphological Anti-Aliasing at PC usersQUOTE]

yeah, may was well just run some Vaseline on your screen tbh

Ravenger · 26 Feb 2011 at 19:38

Tefal said:
yeah, may was well just run some Vaseline on your screen tbh

I can get the same effect running a game at half-res and getting my LCD to scale it. :rolleyes:

Rroff · 26 Feb 2011 at 20:07

I don't mind if Morphological Anti-Aliasing is an option - I just hope they don't try and make it the way of doing AA in the engine... as its seriously inferior to the AA my setup is capable of.

Remeber these images/videos are all tech proof of concept for testing the lighting and shader mechanics in the engine and won't represent the art direction or quality of the final product.