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R420 in Action?

Ontario license plate on the blue Ferrari, it's definately ATi something. Whatever ATi chip it is, it's making some awesome visuals.
 
Originally posted by: MDE
Ontario license plate on the blue Ferrari, it's definately ATi something. Whatever ATi chip it is, it's making some awesome visuals.
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Saleen, not Ferrari
 
Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
very nice... though the race car model is strangely similar to the one used for the Radeon 9700 series demo.
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That was an Ferrari F50 IIRC in the 9700 demo.
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: MDE
Ontario license plate on the blue Ferrari, it's definately ATi something. Whatever ATi chip it is, it's making some awesome visuals.
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Saleen, not Ferrari
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Looked like a Ferrari to me. 😛
 
Come on man, thats a Saleen S7 -- the same one as the red one in the Gillette Commercial for Mach 3 hehhe...nice car.

Edit: Do you guys think the graphics are really that intense? I mean they are good but nothing that a 9700Pro cannot do...? I guess you'd have to see it live to really appreciate it on a larger monitor. What kind of cards do they use exactly for movies like Finding Nemo? Now those are amazing graphics.... and I dont think even R500 will touch that.
 
What kind of cards do they use exactly for movies like Finding Nemo?
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probably a matrox.

More seriuosly, movies are rendered in software not hardware, frame-by-frame using a cluster of boxes to divide up the work.
 
I think they use the slower, but higher quality CAD-type cards. Oxygen brand, maybe? I saw one a few weeks back that had 768MB of ram!
 
I dont see anything there that would lead us to believe that wasnt software rendered, or even done on current hardware.

This is just to demonstrate the XNA toolset from MS. Which from what ive gathered is something like a proprietary engine plugin for DX8/9/Next
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
I dont see anything there that would lead us to believe that wasnt software rendered, or even done on current hardware.

This is just to demonstrate the XNA toolset from MS. Which from what ive gathered is something like a proprietary engine plugin for DX8/9/Next
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I'm going to second this opinion. It would be cool if that was the 420 being shown off, but things like the Xenomorph scenes with the furry creatures have already been done(by a DX8 class card no less). Likely, there's some MS rep down at GDC telling all the devs about how easy those effects were to program using XNA. At the very least, that certainly wasn't real-time rendered for the crowd; MS showed off the exact same videos down at GDC, and for something like that, you don't leave it to chance. At the very most, it was real-time rendered ahead of time and recorded for the crowd.
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
I dont see anything there that would lead us to believe that wasnt software rendered, or even done on current hardware.

This is just to demonstrate the XNA toolset from MS. Which from what ive gathered is something like a proprietary engine plugin for DX8/9/Next
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Ditto. Rendering to wmv could have taken a month for all we know. Great modelling though. Showing the tool probably would have been more impressive. Every seen the Hash demo of Animation: Master? Wow.

BTW, it is a Saleen. Don't believe? Check out the rear bumper near the beginning... S A L E E N 😉 Ferrari's front badge is a black horse on a yellow shield. That front badge is red. 🙂

Edit - Dug through it. XNA is a unified API set covering both XBox and PC DirectX stuff. Design in hopes of allowing better portability and better usage of hardware while isolating the developer from tweaking for the hardware.
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
I dont see anything there that would lead us to believe that wasnt software rendered, or even done on current hardware.

This is just to demonstrate the XNA toolset from MS. Which from what ive gathered is something like a proprietary engine plugin for DX8/9/Next
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I disagree. Maybe the encoding caused some edges to appear through downsampling, I think the video wasnt rendered using a software layer. It would have been more crisp than that. The car can easily be reproduced by a 9700 series radeon , and a lot of other effects arent out of the league of the GPU either.

On a side note, DX9 is looking mighty impressive when applied....
 
Originally posted by: RussianSensation
Come on man, thats a Saleen S7 -- the same one as the red one in the Gillette Commercial for Mach 3 hehhe...nice car.
What kind of cards do they use exactly for movies like Finding Nemo? Now those are amazing graphics.... and I dont think even R500 will touch that.
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nVidia would have you believe any GeForce can. 😉
 
Originally posted by: bluemax
Originally posted by: RussianSensation
Come on man, thats a Saleen S7 -- the same one as the red one in the Gillette Commercial for Mach 3 hehhe...nice car.
What kind of cards do they use exactly for movies like Finding Nemo? Now those are amazing graphics.... and I dont think even R500 will touch that.
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nVidia would have you believe any GeForce can. 😉
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They'll have you believe that a geforce FX can cook too...

Oh wait, the FX5800 proberly could with a few adjustments 🙂
 
For the skeptics, sorry couldn't resist. (ATi FANBOi Powa)
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Taken from here.

CHRIS DONAHUE: So all the demos today are going to be running on Windows XP with next generation ATI hardware. Some of the components of XNA that you'll see will be HLSL, XACT. We're also using the common controller interfaces and we're running controller S on Windows XP right now.
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Originally posted by: SithSolo1
For the skeptics, sorry couldn't resist. (ATi FANBOi Powa)
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Taken from here.

CHRIS DONAHUE: So all the demos today are going to be running on Windows XP with next generation ATI hardware. Some of the components of XNA that you'll see will be HLSL, XACT. We're also using the common controller interfaces and we're running controller S on Windows XP right now.
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The key word, realtime, is missing.
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
Originally posted by: SithSolo1
For the skeptics, sorry couldn't resist. (ATi FANBOi Powa)
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Taken from here.

CHRIS DONAHUE: So all the demos today are going to be running on Windows XP with next generation ATI hardware. Some of the components of XNA that you'll see will be HLSL, XACT. We're also using the common controller interfaces and we're running controller S on Windows XP right now.
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The key word, realtime, is missing.
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Erm, its quite clear its real-time, after all, ATI dont specialise in 2fps now do they ?
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What was seen in the demo has been seen in other demo's before, so I find it quite believable. And no, Im not an ATI fan boy or whatever.
 
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