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Jupiter Tech NOLF2 AVI

by Maarten Goldstein, Apr 23, 2002 10:04am PDT

Related Topics – No One Lives Forever, No One Lives Forever

LithTech today released a new video from their Jupiter tech system. You can grab this video from Fileshack New York City or Fileshack Seattle . The 11.2mb clip (which runs for 33 seconds) "showcases the dynamic lighting and fresnel effects in the sequel to No One Lives Forever". Here's a bit more on the tech

Notice the realistic, reflective water with wave emitters and a particle system at the base of the waterfall combined with the high detail trees in the background. The system behind the sequel to No One Lives Forever, Jupiter features an enriched polygrid that supports dynamic lighting as well as Fresnel reflections. It also supports non-square areas--empowering the creation of more realistic-looking bodies of water. The water system also features wave emitters, cubic environment mapping and a variety of effect triggers

Future videos will show character and object interaction with the water. Update: for those confused about if this is a tech demo or actual No One Lives Forever 2 stuff, here's a note from LithTech "This AVI was taken from the actual Japan level of the sequel to No One Lives Forever. While LithTech is releasing it to showcase the water effects system of Jupiter, it is actual footage taken from within the game".

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What version of the Lithtech engine did Global Ops use? Version 0.000001 beta?

Apr 24, 2002 7:14am PDT

What version of the Lithtech engine did Global Ops use? Version 0.000001 beta? : [7]kami

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Yawn :-0 Its just water

The Lithtech engine STILL sucks...

Apr 23, 2002 11:23am PDT

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Yea! My most anticipated title of the year is looking better, graphically speaking, then I had hoped. Of course, being a Monolith fanboy, I know the gameplay will be class!

My only concern is the engine requirements, NOLF required way too much power to run properly, especially when compared to the competition. I'm really worried that Lithtech is too concerned with trying to be a solution to every genre, and thus their engine seems to quickly acquiring the status of 'bloatware'.

I'd be very comforting if Lithtech/Monolith would start including a few blurbs about engine optimization in their PR releases.

Apr 23, 2002 10:12pm PDT

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- True true, for it's time NOLF needed a monster PC to get the most out of it. : abrasion

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Since a lot of people seem to be wondering about performance, you might want to look at the shakycam footage at Gamespot:
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/products/media/0,11100,532478,00.html

That's from the build at GDC, and it's "gameplay" footage (not properly populated levels yet, but not flyby video either) running on fairly normal PCs.

Bear in mind that the build at GDC was pre-alpha, and would go through at least one more optimization phase before release. (not to mention that many of us will have better hardware by November)

Apr 23, 2002 8:03pm PDT

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What is this mouse issue that everyone keeps mentioning as Lithtechs problem..?

Apr 23, 2002 6:02pm PDT

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  - Hmm. Interesting. I am a game side programmer, but I might see what I can figure out. : cannelbrae

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That's impressive if it's actually in-game.

Apr 23, 2002 5:11pm PDT

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- I saw it at GDC- it is definitely in game. : Foozmelon

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Holy praise be FileShack! 180k/sec!

eat THAT fileplanet

Apr 23, 2002 4:24pm PDT

Holy praise be FileShack! 180k/sec! eat THAT fileplanet : timmie

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I agree with whoever said it was the color that was making it hard to see. But Yeah, if you pay close attention, you can see right to the bottom. That looks pretty, actually. I like the effects on the water, it actually 'feels', and looks like real water. The waterfall is nice too. Normally I save my praises for the usually visually superior ID games, but this time, I will say that this actually is shaping up to be a sweet looking game. This 'demon' is actually more impressive than those screenies first released a while back, which showed no action. That's probably why DOOM impresses me so much. Seeing those characters speaking, and their flesh like texturing. I don't think the same feel would've been attained through merely screenies. This should serve as a reminder to an prospective developers -- Released showing your game/engine in Action, as opposed to only screenies. Release Videos in Addition to Screenies. That is all. Over and Out!

Apr 23, 2002 3:41pm PDT

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What does the "rate this post" do? A stupid q - I know, but I don't stop by here(at the forums) that often - Almost always new features at the Shack whenever I visit, or maybe I'm not paying attention. thanks tho

Apr 23, 2002 1:59pm PDT

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Okay, is it just me, or has The Shack audience apparently taken a 180-degree turn on its LithTech stance?

I mean, I know you guys love NOLF, and rightly so (because it's the best FPS since Half-Life), but it used to be that if any post had the word "LithTech" in it here you guys would tear the poor LT guys a new one!

BTW - the water isn't the most impressive new LT stuff. Their lip-synching is pretty awesome, and the animation system looks great, too. I spoke with them at GDC and they've now got renderstyles (which means bump mapping et al) on all the world geometry now. The art just isn't ready yet, so they haven't shown it off. That should kick up the rendering quality a notch.

Apr 23, 2002 10:46am PDT

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ROOFLES!

I got fshack working. But you need that ungodly META REFRESH, enabled.

Apr 23, 2002 3:26pm PDT

ROOFLES! I got fshack working. But you need that ungodly META REFRESH, enabled. : h0rus

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great. now all we need is 20GHz CPUs.

