Source Engine Upgrade on its way.

[Tequila]

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2005/12/09/source_film_effects/1.html

Demonstrated here on Day of Defeat.

Now I don't know about you, but after HDR, I didn't expect the next 'big things' in engine capability - namely Depth of Field and Motion Blur - to enter the mainstream so soon. Valve have been beavering away in the background it seems, a logical solution to the 'broken promises' that frequently plague them.

Obviously this could all be construed as a bit much when you need the speed and untarnished vision to do well on the multiplayer battlefield, but for the casual gamer, for machinima, and for future single-player work (Aftermath, for instance, and hopefully for our mods too) this is manna from heaven.

I just hope performance-wise having at least a few of these activated will be viable.

[Skjalg]

I wish they'd concentrate more on fixing present bugs instead of adding more :/

Yeah i know, everything they do is wrong bla bla bla...

[Bic-B@ll]

sort of neat i guess, though it just looks like theyre going to make everything blury as fuck. i really like that color correction though

the noise thing is the worst idea ever.

[Izuno]

man that's a long, thorough article. gonna take time to read it all...

nice movies though.

[RD]

i think it will be awesome

[st0lve]

Yeah, its gonna make source even better

But yeah, tweak out the silly bugs and shit.

And steal some netcode from a old game, like Rogue Spear, cause modern netcodes SUCK.

[ReNo]

After playing PGR3 in a shop today, I'm a firm believer that well done motion blur is the shit. It makes such a difference!

[insta]

Awesome. The movie is very impressive. Funny to think it's all ingame.

[The Postman]

I wonder if they'll be able to make the content creation pipeline not suck.

[TomWithTheWeather]

I wonder if they'll be able to make the content creation pipeline not suck.

That's what they should be working on...

[Grinwhrl]

Looks really cool. But i dont know if i would want to play like that all of the time.

[von*ferret]

importing content and getting away from the fucking pre compiled crap, or at least start getting away from the compiling. Kinda hard now that the engine is complete but thats my hint saying "abandon source and make soemthing that isn't so old."

[JynxDaddy]

The Film Grain sucks, everything else is rad.

I'm interested in knowing how the depth of field is controlled, I can see it being annoying. I like looking at my gun and seeing it in all its glory, not blurred. the game doesn't know what part of the screen we are looking at.

Also, in the article it says the film grain effect makes it more realistic because that's how film from that era would look. I think it's more immersive for it to look really pretty, real life didn't have film grain back then, so your view point of an axis/allies soldier shouldn't either.

[ginsengavenger]

Saw this earlier, pretty damn sweet. I'd love to play awhile with all of it except the scratches/hairs.

[kleinluka]

looks really nice. but yea, hopefully the tools won't suck...