Geomerics Enlighten engine GDC 2008 demonstration

  • Posted February 20th, 2008 at 00:12 EDT by
  • 20 Comments

The video released by Geomeric to the public at GDC 2008 has given gamers a look into an entirely new world of lighting through radiosity. The video below has a run time of roughly 2:40 and will give you an in-depth look at how radiosity can bring an entirely new emotion and feel to certain scenes. According to Geomeric, this new Enlighten engine is easily applicable for developers and can certainly bring out the best in emotional driven games like Resident Evil or an epic role-playing game.

Without much else to say, here is the video in all its glory.

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  1. BlueRevolvuR | BlueRevolvuR

    • 12:14am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 1

    The UE killer?? I hope so. Looks really good.

  2. MrFenwick | SirFenwick

    • 12:19am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 2

    Beautiful. I like the song... I need a name!

  3. Hemin | Herro

    • 12:27am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 3

    the name of the song is in the credits.

  4. Alti | Alti

    • 12:38am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 4

    a lot of engines are better than the UE already =_=;... This engine looks incredible. It makes lighting look absolutely amazing. no edginess or anything!

  5. RedDragon7 | Pheonix7

    • 12:49am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 5

    Wow, thats an incredibly realistic lighting engine. I would love to see this implemented ASAP.

  6. Ensei-Shiki | djinni001

    • 1:17am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 6

    ok developers start implementing NAO!!!

  7. IONIXX | IONIXX

    • 2:41am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 7

    cool

  8. GreyFox666 | GreyFox666

    • 4:03am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 8

    amazing!!

  9. Ferre

    • 4:45am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 9

    I would like if thise was used in online games like COD4. Depending on which country you are located in and the time of the day the lightning is the same in the game as in reality.

  10. AZURA-DRAGON | Azura-Dragon

    • 4:55am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 10

    WOW this engine just WOw

  11. jicaley | UKMF-Jay

    • 5:00am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 11

    Its amazing how much atmosphere good lighting brings to a game.

  12. Uncool | Admodistrator

    • 5:07am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 12

    Amazing engine right there, wonder if they could use that for Uncharted 2 perhaps.

  13. naruto007

    • 8:56am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 13

    there alot of awesome engines out there. to bad most dev use that crappy UT3 engine.

  14. Undead_Elvis

    • 9:03am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 14

    RTFA! :-) This is a lighting solution designed to be incorporated into the main engine and not an engine by itself.

  15. Xdeth | Xdeth

    • 9:30am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 15

    @14 agreed

    If you noticed though, not alot was going on. Basically a girl walking around some cave and palace areas. Thats all good for Tomb raider, but in games like COD4, there might be a problem Mainly with the online play with games like ground war. Very cool engine though, and I'm excited to see what developers will do with it.

  16. hush404 | hush404

    • 9:38am GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 16

    Thats kewl yo. Lighting is the graphical powar of the future.

  17. DeadOnArrival06 | DeadOnArrival06

    • 12:52pm GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 17

    That was amazing. Are games already implementing this or is this brand new?

  18. zbamf

    • 3:59pm GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 18

    What I liked most was that when light from the sun shon on the building it wasn't just bright where the light hits like in every game so far. The whole place started to get brighter and when the sun went down, the place slowly got darker. So instead of all the shadows being the same dark black, with this tool there are variety of soft and sark shadows. Just like in the real world, light travels and bounces of objects and it seemed it does in this new engine.

  19. psn_frov | frov

    • 3:59pm GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 19

    I wonder which games will start using this

  20. stairhopper | STAIRHOPPER

    • 7:43pm GMT - February 20th, 2008
    • 20

    fantastic games like uncharted 2 resi evil 6 (couse we all know they wont stop at 5 even if i am ahead of myself ) even the new saw will deffo benifit from this!!!!!!

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