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  That's pretty impressive. I can't wait until we're getting these things. The shadow on the smoke was rea... : stelth
  • the water one was being rendered in stereo/3D that end, hence the distorted look when not viewing it with... : Toraz Chryx
• Pretty awesome. But keep in mind that those simulations are kept to a small area. Making a small area d... : CRasterImage
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  we dont even have fluid physics like they demoed years ago in games. i dont know why people get excited a... : spaceless
  • it's sorta getting there... dribs and drabs... eg, Dirt 2 in DX11 uses Directcompute to do water physics. : Toraz Chryx
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    Batman AA had a few neat touches when it came to paper and leaves flying about. : CRasterImage
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      I thought that was just bog standard particle physics, we've had that dumped into every other game since ... : nodebug
      • Well, it's all particle physics. Even the stuff in the clips. The papers and leaves in BAA interacted ... : CRasterImage
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        There was also a demo vid showing the improvement available if you had phyx-enabled video card. Better ... : CRasterImage
        • and the physics fog. : Toraz Chryx
        • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luSAnouAFJs : Toraz Chryx
        • Ah yeah, I remember the fog and the cape, that all looked rather neat. I didn't realise the paper and lea : nodebug
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  2000 watt powersupply here we come! : gyokuro
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    DUAL 2000 watt power supplies with a double line conversion unit for each : spaceless
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      WHAT DID YOU SAY? I CANT HEAR YOU WITH THIS NEW QUAD SLI NVIDIA SETUP RUNNING! RRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrreeeeeee... : gyokuro
      • shit i got ceramic bearings on my fans : spaceless
      • Powered by vuvuzelas. : MrBig0
• that's some amazing stuff; but I think it's going to be a long time before we see stuff like that in game... : Modulus
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  honestly, i don't think either of them look very good.
  the green smoke doesn't look like it moves right and the water doesn't crest and break right.
  but what do i know, i don't do particle sims for living, just hobbies :(

  Sep 22, 2010 10:12pm PDT
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  honestly, i don't think either of them look very good. the green smoke doesn't look like it moves right ... : ibrokn
  • the water looks more like a cloth sim rather than water too : synapse19
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  can mess around with some fire now: http://users.skynet.be/fquake/ : 60days
  • i like the flames on the second one more but the smoke is much better from the first method : spaceless
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  Anyone remember Epic touting a rocket flying through smoke and curling it in one of the UT's a few years ... : Madwacker
  • Yeah, I saw that. I wonder what happened to that effect. : Toraz Chryx
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    A few years? I think it was in the 1990s. : vx2o
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      No, it was in the buildup for Unreal Tournament 2004 IIRC, definitely wasn't in the 90's : Toraz Chryx
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        I remember seeing it way before even multi-core CPUs came to market. : vx2o
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          So 2002-2003 fits that perfectly? : Toraz Chryx
          • Agree with you, I remember that smoke quite well, it was in the last 6 years at most - he did it slightly... : abrasion
          • Could be, yeah. : vx2o
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  CCP's Carbon tech use of Nvidia's Apex looked cool too. We can't get this stuff into games soon enough... : Dr_Cube
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    Well, the 128 player thing still has networking hurdles to face. On top of the large number of objects t... : CRasterImage
    • The return of LAN play!!! With...128 friends...oh wait. : Dr_Cube
• Nvidia had a similar paper on water at SCA this year. There's a demo as well. The effects are much nicer ... : Nali4Freedom
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  We've been watching demos like this for over 5 years now. : baconisgod
  • these are being done real time on a single GPU with a lot more particles. : mark076
  • yeah, but they've improved a bit http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3455380236618940515# : filthysock
• When GTA: 1960's comes out we'll have realistically rendered bongs. : The Wilhelm Scream
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  Still 10 years away. : ant_hillbilly
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    Four years. : vx2o
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      Two years. : CrustaR
      • Not before Maxwell (2013), I'd say. : vx2o
• The problem is this. Or, maybe it is better to say: The reason we haven't been seeing more of this is: : CRasterImage
• Better video: http://livesmooth.istreamplanet.com/nvidia100921/ Starts at 17:20. : vx2o
• The shadows are wrong on the first one: watch the ground under the gold dummy, the shadows from the smoke... : jcupitt