Want a style of what ‘next-gen’ graphics are going to appear like? Well, the intelligent of us over at Square Enix’s Luminous Productions studio (the wizards wot made Final Fantasy XV) have simply launched a model new tech demo known as ‘Back Stage’ doing simply that. Made in collaboration with Nvidia, this real-time ray tracing demo isn’t associated to any explicit game per se (or at the least none that we all know of), however its depiction of a lady having a chill second doing her make-up within the mirror positive is a technical feast for the previous eyeballs. Here’s the demo in full:
Running on the studio’s personal Luminous Engine (the identical one wot powered FFXV as properly) and a single RTX 2080 Ti graphics card, in accordance with Nvidia, Back Stage makes use of a extra superior type of the trail tracing tech utilized in each Quake II RTX and Minecraft.
Path tracing, in case you’ve forgotten, is kind of like an excellent fancier model of ray tracing, utilizing a single computing algorithm to render every little thing from shadows and reflections to ambient occlusion and diffuse world illumination lighting quite than doing all of it individually. Nvidia say path tracing can be going to be an enormous a part of Luminous’ engine going ahead, too, which ought to hopefully imply we’d see this sort of tech make its method into the following Final Fantasy game.
“Back Stage is a showcase demo of our work to answer the question, ‘How can you use ray tracing in a next generation game?’” Luminous’ new studio head Takeshi Aramaki says. “GeForce RTX graphics cards have power beyond our imagination, and with Nvidia’s technology even real-time path tracing has become a reality. Together with Luminous Engine and RTX technology, we have taken one more step forward towards the kind of beautiful and realistic game that we strive to create.”
Or possibly it received’t be used for the following Final Fantasy game in any respect. After all, my most important takeaway from this demo is that it’s surprisingly right down to earth in comparison with the opposite tech demos Square Enix have carried out up to now – anybody keep in mind Witch – Chapter 0 Cry or Agni’s Philosophy? Indeed, the music alone simply makes me assume this might be good for a brand new Life is Strange game (which Dontnod made, after all, however Square Enix revealed).
In truth, going again to look at that Agni’s Philosophy demo once more (which left me equally floored and determined for the brand new Final Fantasy when it was initially proven off again within the heady days of 2012) reveals a cameo by FFXV’s old King Regis himself. Or at the least a bloke that appears exceptionally like Noctis’ dad, anyway. In Back Stage, the one particular person we truly see is the principle make-up woman, and personally she doesn’t actually strike me as a future Final Fantasy character.
Still, no matter Luminous finally ends up utilizing it for, the tech itself positive is purrrrdy. I imply, it loses a few realism factors just because nobody of their proper thoughts would ever do their make-up in such a darkish room, however her eyes are simply pretty. No uncanny valley right here, no sir. And these little tiny facial expressions! And that lipstick! Ooofff… I believe I have to go and lie down for a bit.
