Half Life 3 Speculation - Graphics

THIS IS WHAT I THINK WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE GRAPHICAL ENGINE. I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE. Sorry about the poor quality, this was released before the days of youtube HD and I never thought that youtube would actually do it. Amazing how things progress, huh? Shame the same can't be said about graphics technologies, which seem to have slowed down recently. I blame the current consoles and their hardware limitations. I feel that they will dictate the graphics in games from now on, pray for the Playstation 4 and Xbox big number soon!

Although a lot of these technologies are playable in realtime already, I doubt we'll see them in games for a while because game designers tend to make games for the lowest common denominator. Once the slowest PCs out can support things, we'll see wider adoption of them. If you want to know how long that will be, try to follow the latest CPUs being released (Sandybridge and Bulldozer, from Intel and AMD respectively). These new CPUs manage to squeeze a graphics card on them as well. They're still slow, though it would help the entire WORLD if they decide to step up their game a bit. Stupid integrated graphics. And stupid Nvidia for keeping PhysX to themselves, instead of letting other companies use the code as well. Nvidia has messed up the potential for real time physics in games, unless somebody comes along and makes an open-source equivalent. I guess that Havok is the closest thing to this.

I also have some speculation at the end about Half Life 3. But it's probably not right because it's just speculation! but it's fun just predicting things and seeing how they end up anyway.

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ADDITIONAL STUFF THAT MIGHT BE INCLUDED

PARALLAX MAPPING
Parallax mapping is already pretty much obsolete thanks to tessellation support in dx11, I have no doubt that it will become used more and more as time goes on, especially if the next generation of consoles support it. Below is a pretty video showing tessellation, on the famous unigine 2.1 Heaven benchmark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkKtY2G3FbU

RAYTRACING
Raytracing is the other biggie I missed out of this video. So far there are very few interesting examples of it in realtime. Personally I'm not too impressed by the reflection demos, I'm far more interested in the lighting potential it has. Nvidia has a nice car example (you can download it if you have an nvidia 400 or 500 series graphics card)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHAIWOIxv3Q

There's also a nice minecraft raytracing video that shows how much better the lighting will look if done with raytracing. There's still a large amount of noise when moving the camera about though, this will likely lessen as time goes on and processing becomes faster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ62VwiLr3A

VOXELS
It's like Delta Force, all over again! Imagine a world made up of lots and lots of small 'bits'. Like lego. This is a long way off being viable, but obviously simulating a world out of lots of small bits is beneficial. It's almost like the way that real life works! The only thing I know that could possibly support this so far is ID Tech 6, the next engine on from the one powering RAGE.

If I've missed out anything big then please tell me.

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Scenes included in this video (in order)...

Source Engine - Source - Half Life 2
Radiosity - Geomerics - Enlighten
Parallax Mapping - Source - Simulated with Polygons
Rays of light - Crytek 2 - Crysis
Wood Splintering - Pixelux DMM- Starwars
Door example - Source - Simulated with physics objects
Castle smashing - DMM - Pixelux
Destructable walls - Geomod - Red Faction
Rugby Scene (Animations) - Euphoria - Back Breaker
Dented Oildrums - Ageia - Ageia
Real time water #1 - Ageia - Unreal Engine 3
Real time water #2 - Realflow - Maya (This one isn't in real-time... yet)

Youtube videos in thie video...

Canapin (Red Faction)
Whuijben (For making the great dam scene!)

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[MrZackarius]

Couldn't Half Life 3 be also called Life and a Half?

[3kliksphilip]

@MrZackarius Full-Life. YBox 360. Both should be made.

[dannyday58218195]

hahaha what a joke - instead after all this awsome fuckin technology what will we get... more shitty scripted COD crap

the future will be plauged with COD everything.

someone get the delorian and stop the people who ever created COD

[3kliksphilip]

@dannyday58218195 Look up the ID Tech 6 engine. Shame it'll be about a LIFETIME before it's out.

[amped46]

Didn't PCGameinformer or whoever is really good friends with valve say in their new releases list:

"Half Life 3:

And It Looks Amazing. Suprise."

[3kliksphilip]

@amped46 Oh, you mean in their 2011 PREDICTIONS article? Hint's in the title.

[masterofall66]

When half life 3 comes out. The stuff in this video will be outdated!

:D

[5che13e]

Valve's still not saying anything wether or not they are working or planning a new HL?

[FirefoXDMedia]

Too bad they won't make a new engine... Source is outdated already, no matter how many updates they will make.

[xicario129]

they always gonna use the havok engine

[ModsGameplayGuy]

Im watching this in 2012

[davidpholtz]

@MrZackarius no because half life 3 means an radioactive substance has a half life of 3

[DanielSturk1]

@Daveze0920 Sure, give me a link. Im sure its fake though

[hylianknight3]

@3kliksphilip i hope you realize that half-life is refering to chemistry sir, there is no such thing as a full-life

[dannyday58218195]

@Jonscomin2 ya know its true though - 100 years time - V.R COD. guarentee it

[Jonscomin2]

@dannyday58218195 QQ faggot

[Daveze0920]

@DanielSturk1 I promise its not fake I trust that site to 100% I'll give you a message with a link to prove it