Apr 23, 2002 3:25pm PDT

great. now all we need is 20GHz CPUs. : BadRespawn

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That's not a tech demo.. thats a 'look we can make pretty renders if we don't have to worry about machine speed' demo. Lithtech has always run slower than most.. I wonder if a 2ghz machine with a geforce4 could get 2fps in that scene. If they want to show a tech demo, record a computer showing that on the fly.. then I'll ooh and aah.

Apr 23, 2002 1:24pm PDT

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- where did it say tech demo? : BadRespawn

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OMG, no posts from AbRASiON!

Apr 23, 2002 3:22pm PDT

OMG, no posts from AbRASiON! : h0rus

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ok wtf it is downloading a queue_file.htm instead of the movie

Apr 23, 2002 12:44pm PDT

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just got 375k from home to the seattle server. guess its not capped?

Apr 23, 2002 11:28am PDT

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looks like the T-1000 took a shit or something that water has no transparency

Apr 23, 2002 1:14pm PDT

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- Go out to a lake or something and tell me if you can see the bottom. : kablamoman

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Shogo ran pretty well, it wasn't until they started adding features to a really old engine did it start to get sloppy.

Apr 23, 2002 1:47pm PDT

Shogo ran pretty well, it wasn't until they started adding features to a really old engine did it start t... : crazywigga

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this "please disable popups" is incredibly annoying. if you want to show me an ad, whatever, show me an ad, but i'm surely not going to disable mozillas wonderful anti-popup tchnology just to use fileshack. There should be a better way to do this, without alienating so many readers.

Apr 23, 2002 12:57pm PDT

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This looks fairly good, but I think the water should have a hint of transparency in it as well (remember the dinosaur nvidia demo? Like that).

Not bad though. If it comes out around the same time as Doom III I feel that id will win overall with their lighting...of course I have no idea what the Jupiter engine's lighting capabilities are so basically I'm just talking out of my id fanboy ass here :)

Apr 23, 2002 12:46pm PDT

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"Notice the realistic, reflective water with wave emitters and a particle system at the base of the waterfall combined with the high detail trees in the background."

What is this, NOLF 2: Ansel Adams' Revenge?

Apr 23, 2002 12:45pm PDT

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"It also supports non-square areas--empowering the creation of more realistic-looking bodies of water."

wow! non square-areas! in a GAME! i thought everything was like Wolf3D!

demo looks gorgeous btw.

Apr 23, 2002 12:17pm PDT

"It also supports non-square areas--empowering the creation of more realistic-looking bodies of water." ... : needlez

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I can't wait to see the interaction with water!!!!!!!
(perhaps I should register with $hack and download the thing...

Apr 23, 2002 10:55am PDT

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wtf..i clicked on it and it says "invalid file format." Why does Windows Media player have a beef with AVI?

Apr 23, 2002 11:29am PDT

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Looks good enough to me. When is this game coming out? I loved NOLF and can't wait to play this one.

Apr 23, 2002 11:54am PDT

Looks good enough to me. When is this game coming out? I loved NOLF and can't wait to play this one. : TorValdeZ

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It's pretty but the terrain is quite low-poly. Anyway, even NOLF graphics were good enough for me, I can't wait for the sequel.

Apr 23, 2002 11:46am PDT

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if you watch the way the camera jerks around, it looks like they still have the ass low mouse sampling rate.

Apr 23, 2002 11:26am PDT

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So, looking at some headers while downloading the water-thingy, I noticed a funny smell...
ETag: "poop"
Steve must have a bad influence on his surroundings =)

Apr 23, 2002 11:23am PDT

So, looking at some headers while downloading the water-thingy, I noticed a funny smell... ETag: "poop" ... : nullspace

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what's supposed to happen after i login at fileshack? it isn't doing anything, just brings me back to the login page

Apr 23, 2002 11:18am PDT

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- so even though your cookie is set for the comments it asks you to login for fileshack? : Maarten Goldstein

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mmmm was maxing my t1 line. that water screams out "5fps with more than 2 enemies on your screen" - sorry, i don't buy it.

Apr 23, 2002 11:21am PDT

mmmm was maxing my t1 line. that water screams out "5fps with more than 2 enemies on your screen" - sorry... : Polish Sausage

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OMG OMG OMG! the water! too bad it has nothing to do with gameplay I suppose... but it is nice to see them working on graphics...Although it still looks to me as if the the terrain isn't equally upto par(who sees trees that are that straight? :P).

Apr 23, 2002 11:16am PDT

OMG OMG OMG! the water! too bad it has nothing to do with gameplay I suppose... but it is nice to see the... : Q-ball

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that is deadass, yo.

Apr 23, 2002 11:01am PDT

that is deadass, yo. : pupismyname

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I live in Seattle, and usually max my speed on Speakeasy servers (which is 55k) and I am getting about 12k now :(

Apr 23, 2002 10:51am PDT

I live in Seattle, and usually max my speed on Speakeasy servers (which is 55k) and I am getting about 12... : pun][sher

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Sweet looking water! So this is a jet ski racer?

Apr 23, 2002 10:42am PDT

Sweet looking water! So this is a jet ski racer? : fragasm

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