Could this be a new coaster sim?

Maybe NL2 or SM2?

I remember that pic. Buster took the pic. It is a beta for NL2.

ahhhh, THAT. IS. AMAZING. PERIOD.[worship]

What happens in 2010? NL2 release date is late 2008 early 2009.

It is a screen somebody created and rendered, not a coaster simulation. The whole Buster and NL2 thing was a joke I came up with a long time ago lol.

Originally posted by stinger

What happens in 2010? NL2 release date is late 2008 early 2009.

Amen.

Originally posted by dcs221

It is a screen somebody created and rendered, not a coaster simulation. The whole Buster and NL2 thing was a joke I came up with a long time ago lol.

Whoops...[xx(]

That would bully the mess out of a computer's framerate </3

[Turbo]

I've seen that pic. it is just a modified picture.

That pic is awesome.

I set it as my background. =]

if it were possible to render something that beautiful in real time on even a high end gaming computer today, I would kick myself in the face for not having bought that hardware when I could've.

If that was real, that would have been incredible. Still a pretty sweet pic though.

Heh, Dcs told me about this a long time ago.

Beautiful picture, it would be great if NL2 could look like that.

[hyyyper]

well....some nerd guy came up with a rule that computer performances doubles every x-amount of time, so we'll just have to wait and wait and wait and eventually NL63 will have such graphics or something

Apart from the trees, with DirectX 10.1, in a year or two this is the sorta graphics we will be looking at on high end gaming i think

i mean, the water is slightly better than HL2
photorelistic textures ... enter Crysis
DirectX 10.1 deals with grass and stuff that needs to be rendered again and again and again...

im not sure NL qualifies for high end gaming tho...

[gouldy]

I saw that on google images like 2 years ago or something. whether it was that long ago or not I dunno lol, but it was a while ago that's for sure

Originally posted by hyyyper

well....some nerd guy came up with a rule that computer performances doubles every x-amount of time, so we'll just have to wait and wait and wait and eventually NL63 will have such graphics or something

He isn't a nerd he is one of the founders of Intel.
And the rule you mean is: the Law of Moore.
That says: that the amount of transitors in a Chip double's every 18 months.
But CPU's are already at there top at the moment, the solution for that are multicore CPU's. Anothers are Nanotube CPU's or CPU's with Quantium Bits.
But i doubt that this kind of render would come in any sim the next 5 years. Even when VGA card became faster.

I have crysis and the graphics are indeed that good but that photo looks like a maya sort of rend. ive seen the same sort of render using maya, i don't actually have maya myself but ive seen people using it. Why doesn't someone find the picture and read the website it is on, mabie it will explain the picture to you!

You all ask if the graphics could be that good soon,check out Farcry 2.

Originally posted by skullkeeperz

I have crysis and the graphics are indeed that good but that photo looks like a maya sort of rend. ive seen the same sort of render using maya, i don't actually have maya myself but ive seen people using it. Why doesn't someone find the picture and read the website it is on, mabie it will explain the picture to you!

The meer fact you have the software to run crysis is pretty cool.

it doesnt take that much to run crysis... ^^^ anything in the nvidia 8000 series will run it just fine graphicly. 2 gigs of ram as opposed to 1 certainly helps though

http://www.dans-home.de/images/wp/2006-05/alan_wake.jpg

http://www.fpsteam.it/img2007/Crysis/Crysis_05.jpg

Scenes like that original one posted are already possible like others have already mentioned.

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by master of hardcore

hyyyper

He isn't a nerd he is one of the founders of Intel.
And the rule you mean is: the Law of Moore.

there, you said it yourself, you gotta be nerd to found Intel

[Dirk_Ermen]

Originally posted by Canadmos

http://www.dans-home.de/images/wp/2006-05/alan_wake.jpg

http://www.fpsteam.it/img2007/Crysis/Crysis_05.jpg

Scenes like that original one posted are already possible like others have already mentioned.

Don't post pictures but show screenshots

Couldn't resist...

http://chrisevans3d.com/images/crysis_h ... rysis8.jpg

http://www.se51.net/devnull/wp-content/ ... ryhigh.jpg