Far Cry 2

[Dennis Lee]

Look at the kind of technology that's out there! This is waaaay better than OpenGL.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/21/check-out-far-cry-2s-map-editor/

[Karl Ottenstein]

Dennis wrote:
Look at the kind of technology that's out there! This is waaaay better than OpenGL.

Very cool! But, that map editor and OpenGL are not alternatives ... so "better than" is not the way to look at it. 😉

Cheers,
Karl

[Anonymous]

Exactly, and look at the latest demo of RAGE (http://www.vimeo.com/1598029). If you know what to do there is no difference between DirectX and OpenGL.

[Dennis Lee]

Karl wrote:
...that map editor and OpenGL are not alternatives...

Hi Karl, not really sure what you meant by above. I think OpenGL may not be the word I should have used technically, but I was really impressed by the real time rendering of the scenes w/ the ability to control lighting, etc., instant terrain / river modeling, and instant creation of 3d forests (with full detail of all individual trees), and the super easy interface to work in 3d.

[Anonymous]

Dennis, this terrain editor is only this - terrain editor. All the objects in the library have been created in other 3d packages. It's like Archicad with only mesh tool and Objects Tool. It looks impressive because it has a very nice (for the game) library of objects.

[Anonymous]

The Cry-engine 2 used in Crysis and the modified engine in Far-cry2 are stunning pieces of technology. I have to agree that our little OpenGL accelerated 3d window does look a bit pathetic when you see it running on the same hardware!

That's what you get with 4(?) years development and a budget of 10s of millions of Euros, as opposed to the finite development funds of Nemetschek/Graphisoft.

This is a beautiful example of architectural visualisation viewed in real-time in Crysis. I seem to remember reading that the building was modelled in Allplan, exported to MAX and textured, then imported into Crysis.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x158fp_imagtp-cry-engine-2