Elder Scrolls IV Q&A

Damn these screenshots look like a nightmare for my current system. Damn PC Gaming is killing me. I'm going to have to upgrade for Morrowind again!

Quote:

"Most games by comparison look flat, and don't have vibrant color and shadows. Morrowind especially. So we do a lot of looking at how CG movies portray sunlight, and how the human eye and camera lens' work and use the pixel-shaders on the video cards to do a simple version of that."


This sounds great. I'm not sure how many game developers have actually researched into how the human eye views light (it could be one of those 'duh' statements throughout the industry however).

It's all about FOOLING the human brain. If you think about it, video games are just one big ILLUSION. VIRTUAL reality. It holds no physical properties other than the CD those 1's and 0's are burned into (and with STEAM we don't even have that).

If these people play their cards right and don't release this game before it's finished (Morrowind was never finished IMO), then these people could possibly be at the forefront of, what could eventually be, one of the greatest virtual worlds ever created.

Good stuff :-P

WHERE IS FALLOUT 3!?!?

Yeah I just got the game of the year edition of Morrowind. I find most other games are getting a little too shallow compared to it.

anyone got an eta on this game? the article didn't say, just wanted to know if there were any rumors floating around

"Todd Vaughn: I can assure you those shots are 100% real, taken right from playing the game and will look even better in the final product, as there are effects we're working on now that haven't been shown yet. The main effects we use include normal mapping and specular mapping, which are becoming commonplace in games. We also use parallax mapping, which is kind of like displacement mapping. This allows surfaces to appear truly 3D in a pixel-shader, even though they are flat."

Wow, nice.