nVidia Dawn Ultra demo (HD)

Dawn Ultra Demo (GeForce FX) (HD)


Welcome to our enchanted forest a place where virtual meets reality. This is the domain of the prettiest pixie to ever grace the computer screen. While her existence may only be virtual, the life-like effects made possible with GeForce FX will convince you that she is real. She is brought to life through the magic of complex vertex shaders that provide for both skeletal (body) animation, and blend shape (facial) animation. But, what truly sets her apart from those cyborg computer characters that once passed for living creatures is skin -beautiful human skin. She is covered with an intricate skin shader that accounts for all the subtleties of human skin. This includes consideration of the oilyness of the skin surface, the amount of blood that runs just beneath the surface, and surface highlights as light hits her skin at glancing angles. In her enchanted world, it's unclear where fantasy ends and reality begins.

Key Features: * Vertex Shaders - Two key vertex shaders drive her motion: a branching skeletal shader where the body mesh is driven by several different combinations of internal bones, and a blend shape shader that deforms her face based on control parameters. Skin Shader - This uses a complex combination of color maps, specular maps, and blood characteristic maps to produce very realistic skin. In addition, lighting subtleties are accomplished with a series of cube maps for diffuse specular and "highlight" skin lighting. * Wing Shader - A translucent shader is used for the wings. This modifies both the reflected color off the wings as well as the amount of light passing through the wings based on viewing and light angles.

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  Science & Technology

[MrDevlance]

ATi has just one bitch, nvidia has an entire harem of them :D

[Vermiliontea]

Sometimes, particularly on internet and indeed Youtube, it is futile to patiently and clearly, keep trying to explain things to wailing and flailing fan-boys.

I know this in advance, I assure you. Often pointless and in vain. But I do not consider it stupid. I consider it a personal code I behave according to.

And it's not always futile. Not always. And thus it's not stupid either.

(Besides, LA Noire look like shit, regardless.)

[FireFlameFury]

That's what I said. I do not think he speaks like that in real life. LMFAO!!!

[Hypernl]

Even PC Only games still do not have the level of detail of this pretty.

[nerfmyaccount]

consoles holding PC games back for portability.

[Juan Tomas Alvarez]

Can't believe that more than half a decade later, we still have no game that comes close to the level of detail of dawn

[france29111]

Pause at 2:38 and you will know what i mean

[france29111]

The card only render a few thing. The back ground is just a 2D image that follows the camera and the branch has a very simple wire framing. The card or the demo focus more on the fairy

[gravityhammer25]

2002?!?! Damn.... this is impressive.

[furiousfluffypanda]

aaaaah good old times with my FX 5700. This card now belongs to my gf.

[Casey Edwards]

i appreciate that your trying to sound smart in the comment however this is youtube

and i highly doubt you speak like that in real life

[armpitdew]

btw, where's the naked demo?