CGI is still light years above game graphics

Some Blender models:

Show your best mods PC gamers :P

I think everyone already knew this...

Doesn't everybody know this?

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CGI stands for Computer Generated Images. Video games are CGI too

Great now my keyboards all sticky

Depends on the era of CGI u are talking about.

Those GTA pics look amazing.

Well think about this, a high poly model like the blender model of the frog with ray tracing etc etc could take anywhere from 2-30 minutes to render 1 frame of it. Games need to render 30-60 times a second. So yeah we still have a lot of technological setbacks, it will be a while before games look like that. We arent even close to what graphics can be for games.

how about if we turn is as....

CONSOLE CG VS PC CG!!!!!!

Versus

GT5 (more like Photo mode but whaever)

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This thread was amazing, keep up the great work.

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firefluff3

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White knight Cronicle

Show me what you have PC master race :twisted:

Light years is a measurement of distance not time. Your thread title failed.

You learn new things everyday!

But not right now >.>

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r12qi

FF 13

White knight Cronicle

Show me what you have PC master race :twisted:

You do realize that the CGI used in PC games and console games will be very similar in quality? :P CGI is CGI, bro.

looks like modded crysis

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theuncharted34

FF 13

White knight Cronicle

Show me what you have PC master race :twisted:

You do realize that the CGI used in PC games and console games will be very similar in quality? :P CGI is CGI, bro.

Show ME PC exclusive CG :P

Not sure if this CG but

How did you get GTA 4 to look that good, I have mine maxed out and it doesn't look like that!com2006

How did you get GTA 4 to look that good, I have mine maxed out and it doesn't look like that!com2006

a MOD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfGIs-NiX-g&feature=related

Game graphics will never reach CGI simply because of time constraints. A console has to render a frame 30 to 60 times evrry second. When i work in C4D it can take upwards of 10 minutes to render out one frame. I'm not sure what the point of this thread is other than to show how little people know about how 3d rendering works.

Can you control CGI?

That is why it is best looking and it'll always be.

What no smoking bandit said:

CGI will ALWAYS look better than traditional rasterization graphics simply because you are not limited by real time rendering in a specific set fo hardware.

A studio can (and does) throw a couple of behemoth server farms at the problem and they don't midn waiting hours for a single frame to render.

That's probably never goign to be the case with gaming - except maybe int he far future when we all have 100 Giggabyte pipes to the web, and OnLive-like services are all that there is.

Can you control CGI?

DealRogers

I imagine a rail-shooter or a heavy QTE based CGI game could work as a game. And don't forget Donkey Kong Country on the SNES which had pre-rendered graphics and wowed just about anyone back then.

Game graphics will never reach CGI simply because of time constraints. A console has to render a frame 30 to 60 times evrry second. When i work in C4D it can take upwards of 10 minutes to render out one frame. I'm not sure what the point of this thread is other than to show how little people know about how 3d rendering works.

nosmokingbandit

Exactly. If video game scenes could be rendered beforehand rather than in real-time, than games really would look like Avatar.

Thanks to consoles

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Can you control CGI?

nameless12345

I imagine a rail-shooter or a heavy QTE based CGI game could work as a game. And don't forget Donkey Kong Country on the SNES which had pre-rendered graphics and wowed just about anyone back then.

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Can you control CGI?

nameless12345

I imagine a rail-shooter or a heavy QTE based CGI game could work as a game. And don't forget Donkey Kong Country on the SNES which had pre-rendered graphics and wowed just about anyone back then.

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Can you control CGI?

nosmokingbandit

I imagine a rail-shooter or a heavy QTE based CGI game could work as a game. And don't forget Donkey Kong Country on the SNES which had pre-rendered graphics and wowed just about anyone back then.

Perhaps in the future we'll see even more merging of CGI and real-time graphics (especially on the consoles).

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Can you control CGI?

nameless12345

I imagine a rail-shooter or a heavy QTE based CGI game could work as a game. And don't forget Donkey Kong Country on the SNES which had pre-rendered graphics and wowed just about anyone back then.

No becasue a videogame has to render its visuals in real time. Toy story and other amazing cgi takes a huge amount of time with many an insane amount of computers to render.

Unrealted to your post, I'm also laughing at the "consoles" comments.

Yeah? When you are given an infinite amount of time to run hundreds of lighting calculations on a single, stactic picture, you can get some amazing results.

That said, video games need to do every bit of rendering a minimum of 30 times per second. Often this means the scene is renered 5-6 times depending on the amount of postprocessing you have in the game.

Pre rendered will always be abovve real time graphics. Know why, because they're both evolving at the same time. lol

im still waiting for a cgi movie with realistic looking people and realistic animations

There's something wrong about that egg yolk...mrmusicman247

What's the point of this thread exactly? Like we don't know that pre-rendered graphics will be better than non-pre-rendered graphics....because....they are PRE-RENDERED. And pre-rendering at that level of detail requires a rendering farm of a hundred computers or so.

im still waiting for a cgi movie with realistic looking people and realistic animations

christiankhs-2

Say what you will about Avatar (as a movie experience) but the CGI in it was breathtaking, serious "uncanny valley" stuff imo.