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FiringSquad: In the shadow buffers white paper, you mention that shadow buffer technology was used in the Final Fantasy movie. How feasible is it to implement Final Fantasy-like graphics on the PC?
David Kirk: Technically it is very feasible, as witnessed by the fact we are playing back the Final Fantasy movie in real-time and allowing you to interact with the scene....
It takes a powerful GPU and a pretty powerful PC to play back Final Fantasy in real time...
Final Fantasy graphics in a game would be limited only to the power user crowd.[/i] >>
I admit I know very little when it comes to 3D technology nor do I really know how much technology has advanced, but this really surprised me! :Q Considering that it took Square walls of thousands of CPUs to render the movie, I found David Kirk's claim hard to believe (even though he DID say that they already are playing it in real-time). Even thinking that the girl had 10,000(?) individual strands of hair to render is mind blowing. But then, maybe nVidia really is that good...what do you guys think?
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FiringSquad: In the shadow buffers white paper, you mention that shadow buffer technology was used in the Final Fantasy movie. How feasible is it to implement Final Fantasy-like graphics on the PC?
David Kirk: Technically it is very feasible, as witnessed by the fact we are playing back the Final Fantasy movie in real-time and allowing you to interact with the scene....
It takes a powerful GPU and a pretty powerful PC to play back Final Fantasy in real time...
Final Fantasy graphics in a game would be limited only to the power user crowd.[/i] >>
I admit I know very little when it comes to 3D technology nor do I really know how much technology has advanced, but this really surprised me! :Q Considering that it took Square walls of thousands of CPUs to render the movie, I found David Kirk's claim hard to believe (even though he DID say that they already are playing it in real-time). Even thinking that the girl had 10,000(?) individual strands of hair to render is mind blowing. But then, maybe nVidia really is that good...what do you guys think?
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