Tessellation king? Particle king?

Crysis 3 and Metro last light are really top notch for particles. But honestly I think SS takes the cake aesthetically for me.

It does but it's used a lot and Crysis 2 used it a lot more on the terrain then Crysis 3 does, the CryEngine SDK has a demo level and that baby uses it on pretty much every surface.

So the functionality is there.

Particles, Far Cry Blood Dragon had some good particles.

where does crysis 2 use tessellation on the terrain? the rock piles in the first level arent terrain, they are entities.

@Ben-Buja said:

Modded Crysis 2 has some pretty nice tessellation:

And Crysis 3 has some of the best particle effects. It has volumetric fog and smoke that casts shadows and is affected by simulated wind and even explosions

What's with this facination with the fucking ground in 90% of Crysis pics? is that the only good looking part of the game other then Psycho's face?

I've taken these pictures to show the high res textures that come with Maldo 4.0 ,and I've posted the ground pictures here because I wanted to show the tessellation in Crysis 2, since this is a topic about tessellation you know.

I have tons of Crysis screenshots that are not of the ground.

Fixed :D

Wrong. My intention was to show tessellation.

But it's not tessellation. It's parallax occlusion mapping.

the pc clowns on this board dont know what tessellation is

I know that now, it was my mistake, but my intention was to show tessellation.

Actually, at least one of the screenshots (middle screen of 5) is showing tessellation and displacement, the giveaway is the slight texture stretching at the cracks of each brick on the floor.

Hey it's that clown who thinks 4k needs more AA than temporal SMAA and that maxing out includes AA. Yeah... -.-

seeing as how you dont even know when your looking at tessellation, its no surprise you wouldnt be able to notice aliasing. and if a game includes AA in its options, then yeah its part of maxing it out.

maxing out means running at your monitors native res. aa is a graphic setting. afaik cryengine sdk doesnt support terrain tessellation.

Interesting. Are you certain the brick from screen 3 does not use tessellation and displacement? It has the telltale distortion at the edges of all the bricks? Pretty dam dodgy texturing if not.

PC pretty much everything gfx king. And well gameplay king too tbh but that is for another thread.

Fair cop I will take your word for it.

I don't have sufficient experience with Cry Engine for a fair shout; but I am used to UDK tessellation, which gives a very very similar effect as seen in that shot, with the blurred protrusion. Different engines obviously handle materials and lighting differently though.

theres no point responding to your rhetorical aa question as no such situation actually exists. cryengine 3 can tessellate entities, but not terrain afaik.

You didn't know it either until scatteh316 pointed it out, or you would have said something.

A PC gamer making a mistake? You would have been all over that if you knew it at the time. You're not fooling anybody.

or maybe its because ive already been thru this in a different thread with the exact same screens. you hermits rly are clueless. you couldnt post a screen of crysis 3 where tessellation was actually being used if your life depended on it.

and its not a mistake when you flat out lack knowledge

What does tessellation king mean? Does it mean which game spams the most tessellation? or the game that minimises the amount of tessellation while maintaining visual quality? The first is impressive in the case of the engine's processing capability, the second is impressive from the shader writer's ability to keep visual quality high with limited resources.

i understood the question as the game with the most visual improvement from tessellation. i dont rly think theres a good winner because there are no games where tessellation does anything meaningful.

It's easy to mix up POM and tessellation from just looking at a ground, which the whole debate in this thread proves, hence why it was a mistake and not lack of knowledge.

I don't know which other thread you're talking about, these screens were taken by me. Sounds like bullshit.

Just admit you didn't know that they show POM either until scatteh pointed it out. It's not the end of the world.