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Water In BioShock

by Maarten Goldstein, Apr 30, 2007 1:09pm PDT

Related Topics – BioShock, The Scourge Project, Beijing 2008

2K's Cult of Rapture website has been updated, offering a Q&A on the water effects in the game. There's also a related movie, which you can find on FileShack.

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These are shaders, and if a room gets flooded it's scripted. Pretty much all games these days use shaders for water. Still impressive though.

Physics based water/fluids which require computations more comparable to 8 core processors and 3 physix cards are another story and are the next big thing. Even that Ageia vid is just a tip of the iceberg, a minor example.

May 01, 2007 5:37am PDT

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These are shaders, and if a room gets flooded it's scripted. Pretty much all games these days use shaders... : deadlycookie
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- Btw, I think that Ageia needs to write a demo engine that utilizes all physics effects at once, water/flu... : deadlycookie

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I dont think the water in this game is anything other than a decent shader effect. Put in actual volumetric physical water then I might get excited.

Apr 30, 2007 2:50pm PDT

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I dont think the water in this game is anything other than a decent shader effect. Put in actual volumetr... : headbone
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  I'm with you on that, they keep oohing and ahhing over the water, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually... : AgentPothead
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    Then you can care because that's exactly what it does, as is clearly written in this interview. :) ocea : pillzer
- I saw the demo at E3 and it is easily the most realistic water ever in a game. It's truly incredible to s... : oatmela

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I think the logical conclusion from this interview is that the water will have limited "interactivity" with the player beyond the usual stuff that we are used to in a game, i.e. buoyancy of objects, putting out fires, electrical conduction. Big deal.

However, from seeing this new water video, it is easy to see that visually speaking the water effects will be the best real time water effects ever implemented in a video game. Limited interactivity aside, you have to admit that the water looks gorgeous.

Apr 30, 2007 6:19pm PDT

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I think the logical conclusion from this interview is that the water will have limited "interactivity" wi... : kl899
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  Crysis has some amazing water. I dunno, the water in this game seems good, but not spectacular. It's j... : famine101
  - Then again, maybe I haven't seen everything yet =) : famine101

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All this hype for the water, it sure as hell better make me wet.

Apr 30, 2007 8:33pm PDT

All this hype for the water, it sure as hell better make me wet. : biofrog

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That they can even make water that looks this good is a huge step forward 'cause, when you think about it... what does water mostly do but sit there and look pretty?

Apr 30, 2007 6:30pm PDT

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That they can even make water that looks this good is a huge step forward 'cause, when you think about it... : Jobos
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- That was a reply to someone who wondered whether the water 'did' anything or not. : Jobos