Lair Engine [Wii Tech Demo]

[Miiaku]

Damn, kudos to these guys for managing to get decent TOD lighting on the Wii. That actually looks pretty badass. Not bad for a 729Mhz processor and only 3MB of VRAM. 0.o

[krizzex]

@Miiaku first off, thats a 729 Mhz "PowerPC" processor and second, it has nothing to do with graphics. The TEV on the Hollywood GPU is what is doing the lighting.

[morefredmoore2]

@Miiaku IT'S THE MAGIC OF FACTOR 5!!!! XD

[XioXaio12]

The Engine I guess was supposed to be used for a long over due Rouge Squadron game for the Wii I guess. 

[Jaques7Chef]

At least this shows that Factor 5 still cares about Nintendo's consoles. They're having trouble putting the original Rogue Squadron on the Virtual Console with legal issues and employee payment problems.

[nooblet911]

are tey still around?

I've heard they are defunct since may 2009 or so

[Jaques7Chef]

It says on both Wikipedia and the Star Wars Wiki that they "closed their doors" around that date because of employment payment and legal issues, but the Factor 5 website is still there so I don't know. They still have a "TBA" project on the site.

[mrscastellar]

if this is a wii tech dem why dont the games look like this!!!

[TheAssailant6661]

wow, Factor 5 weren't kidding when they said they could easily max out the Wii. Now if they could just tell us WHAT they're working on...

[h5e5l5l5o5]

They are working on something secret for wii?

[TheAssailant6661]

They have been for the past 2 years now

[maxcoola]

lair on the wii ... it like a shit on a pieces! of shit lollXD :)

[t377y000]

it didnt even show anything but a flash but im sure it would look pretty decent on the wii

[Oni64]

Very true, even RS2(which came out on the gamecubes launch date) looks better than most Wii game out there right now.

[Oni64]

Factor 5 are capable of making it close as possible to the PS3 build.

[silenceofthehills]

I think it would be better then High Voltage's attempt too, look at SW:RS2-3. That's a GC game too.

[specht2006]

Wow, I guess Factor 5 wasn't lying when they said the Wii had potential other developers weren't taking advantage of.

Lair may have been a better (more well recieved anyway) game for Wii than PS3.

[halfmanhalfman]

This pisses me off to no ends. Why does every company (except high voltage) neglect us.

[silenceofthehills]

Actually as of now, I think even High Voltage's attempt could be looked badly upon. Unless they remove all the slowdown I've seen, people will still ttalk badly about Wii's performance.

I mean, the game still doesn't look like the better xbox1 games out (Riddick or Doom3). SW:RS2-3 impresses me alittle more then The Conduit personally. So big and fluid, yet so much bump mapping and nice effects.

[halfmanhalfman]

Yea, I think that's why the release was delayed to remove all the bugs and slowdowns.

[bigdaddyfranchise]

silence the conduit is not even done and ign and gamespot already says it looks better than halo 2 graphics wise but wii ram is smaller it cant handle too many player unlike halo 2 but other 3rd parties like high voltage really needs to try harder.

[silenceofthehills]

I know. I just think F5 would do so much better. Seen some of their other canceled work at unseen64 and it's amazing. You should take a look.

GC has even smaller ram & has hords of enemies on screen with the SW:RS. Vram only stores texture veriety & front/back/z-buffers.

Polys go with bandwidth & a geo engine buffer. Because they'd have enough for the consoles max polys, there isn't a thing to worry about.

It's all about the engine having it "out of the box". Been that way w ps2/GC too.

[silenceofthehills]

I think devs are too lazy.

[brixter11]

an xbox has 64 mb and wii has 88mb ram

[TheRunningScout]

@brixter11 i kno this was months ago but the 360 has 512 mb or ram

[brixter11]

i was talking about the first xbox :D

[Madnam]

Lair... On the Wii!?

[ScrewAttackEurope]

When you say Lair, it's nothng to do with the PS3 game?

[monokoma]

yeah, it is a downgraded Wii port of the original Lair 3D engine that was on the PS3

[ScrewAttackEurope]

Interesting, I doubt it'll happen now though, Lair has too much of a stigmata about it now.

It'd be like porting Haze to the Wii.

[ItsJustAC]

It wasn't really about the game though, but the engine technology for an upcoming exclusive. Of course, with Factor 5's troubles we have no idea if it will ever see the light of day.

[thespaceyeti]

mmh already know this vid for like 2 years now.. it is from the factor 5 website..

[decimaldude]

"Wow...What was it?"

"Lighting and Terrain Generation" with the Lair engine for the Wii.