Where is cinema 2.0?

[TheBuzzer]

Well the benchmark of the new ati card are out, but they can't play crysis that well still so how are they going to render Hollywood quality scenes that are interactive at real time?

 

[killerbobjr]

They don't. The Cinema 2.0 demo used a lot of slight-of-hand tricks (IMHO) to make things look "cinematic." Prebaked lighting on the buildings and environment, lots of shiny textures on the composited characters (diffusion and translucency is hard to do for RT), and lots of camera motion to cover up the the "tells" in the scene.

 

[sethk]

Nice bit of marketing though. A lot of people not into GPUs sent me links to the Cinema 2.0 video going 'wow, this new ATI card must be awesome'! Not that it isn't, but that's the kind of reaction usually reserved for the fastest card on the block, not just the best performance/$ card.

 

[TheBuzzer]

I wonder why they would claim hollywood quality was today when clearly it is still like what the people in the video said, ten years away